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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — They engaged in the obligatory, predebate handshake. But when the TV cameras went on Tuesday night, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio and U.S. Rep. Val Demings, his challenger, engaged in a heated and aggressive debate, repeatedly shredding each other with descriptions like “lie” and “crazy.”

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A Delray Beach firefighter walked into an apartment, looked at a man’s body, determined he was dead and walked out, records show. But when workers tasked with removing the body came an hour and 19 minutes later, they were in for a shock: The man was…

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The state of Florida spent more than $2 million prosecuting and then trying — but ultimately failing — to obtain a death sentence for the man who shot and killed 17 victims at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, according to the Broward State Attorney’s Office.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The deliberation room where 12 jurors decided the fate of confessed mass shooter Nikolas Cruz may have been a crime scene itself — a juror told prosecutors she was threatened by a fellow juror during deliberations.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The deliberation room where 12 jurors decided the fate of confessed mass shooter Nikolas Cruz may have been a crime scene itself — a juror told prosecutors she was threatened by a fellow juror during deliberations.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The deliberation room where 12 jurors decided the fate of confessed mass shooter Nikolas Cruz may have been a crime scene itself — a juror says she was threatened during deliberations, and prosecutors want the claim investigated.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A Broward County jury showed mercy Thursday to a heartless killer who didn’t know the meaning of the word as he stalked the hallways of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School more than four years ago, viciously ending the lives of 17 innocent people.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — It has been 1,702 days since they last looked into the eyes of their child, their spouse, but the families of 17 students and staff killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018 finally got their moment of reckoning.

Fort Lauderdale (United States) (AFP) - A US jury on Thursday rejected the death penalty and backed life imprisonment for Nikolas Cruz, who shot and killed 17 people at a Florida high school, in a sentence that shocked and angered some relatives of the victims.