The minimum wage in Florida will rise Jan. 1, 2019, from $8.25 to $8.46, in accordance with a 2004 ballot amendment indexing the wage to inflation increases. For tipped workers, it will climb from $5.23 to $5.44.
Louis C.K.’s comeback plans may be derailed after the comedian, who admitted to widespread sexual misconduct last year, makes fun of Parkland shooting survivors in a comedy set.
The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office says someone trashed the Florida Keys Country Club’s golf course in Marathon over the weekend. The vandal or vandals damaged several greens and stole a dozen of the course’s flag sticks.
The family of Orlando resident Jose Antonio Reyes Bermudez, who died after being shot and crashing in a car he allegedly stole from a South Beach car wash, says little about the incident makes sense to them.
Shuttered since 2014 due to an arsenic contamination, Chapman Field Park in Coral Gables may once again become the site of baseball games come 2020. The county has outlined the first step of a plan to open up part of the park.
The separation of families at the U.S.-Mexico border, plans for a border wall and the death of two Guatemalan children who died while in Border Patrol custody were among the immigration-related news that dominated headlines in 2018.
A cult called the Raleians that believes in aliens announced in December 2002 they had cloned a human baby. The announcement was made at a Holiday Inn in Hollywood beach.
The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum named Hollywood’s Aimee Rubensteen its acquisitions curator to rescue and help preserve the evidence of the Holocaust from survivors and families in the South Florida area.
La Placita Puerto Rican restaurant will open New Year’s Day under literal controversy. Celebrity owners failed to get permission to paint it like a Puerto Rican flag. A petition hopes to save it.
Hialeah Police responded to a burglary at Barbarita’s Liquor on Dec. 31, 2018. Two of the five suspects remain at large. Anyone with information is asked to call Hialeah Police at 305-687-2525.
A bale of what’s suspected to be cocaine was found by a Keys fisherman in Islamorada Saturday morning. If it is cocaine, the 40- to 60-pound bale is worth from $473,000 to $761,000 wholesale.
A conservative student group at the University of Florida is suing the university in federal court after being denied funding to host conservative commentators on campus. The UF chapter of Young Americans for Freedom alleges discrimination.
Hialeah Police responded to a burglary at Barbarita’s Liquor on Dec. 31, 2018. Two of the five suspects remain at large. Anyone with information is asked to call Hialeah Police at 305-687-2525.
