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A J.P. Taravella High School student is on life support after contracting COVID-19, her family said. Paulina Velasquez, a 15-year-old sophomore and member of Church By the Glades in Coral Springs, tested positive for the virus on July 11, according to a GoFundMe page created by her family, who are raising money for medical expenses.

In an unsettling sign of the ongoing prevalence of QAnon conspiracy theories, a survivor of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida has shared that his own father believes that the event was an hoax and has accused him of being part of the “false-flag operation.” According to the survivor’s Reddit post, his father saw the video of Marjorie Taylor Greene harassing fellow survivor David Hogg, and that was enough for the father to fall down the rabbit hole.

A teen who claims to be a survivor of the high school shooting in Parkland, Florida is being traumatized all over again — by his father, a QAnon believer who says the massacre was just a hoax. The student, who recently graduated, said his dad’s conspiracy theories, which surfaced after...

LANTANA — One person is dead after a domestic shooting at a residence Monday night, according to Lantana police. Officers responded to a shooting near on the 300 block of South 11th Street, near West Pine Street and south of Lantana Road, just after 9:30 p.m. Monday. Investigators learned a...

A survivor of the 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida says his father found QAnon and now believes that the shooting was a hoax. The 18-year-old graduate who was among the last class at the school during the shooting, revealed his dad is an anti-masker and “turned to the internet to find like-minded people which led him to QAnon,” according to VICE News. He says his fathers views began a “couple months into the pandemic with the whole anti-lockdown protests.”

Florida's governor on Monday threatened state legislative action to prevent face masks from being mandated in schools throughout the Sunshine State. During a COVID-19 roundtable discussion in Tallahassee, Gov. Ron DeSantis once again reiterated his firm stance that school districts should not impose mask mandates on students and staff members, even as coronavirus cases surge due to the highly contagious Delta variant.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) — A crash on the Florida Turnpike has all lanes blocked and traffic backed up. The crash happened in the southbound lanes just before Exit 99. No other information was made available. Seek an alternate route. Check back for updates.