Terry Spencer

September 24, 2021 | Daily Business Review

Several victims' relatives said the Surfside site where the 12-story Champlain Towers South once stood is hallowed ground.

By Terry Spencer

4 minute read

September 09, 2021 | Daily Business Review

Nikolas Cruz's attorneys have said he would plead guilty in exchange for a life sentence. Prosecutors have rejected that offer and are seeking the death penalty.

By Terry Spencer

3 minute read

August 30, 2021 | Daily Business Review

A state court judge ruled that Gov. Ron DeSantis' order, which gave parents the sole right to decide if their child wears a mask at school, is unconstitutional and cannot be enforced.

By Terry Spencer and Curt Anderson

5 minute read

August 11, 2021 | Daily Business Review

Nikolas Cruz's right to an impartial jury will be irrevocably harmed if certain evidence is revealed before jurors are seated, chief assistant public defender David Wheeler said.

By Terry Spencer

4 minute read

August 04, 2021 | Daily Business Review

Gov. Ron DeSantis said he expects hospitalizations to drop in the next couple weeks, asserting that the spike is seasonal as Floridians spend more time together indoors to escape the summer heat and humidity.

By Terry Spencer, Adriana Gomez Licon and Kelli Kennedy

5 minute read

August 02, 2021 | Daily Business Review

Prosecutors and defense attorneys agreed that the recording of New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft and other men allegedly engaging in massage parlor sex, which was ruled inadmissible at trial, was not part of the permanent court file and will be returned for destruction.

By Terry Spencer

3 minute read

July 27, 2021 | Daily Business Review

Terry McKirchy pleaded no contest to attempted murder for shaking 5-month-old Benjamin Dowling so severely that he suffered permanent brain damage and was sentenced to weekends in jail for three months and three years' probation.

By Terry Spencer

5 minute read

July 15, 2021 | Daily Business Review

Accused Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz, making his first in-person court appearance since before the pandemic, sat quietly in an orange jump suit and shackles during the 30-minute hearing over battery and assault charges stemming from the Broward County Jail altercation.

By Terry Spencer

3 minute read

June 14, 2021 | Daily Business Review

Timothy J. Wall, 55, had been making the threats for some time before he walked into a Publix in Royal Palm Beach, stalked his victims in the produce aisle before first shooting a grandmother and her 1-year-old grandson before killing himself, Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw and his detectives said.

By Terry Spencer

5 minute read

May 11, 2021 | Daily Business Review

Broward County Superintendent Robert Runcie's supporters have praised him for increasing the district's graduation rate, improving schools districtwide and reaching out to minority communities.

By Terry Spencer

3 minute read