It’s Thursday, August 15th and here are today’s top headlines from the newsroom of the South Florida Sun Sentinel. I’m Trevor Ontiveros. The 911 and police radio deficiencies exposed by the Parkland school shooting are finally being addressed, after years of squabbling among government agencies, officials said yesterday.

It’s Wednesday, August 14th and here are today’s top headlines from the newsroom of the South Florida Sun Sentinel. I’m Lynn Norris. Teen tennis sensation Coco Gauff will get a chance to try for an encore. The 15-year-old from Delray Beach received a wild-card entry yesterday for the U.S. Open’s main draw. It will be Gauff’s 2nd Grand Slam tournament. She made a magical run to the 4th round at Wimbledon last month after getting a wild card into the qualifying rounds there.

It’s Tuesday, August 13th and here are today’s top headlines from the newsroom of the South Florida Sun Sentinel. I’m Lynn Norris. Victims who challenged Jeffrey Epstein’s 2007 “sweetheart” deal to avoid federal prosecution urged a judge yesterday to rule in their favor after the sex offender’s sudden death in New York.

It’s Monday, August 12th and here are today’s top headlines from the newsroom of the South Florida Sun Sentinel. I’m Lynn Norris. Hundreds of thousands of South Florida students will be back in their classrooms this week for the beginning of a new school year. That means lots of school buses back on the roads, 20 miles per hour school zones slowing down traffic, students crossing busy streets, and police enforcing a new no-texting-while-driving law.

It’s Friday, August 9th, and here are today’s top headlines from the newsroom of the South Florida Sun Sentinel. I’m Trevor Ontiveros. Hurricane season may produce more dangerous storms this year than originally predicted, said federal forecasters yesterday. Conditions have become more favorable for storms going into the peak of the season. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration increased its forecast for hurricane season to 5 to 9 hurricanes, up from 4 to 8.

It’s Thursday, August 8th, and here are today’s top headlines from the newsroom of the South Florida Sun Sentinel. I’m Trevor Ontiveros. The daycare van where a 2-year-old died had a safety alarm that was turned off by the driver, show county records released yesterday. “The driver did not follow the correct procedures for operating the alarm," says the report, which does not name the driver.

It’s Wednesday, August 7th and here are today’s top headlines from the newsroom of the South Florida Sun Sentinel. I’m Kyle Sauerhoefer. Gov. Ron DeSantis wants state police to conduct an independent investigation into the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office’s handling of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex abuse case and incarceration about a decade ago.

It’s Tuesday, August 6th, and here are today’s top headlines from the newsroom of the South Florida Sun Sentinel. I’m Trevor Ontiveros. July turned out to be the hottest month in recorded history, continuing a decade in which climate records have repeatedly been smashed. The average temperature in July exceeded by more than 2 degrees the pre-industrial average, according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service, an agency of the European Union.

It’s Monday, August 5th and here are today’s top headlines from the newsroom of the South Florida Sun Sentinel. I’m Mike Scott. 8 years after shrinking its staff, Fort Lauderdale still doesn’t have the workers it needs to be sure a water line failure doesn’t leave the city dry the way it did last month.

Good morning, the South Florida weather forecast calls thunderstorms throughout the day and evening. The high is 86 and the overnight low is 79. Here are today’s top headlines from the newsroom of the South Florida Sun Sentinel for Friday, August 2nd. I’m Trevor Ontiveros. Heavy rain from a passing tropical wave will drench South Florida over the next couple of days. And the impact will be worsened in coastal neighborhoods by the simultaneous arrival of unusually high tides.