The South Florida Roundup

Antwan Johnson, a guard at the Miami-Dade Regional Juvenile Detention Center, was arrested as he was getting ready to go to work Monday morning. A grand jury charged Johnson with encouraging inmates to beat up other inmates, including 17-year-old Elord Revolte. He died in 2015 when more than a dozen detainees jumped him – allegedly urged by Johnson. The practice is called honey-bunning – bribing teens in juvenile lock-up with sweets or other enticements to carry out physical violence on other

Commuting in South Florida apparently takes herculean patience and resilience to bouts of “traffic trauma.” ApartmentList.com released a report showing a share of commuters in Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties travel at least 90 minutes to get to work. South Florida joins a national trend – dubbed a “supercommute” – that’s plaguing other cities, including New York and Washington, D.C. The debate over transportation seems perennial in South Florida. This week, Miami-Dade County

Teachers nationwide are protesting their paychecks. Educators in Arizona voted to walk out, joining similar efforts in Oklahoma, West Virginia and Kentucky. Teachers are speaking up at the same time that students around the country are mobilizing against gun violence. Thousands of public school students across the country planned to walk out on Friday in remembrance of the 19th anniversary of the Columbine High School shooting that killed 13 people in 1999. Read More: Marjory Stoneman Douglas

Kimson Green, a sophomore at Northwestern Senior High School about to be inducted into the National Honor Society, was shot and killed on Sunday, April 7. According to police, gunfire erupted while Green was talking with friends in front of an apartment building in Liberty City. On Tuesday, hundreds of Northwestern students walked out and marched to protest gun violence. Teachers and staff joined as they walked through the housing project where the shooting happened. Read More: Miami

Students at Florida International University made a somber return to campus this week after spring break. They prayed at vigils and walked to a memorial erected near the site of last week’s pedestrian bridge collapse. READ MORE: Campuswide Vigil At FIU Honors Bridge Collapse Victims In the aftermath of the recovery, local and national officials are trying to piece together what could have caused the collapse. Miami-Dade Police and the National Transportation Safety Board are conducting separate

The pedestrian bridge at Florida International University 's Modesto Maidique Campus was touted as a marvel for traffic-burdened Southwest Eighth Street. An average of 66,500 cars a day crossed the intersection with Southwest 109th Avenue in 2016. Last weekend, the $14.2 million project was installed. By 2019, the cable-supported bridge would link the city of Sweetwater, where about 4,000 students live, and the school’s main campus across the street. These were the architectural renderings of

Real estate in Miami-Dade County has ebbed and flowed according to the waters bordering it – the tenet of location, location, location. The tide has since turned, though. The city is looking upward, building condos that tower above the ocean. But the supply of waterfront property is eroding. This has led some real estate developers to buy condo buildings, tear them down and replace them with something bigger and newer. The process is called condo termination . Not all South Floridians are

The first Broward Sheriff's deputies who arrived at Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 14 were told not to confront the gunman. According to a dispatch log reviewed by the Miami Herald , the sheriff’s captain who was first in charge of the scene told officers to set up around the building. The Broward Sheriff's Office neither confirmed nor denied that the order was given. BSO has said deputies are trained to confront active shooters, following nationwide procedure. Throughout the week,

The shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School has developed into a narrative of missed warning signs. Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel announced the latest admission last weeks. The school resource officer on duty Scot Peterson did not enter the building where alleged shooter Nikolas Cruz had opened fire. Peterson heard the shooting and rushed to the building. But he decided to wait outside for four minutes. The shooting lasted about six minutes. According to officials, Peterson was