John Maines

In this frame grab from video provided by WPLG-TV, students from the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., evacuate the school following a shooting on Feb. 14, 2018.

Timeline: Months of warning signs before Florida school shooting

August 22, 2019 at 7:54 a.m.

Each day since the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, more revelations emerge about agencies that were warned about Nikolas Cruz but failed to act. Most recently: the Broward Sheriff's Office....

Disaster, politics go hand in hand

August 18, 2019 at 8:14 p.m.

Assistance designed to help those struck by disaster has also become a tool for politicians to bring home prized federal dollars and a windfall to residents in some of the...

‘There’s got to be some serious fraud’

August 18, 2019 at 8:42 p.m.

The summer of 2003 should have been a boom time for appliance repairs and sales. After all, residents of Cuyahoga County told the federal government that 28,112 washers and dryers...

Agency paid out hundreds of millions to people who were untouched by disaster

August 18, 2019 at 8:13 p.m.

The federal government's mishandling of the Hurricane Katrina catastrophe is only the latest bungling in a national disaster response system that for years has been fraught with waste and fraud....

FEMA’s storm-related burials arouse skepticism in Florida

August 22, 2021 at 6:06 p.m.

Florida officially recorded 123 fatalities from last year's hurricanes, but the federal government has paid funeral expenses for at least 315 deaths, including those of a man who shot himself...

FEMA aid for storm paid for too many funerals, figures show

March 24, 2020 at 4:07 a.m.

Florida officially recorded 123 fatalities from last year's hurricanes, but the federal government has paid funeral expenses for at least 315 deaths, including those of a man who shot himself...

Records detail how FEMA was cheated on hurricane claims

August 18, 2019 at 8:07 p.m.

Miranda Woodard moved out of her south Miami-Dade County home before Hurricane Frances hit last fall but still collected $12,359 from the federal government for damages she claimed at her...

Daniel Bellegarde, rear, leaves federal court in Miami with two others on Wednesday after 14 Miami-Dade County residents were indicted on fraud charges in connection with hurricane damage claims.

14 in Miami-Dade indicted in FEMA fraud scandal

August 18, 2019 at 8:07 p.m.

Federal authorities charged 14 Miami-Dade County residents with fraud Wednesday for claiming damage from Hurricane Frances to collect disaster assistance. Three are accused of collecting money using addresses where they...

Bought by FEMA Yaszma Solomon, 3, watches television in her Opa-Locka apartment on a set her mom, Kim Harris, said she purchased with her FEMA check to replace a set damaged by the storm.

Miami-Dade cleans up on FEMA aid

August 18, 2019 at 8:05 p.m.

Government aid for Hurricane Frances bought Miami-Dade County residents rooms full of furniture, new wardrobes and thousands of appliances, including microwaves, refrigerators and sewing machines, even though the brunt of...

MANY DISQUALIFIED VOTES IN MINORITY AREAS

August 20, 2021 at 6:23 p.m.

A disproportionate number of rejected presidential votes in South Florida came from African-American and Caribbean neighborhoods, an analysis of election data shows. One-third of the disqualified votes--22,807 in all--were concentrated...

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