Broward County Public Schools Superintendent Howard Hepburn held a news conference Monday afternoon to discuss school safety and recent school threats.

The expansion of the cellphone usage ban for public schools in Broward County took effect Monday.

The Broward County School Board on Tuesday voted to restrict cellphone usage for students on campus from beginning bell to end bell, beginning for the upcoming 2024-2025 school year.

The South Florida community gathered Saturday to celebrate the lives of the victims who were lost in the Parkland school shooting nearly six years ago.

Lawmakers entered the 1200 Building at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland Saturday morning for what will likely be the final time as it is set to be demolished next summer.

The Parkland school shooting prompted a widow and a mother to serve on Broward County’s school board. On Friday, the two women shared their experiences walking through the building where the massacre happened.

The Parkland school shooter’s defense abruptly rested their case on Wednesday, the morning after their witness introduced a causal connection between his crimes and his biological mother’s alcohol consumption.

The Uvalde, Texas school massacre has forced family members of the victims of the Parkland shooting to relive the horror of what happened at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School four years ago.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – After Debbi Hixon’s election win Tuesday night, there are now two family members of people who lost their lives at Marjory Stoneman Douglas who will be serving on the Broward School Board. But both of them want to make it clear: That association with MSD is not all they’re bringing to the board. Hixon, whose husband was killed in the Parkland mass shooting on Feb. 14, 2018, joins current board member Lori Alhadeff, who lost her 14-year-old daughter in the tragedy. “Being the wife of Chris, who was murdered at Marjory Stoneman Douglas, it gave me a stronger voice,” Hixon said. "The tragedy that happened at MSD and the loss of my daughter Alyssa definitely was the catalyst to make me want to be on the school board to make sure change happens and make school safety a top priority,” she said.

PEMBROKE PINES, Fla. – A campaign video for former Vice President Joe Biden has gone viral that features the son of one of the victims of the 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland. I’ll never forget the comfort that @JoeBiden brought Corey after he lost his dad in the Parkland shooting. pic.twitter.com/40Uy6mXyDd — Gabrielle Giffords (@GabbyGiffords) September 16, 2020The video, which features Biden comforting Corey Hixon, is now part of a campaign ad. After the Parkland tragedy, President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump also comforted families. They visited surviving Parkland victims, who were in the hospital a few days after the massacre.

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. – Debbi Hixon was a bundle of nerves waiting to see the 10-day makeover that had transformed her home. “That's my favorite picture of him," Debbi Hixon said, pointing to one. It's alive.”The couple had hoped to renovate the kitchen in the tiny South Florida home that Debbi Hixon grew up in. At school, Chris Hixon was known for helping maintenance crews set up before and after wrestling matches and for volunteering for just about everything. Every night before bed, Debbi Hixon said, she listens to the few voicemails from her husband that she saved on her phone.