Month: February 2025

You can hardly be blamed for thinking that “Peter Pan: The Hit Broadway Musical” just may be some of the dustiest words in theater history. Peter Pan? Today? Really? But the Broadway national tour has been zhuzhed up just right from its 1954 origin, with sound judgment and even restraint … mostly … and the themes and pulse of the musical are still there, as resonant as when J.M. Barrie first mounted the play in 1904. The “Peter Pan” that is playing at the Kravis Center in West... Read More

Elective surgeries at Broward Health’s four hospitals were postponed this week as unpaid anesthesiologists walked off the job and financial problems deepened for Anesco, the systemwide anesthesia provider. Patients with planned operations such as hip replacements and hernia repairs were told their surgeries would be delayed. The hospitals — Broward Health Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale, Broward Health North in Pompano Beach, Broward Health Coral Springs and Broward Health Imperial... Read More

Today is Friday, Feb. 14, the 45th day of 2025. There are 320 days left in the year. This is Valentine’s Day. Today in history: On Feb. 14, 2018, a gunman identified as a former student opened fire with a semi-automatic rifle at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, killing 17 people in the nation’s deadliest school shooting since the Sandy Hook Elementary School attack in Newtown, Connecticut, more than five years earlier. (Nikolas Cruz pleaded guilty to murder in... Read More

The NFL star and Olympic gold medalist sprinter will settle their dispute in the coming months. Subscribe to continue reading this article. Already subscribed? To login in, click here. Originally Published: February 13, 2025 at 11:37 PM EST ... Read More

Federal law enforcement agents arrested a man Wednesday in connection with a shooting in a Delray Beach neighborhood last week that killed a homeless man. Janel Tassy, 28, of Delray Beach, is accused of shooting to death James Apollonio, 54, in the Rainbow Homes neighborhood, near the 1200 block of Southwest 22nd Avenue, about 12:30 a.m. Feb. 3. Tassy was arrested Wednesday by U.S. Marshals in Miami, the city said in a news release Thursday evening. Apollonio was seen on surveillance video... Read More

After about 282 rodent droppings were found in a restaurant’s kitchen, an employee removed them — along with equipment and utensils soiled by the rodent droppings — and then handled clean equipment, utensils and containers of food without washing their hands. Meanwhile, about 68 live flies were seen landing in various areas of another restaurant, including “on clean plates and serving platters in the ware-washing room.” These were just some of the violations that forced the state... Read More

Two weeks after an 80-year-old woman was killed in a hit-and-run next to her Oakland Park home, her husband and son are asking the public for help finding the driver. Subscribe to continue reading this article. Already subscribed? To login in, click here. Originally Published: February 13, 2025 at 5:14 PM EST ... Read More

Big Lots, the overstock retail chain that’s currently liquidating all of its stores in the United States, unveiled a list of locations that would survive under the Big Lots brand name if the bankruptcy court approves. Twelve of the 200 stores on the survival list are in Florida. Originally Published: February 13, 2025 at 4:40 PM EST ... Read More

Broward Health and Memorial Healthcare announced Thursday that they will partner to expand primary care into the Broward County neighborhoods most in need. The two large health systems will use ZIP code data and heat maps from emergency department visits to their hospitals to target the construction of new primary care locations and determine where five mobile outreach vans will make weekly visits. Shane Strum, CEO of Broward Health and interim CEO of Memorial Healthcare System, said the... Read More

A call of a shooting in West Park ended with Broward Sheriff’s deputies and officers from multiple other departments chasing a car into Miami-Dade County, shutting down I-95 lanes for hours. Originally Published: February 13, 2025 at 3:08 PM EST ... Read More