Author: Broward County Public Schools

It was once a dumping ground for toxic incinerator ash. And now it’s for sale. For 56 years, Hollywood has been the owner of the sprawling 30.5-acre parcel that housed an incinerator from 1958 to 1973. The long contaminated site — once known as the Hollywood Incinerator Ash Dump — could be transformed into a top-notch industrial zone or a bustling neighborhood with hundreds of apartments surrounded by shops and restaurants. It all depends on who buys the land. Commissioners are... Read More

It was once a dumping ground for toxic incinerator ash. And now it’s for sale. For 56 years, Hollywood has been the owner of the sprawling 30.5-acre parcel that housed an incinerator from 1958 to 1973. The long-contaminated site — once known as the Hollywood Incinerator Ash Dump — could be transformed into a top-notch industrial zone or a bustling neighborhood with hundreds of apartments surrounded by shops and restaurants. It all depends on who buys the land. Commissioners are... Read More

Accusing former Broward County Sheriff’s Deputy Scot Peterson of neglect during last year’s mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, a House Republican proposed a bill Tuesday to try to strip Peterson of his benefits in the Florida Retirement System. Rep. Spencer Roach, R-North Fort Myers, filed the bill (HB 1091) for consideration during the legislative session that starts March 5. Peterson, who was the school resource officer at Marjory Stoneman Douglas, has drawn... Read More

For the second straight day, Parkland dad Andrew Pollack sat across the table Tuesday from one of the men he believes is responsible for failing to stop Nikolas Cruz from killing 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School last year. This time it was former school resource officer Scot Peterson, the Broward sheriff’s deputy who stayed outside the building while Cruz went on a rampage inside. Peterson was denounced as a coward and resigned in disgrace after the shooting. On Tuesday he... Read More

The National Transportation Safety Board won’t be investigating a fiery fatal crash of a Tesla over the weekend, the agency said Tuesday. The safety board is expected to issue reports this year on other crashes or fires involving Tesla cars that happened in Mountain View, Culver City and Lake Forest, all in California, and a 2018 accident in Fort Lauderdale, where two young men died. A physician and father of five was killed Sunday afternoon when he lost control of his 2016 Tesla Model S... Read More

With a commitment to addressing the impacts of climate change, Noah Valenstein was approved Tuesday by the Florida Cabinet to remain as the state’s top environmental official. The unanimous vote by the Cabinet — Attorney General Ashley Moody, Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried and Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis — supported Gov. Ron DeSantis’ recommendation to keep Valenstein as secretary of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. Former Gov. Rick Scott first... Read More

XXXTentacion’s month-old son Gekyume was huddled in his mom Jenesis Sanchez’s lap as Sanchez made her first public appearance, in a TV interview with WPLG Ch. 10, since giving birth to the late Broward County rapper’s baby. Born at West Boca Medical Center on Jan. 26, the baby was mostly covered up during the Monday TV interview — but what’s believed to the first publicly released photo of little Gekyume was unveiled on Instagram on Tuesday morning. Posted by XXXTentacion’s... Read More

A dispute about luggage at Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport led to a scuffle that sent two deputies to the hospital for treatment and led to the arrest of two travelers, officials said. It happened about 8 a.m. Tuesday when deputies were called to a disturbance on a Delta Airlines flight, said sheriff’s spokeswoman Gina Carter. “A couple was engaged in a dispute over their luggage with Delta staff,” she said. “When deputies arrived, the couple began a physical... Read More

An ongoing workplace dispute escalated into a charge of attempted murder for an employee accused of using his car to try to run down a co-worker and then threatening to “shoot up” the Pompano Beach business where they worked. On Feb. 14, a worker at Great Vacations of Florida, a firm that works on promotional events for the travel industry, told supervisors that Rolando N. Sagaro, 28, had been insulting him and threatening to fight, a Broward Sheriff’s Office arrest report said. At the... Read More

Donald Samuels, a former chairman of the Broward School Board who devoted his career and spare time to education, died Sunday. He was 80. Samuels served on the School Board for 16 years, three times as chairman, and considered his work for Broward County schools to be among his proudest achievements, said his daughter, Jodi Samuels Shir. “His life was being on the School Board,” Shir said. “It made him so successful and happy.” His full-time job was as an administrator in... Read More