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HOLLYWOOD — A man dressed as Spider-Man attacked and robbed a woman in Hollywood about two hours after he allowed her to take his picture because she liked his outfit, police said. About 11 p.m. Monday officers responded to a 911 call regarding a possible robbery near Dixieana Street and Federal Highway, according to Hollywood Police. Advertisement A 58-year-old woman told police a man riding a bicycle and dressed in a Spider-Man outfit hit her in the head with a blunt object and... Read More

Expand Broward Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer listens to arguments during a hearing in the penalty phase of the trial of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooter at the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale on Tuesday, July 12, 2022. (Mike Stocker / South Florida Sun Sentinel) Here are updates from Day 27 in the sentencing trial of confessed Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz, 23; a jury will decide if he will be executed or sentenced to life in prison without parole. He pleaded... Read More

A 25-year-old Sunrise man was one of three gored by bulls on Monday in the fifth bull run at the annual San Fermín Festival in Pamplona, Spain. Photos from the event show the man, identified as M.T. by the Navarra regional government, dressed in the traditional red-and-white uniform for the festival, his hand gripping the fence of a bullring in an attempt to flee from one of the charging animals. Other participants were able to leap over a barricade and to safety before a bull could make... Read More

More than 40 years after an unidentified woman was found dead in the Hillsboro Canal in southern Palm Beach County, cold case detectives are still trying to find out who she is. The Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office says the woman was a murder victim and had been floating in the canal near the Loxahatchee Refuge west of U.S. 441 for several days before she was found on June 23, 1980. Decomposition made her unidentifiable when police found her, according to the National Missing and Unidentified... Read More

A string of one-star Google reviews began to pepper Little Haiti restaurant Boia De’s profile last week, before an ominous email pinged owner Luciana Giangrandi’s phone. “Negative feedback about your establishment has been left by us. And will appear in the future, one review a day,” it read in part. “We sincerely apologize for our actions, and would not want to harm your business, but we have no other choice.” Advertisement Send us a $75 gift card, it demanded, “and we... Read More

Perhaps a sign of a new conservative influence in this year’s Palm Beach County School Board races, two campaigns made a stop this weekend at the West Palm Beach Gun and Knife Show. One of those candidates also has a campaign flyer promoting a “Target Practice Defense Shooting Clinic” at a gun range in Okeechobee. Advertisement The moves come as a wave of conservative candidates in Florida and around the country, many angry with how school districts handled COVID-19 issues, are... Read More

Forecasters with the National Hurricane Center are monitoring an area of low pressure that has emerged just offshore of the U.S. Gulf Coast near the Florida Panhandle. It was producing thunderstorm activity as of Monday afternoon. Its odds of developing into a tropical depression were at 10% within the next 48 hours and at 30% within the next five days. Gradual development is possible starting midweek as it drifts slowly west over the northern Gulf of Mexico. Advertisement Regardless of... Read More

What was supposed to be the start of a family summer vacation in South Florida became a murder-suicide that left two people dead, one injured, and a network of neighbors traumatized. On Sunday afternoon, the Boca Raton Police Department responded to a report of an injured person outside a home in the 5000 block of Northwest Third Terrace, a quiet bend in an ordinarily quiet neighborhood. Advertisement The Boca Raton Police Crisis Negotiation Team and SWAT Team arrived at 3:18 p.m. to... Read More

If you’re considering a sauna session, all you have to do is step outside. Meteorologist Chuck Caracozza with the National Weather Service in Miami said this type of heat is typical for South Florida in July, but it might feel hotter than normal due to — you guessed it — the humidity. Advertisement “It’s the heat indices that are really high because of all the moisture that’s being pumped in from the south/southwest,” Caracozza said. “So on these types of wind flows, we... Read More

Pain at the pump continued to ease last week. The average price for a gallon of unleaded gas in Florida dropped another 15 cents on Monday compared to a week earlier. Monday’s $4.41 average was 47 cents a gallon less than the record high of $4.89 set on June 13. Advertisement “The price declines are attributed to falling oil and gasoline futures prices, which suffered steep drops in recent weeks due to concerns about a potential global economic recession and how that could result in... Read More