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Millions of tourists visit the Orlando area each year for Walt Disney World, Universal Studios and SeaWorld. But should Central Florida also see a yearly flood of politicians and lobbyists? State Sen. Kevin Rader wants Florida to look into the idea of moving the state capital from Tallahassee to Orlando, introducing a bill this week that would study the costs and impact of moving the capital 259 miles down the road. Rader, D-Boca Raton, wants the Office of Program Policy Analysis and... Read More

The man accused of breaking into two Hollywood homes in an upscale gated community in December and raping a woman at knifepoint will be brought to Broward County to face prosecution, police said. Shawn Wright, 27, is jailed in Miami-Dade County on narcotics and weapons charges. No date has yet been set for his extradition to the Broward Main Jail, said Miranda Grossman, spokeswoman for the Hollywood Police Department. The same day the crimes were committed, Dec. 12, in the Hollywood Oaks... Read More

The Stranahan gym walls are about to get a little more crowded. The school has to make space for a new banner. For the first time in the school’s 62-year history, the Mighty Dragons are state boys basketball champions. “I’m from Fort Lauderdale,” Stranahan senior Jordan Greene said. “So to do this for my city and to bring back something my dad went to and played basketball, and he feels great … it just feels great for the community.” Stranahan’s historic 63-54 victory in... Read More

A pedestrian lost his race with a Brightline train Thursday night and was killed while trying to cross railroad tracks in Hollywood, authorities said. The 43-year-old man was struck about 6:30 p.m. while trying to beat the train at Garfield Road and Dixie Highway, said Battalion Chief Chris Del Campo, spokesman for Hollywood Fire Rescue. The man’s body landed near Hayes Street, a block south of where he was hit, Del Campo said. Ihosvani Rodriguez / courtesy At least a dozen people... Read More

The main reason ex-cop Nouman Raja was found guilty Thursday — let alone even charged in the fatal shooting of stranded motorist Corey Jones — was an extraordinary audio recording. This case, joining a series of police killings of young black men across the country, turned on the discovery of Jones’ recorded call for a tow truck that early morning of Oct. 18, 2015, on a highway off-ramp. Played repeatedly in Raja’s eight-day trial, it allowed the jury to hear the tragic 3:15 a.m.... Read More

The wife of a former FBI agent who vanished in Iran in 2007 expressed bitter frustration Thursday about efforts to get her husband back home. Christine Levinson, of Coral Springs, told a House panel that she holds Iran responsible for the disappearance of her husband, Robert, but she also said three American administrations have failed to press the Tehran government hard enough for his return. “Time and time again, Bob has been left behind, deprioritized, or seemingly forgotten,”... Read More

Pembroke Pines police on Thursday identified the man who was shot to death in a residential community in January. He was 18-year-old Ameer Mustafa. Mustafa was gunned down in the pre-dawn hours of Jan. 14 in the Cobblestone residential community, which is immediately west of Interstate 75 and accessible only from Pines Boulevard to the north and Pembroke Road to the south. Investigators continue to search for the shooter who struck at about 4:58 a.m. where Southwest Seventh Street dead ends... Read More

A long-running criminal investigation into Fort Lauderdale City Commissioner Robert McKinzie Jr.’s political campaign has ended without charges. The State Attorney’s Office concluded McKinzie’s 2015 campaign finance accounting was “slipshod” and his financial reports carried “multiple inaccuracies,” but “any criminal prosecution would be tenuous at best” because there is “a lack of sufficient evidence,” a close-out memo says. “It is abundantly clear from this... Read More

As the old joke goes, everyone complains about the weather but no one ever does anything about it. But a judge in Minnesota has decided enough is enough – and issued an emergency restraining order on Thursday against defendants named as Old Man Winter, Mr. Snow and Minnesota Meteorologists, according to CBS Minnesota. “The defendants are enjoined from permitting any more snowfall this winter in the ‘Restricted Geographic Regions’ of Minnesota; and especially within Hennepin... Read More

The wife of a former FBI agent who vanished in Iran in 2007 expressed bitter frustration Thursday about efforts to get her husband back home. Christine Levinson told a House panel that she holds Iran responsible for the disappearance of her husband, Robert, a retired FBI agent from Coral Springs. But she also said three American administrations have failed to press Iran hard enough for his return. “Time and time again, Bob has been left behind, deprioritized, or seemingly... Read More