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Broward County’s Ron Bergeron signed a $25 million no-bid construction contract with the South Florida Water Management District more than a week after Gov. Ron DeSantis tapped him for the district’s board. Bergeron signed the contract calling for Bergeron Land Development Inc. to complete the district’s work on a stormwater treatment area in western Martin County on Feb. 6. DeSantis said he “would like to appoint” Bergeron, a western Broward developer and... Read More

Eight days after the pickup he was driving plunged into the Middle River in Lauderdale Lakes, the 73-year-old man who was hospitalized after the crash died, officials said Tuesday. A passer-by spotted the partially submerged white Ford F-250 about 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 22 after it drove east along the 3000 block of Northwest 47th Terrace, through the parking lot of the Lauderdale Oaks community, off the pavement, onto the grass, and into the water, the Broward Sheriff’s Office... Read More

In what appears to be a well-coordinated variation of a notorious lottery scam, four people were involved in the con that cost an 80-year-old woman $18,000 worth of her jewelry, according to Davie police. Investigators Tuesday released surveillance images of two of the people involved and their vehicle in the hopes of generating leads in the case. It was just before 1 p.m. on Feb. 21 when the four people parked a late-model, white Mitsubishi Outlander Sport in the Publix parking lot at 8842... Read More

It’s time to set clocks ahead, lose an hour of sleep – and, for many people, to complain about daylight saving time. U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., feels the pain of daylight-saving-time haters. He plans to mark Sunday’s annual “spring forward” of clocks by re-introducing federal legislation on Wednesday to make daylight saving time year-round. If the proposal becomes law, the time shift would be permanent, with more light at the end of the day and less in the morning. And people... Read More

In an emotional address Tuesday, Sandipkumar Patel explained how his erroneous arrest in the ongoing sex spa investigation upended his life. “Imagine thinking about killing yourself,” Patel, 47, said. “This did not have to happen, and there is nothing that can erase the hell my family and I went through.” Law-enforcement officials in Martin, Palm Beach and Indian River counties beginning last month started sharing details into investigations of several spas raided after they said men... Read More

Embattled R&B singer R. Kelly denied having sex with underage girls and holding women against their will in his first TV interview since being charged with sexual abuse last month. “I didn’t do this stuff! This is not me! I’m fighting for my (expletive) life!” Kelly told Gayle King Tuesday in Chicago. The interview is scheduled to air on “CBS This Morning” Wednesday and Thursday. King also chats with Azriel Clary and Joycelyn Savage in an interview set to air Friday morning.... Read More

Robert Runcie, the embattled superintendent who’s come under increasing criticism since the Parkland shooting, survived an attempt to topple him from his post Tuesday. The vote on whether to fire Runcie came at the request of new School Board member Lori Alhadeff, whose daughter was killed in the Feb. 14, 2018 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High in Parkland, which left 17 people dead. She cited “willful neglect” in his handling of safety, school renovations and other matters. The... Read More

The first electronic video gaming center in Fort Lauderdale will open later this year along Sistrunk Boulevard, in a modern twist on parks and recreation. “We want to offer it like a baseball option or a football option. We want to have a recreation e-sports option,” City Manager Chris Lagerbloom said. The e-sports room will allow young people to compete against other gamers in the world, the latest in gaming technology. The video games offered by the city will be “age-appropriate,”... Read More

A 9-year-old girl and a man were injured by gunfire during a fight in Hallandale Beach on Tuesday afternoon, police said. Police broke up a fight at 600 NW Sixth Ave., near Foster Park, after getting calls reporting that shots had been fired, said Capt. Ra Shana Dabney-Donovan, a spokeswoman for Hallandale Beach police. Reports of multiple shots fired came in at about 2:15 p.m., she said. Police later learned a little girl had been wounded by gunfire and was being taken to the hospital by a... Read More

Hallandale High School student was arrested Tuesday afternoon after it was discovered he had a loaded gun in his backpack, police said. A school resource officer searched the 14-year-old student after an administrator reported that he had been smoking an e-cigarette in the hallway, said Capt. Ra Shana Dabney-Donovan, spokeswoman for the Hallandale Beach Police Department. The security officer found a loaded weapon in the front pocket of the student’s book bag. What was first thought to be... Read More