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A doctor was shot Wednesday night in the emergency room of the West Palm Beach VA Medical Center, employees leaving the hospital said. The ER doctor was shot in the neck by a double amputee in a wheelchair, a source told CBS12. The doctor was taken to St. Mary’s Medical Center in West Palm Beach and is undergoing surgery. He is expected to survive. A tech was in the restroom with the shooter and saw him loading the weapon. When the tech went to seek help, the shooter came out firing, a... Read More

Jurors at the police shooting trial of Nouman Raja on Wednesday watched intense videos recorded within hours of the then-Palm Beach Gardens officer gunning down stranded motorist Corey Jones. In one video from the morning of Oct. 18, 2015, Raja gave profanity-laced statements to investigators in which he insisted, repeatedly, that he was threatened at gunpoint and killed Jones in self-defense next to the highway off-ramp. As this evidence was presented in court, Raja became noticeably upset,... Read More

Shaking off criticism from House Republicans, President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer declared under oath Wednesday that Trump knew ahead of time and embraced the news when told that WikiLeaks had emails damaging to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. Michael Cohen also testified that Trump is a “racist,” a “conman” and a “cheat.” Cohen, called to testify by Democrats over the objections of Republicans, suggested that Trump also... Read More

Drivers who commute between Broward and Palm Beach counties may notice a bit of sticker shock when they travel northward over the county line — gas prices seem to shoot up as soon as you cross the border. One of those frustrated motorists wrote in as part of the Sun Sentinel’s Sound Off South Florida project, in which we attempt to answer reader-submitted questions. “Why is gas so much more expensive in Palm Beach County than Broward County?” the reader wondered. “It’s... Read More

Wherever you go around here, Florida Man may be lurking, but he apparently has stayed away from Weston. The affluent city in western Broward County is the third-safest city in the entire country, according to a report from security system review site SafeHome.com. Only Greenwich, Conn., and Parsippany, N.J., ranked higher than Weston. To generate each city’s score, the report considered FBI crime data and demographic metrics, including population density, population trends, unemployment... Read More

The Broward County School Board is scheduled to vote next week on whether to fire embattled Superintendent Robert Runcie. The newest board member, Lori Alhadeff, has placed on the agenda for the March 5 meeting a request to terminate Runcie’s contract. Alhadeff, whose daughter Alyssa was killed during the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High on Feb. 14, 2018, cited Runcie’s “many failures of leadership,” including his handling of the tragedy, as well as the slow progress on the... Read More

The Broward County School Board is scheduled to vote next week on whether to fire embattled Superintendent Robert Runcie. The newest board member, Lori Alhadeff, has placed on the agenda for the March 5 meeting a request to terminate Runcie’s contract. Alhadeff, whose daughter Alyssa was killed during the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High on Feb. 14, 2018, cited Runcie’s “many failures of leadership,” including his handling of the tragedy, as well as the slow progress on the... Read More

Prosecutors blasted former police officer Nouman Raja as a “reckless killer” and liar at the start of his much-anticipated trial Tuesday in the shooting death of stranded motorist Corey Jones along an Interstate 95 off-ramp. “Instead of being Corey Jones’ saving grace, he was his angel of death,” Assistant State Attorney Brian Fernandes told the Palm Beach County jury. “He made a decision to shoot first and ask questions later … disgracing the badge that men and women... Read More

A new consumer survey shows America’s love affair with Trader Joe’s and Costco continues, but overall customer satisfaction was down last year. The latest American Customer Satisfaction Index survey ranked the best and worst retailers of 2018 asked more than 62,000 consumers to choose favorite department and discount stores, specialty retailers, supermarkets and e-retailers, among others. A score of 100 was best. Top retailers scored in the 80s, with most chains clustered in the... Read More

Zachary Cruz, the younger brother of Parkland school shooter Nicholas Cruz, will appear on the “Dr. Oz Show” today. Cruz, 18, will be interviewed by the Palm Beach cardiac surgeon on the show which airs 3 p.m. on WTVJ-Ch. 6 in Miami and Fort Lauderdale and on WPBF-Ch. 25 in West Palm Beach. The episode is part of Mehmet’s “True Crime Tuesdays.’’ Zachary Cruz was 17 when his older brother fatally shot 14 students and three staff members at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on... Read More