Category: Broward News

Discount airline Breeze Airways will soon become the latest airline to take a crack at serving Tallahassee from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport as part of a move designed to broaden its Florida service out of Broward County. The Utah-based carrier announced Tuesday it will start serving Florida’s capital city in July. Overall, the Breeze expansion will add eight cities out of Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood, pushing the total to 13. Besides Tallahassee, the new in-state service... Read More

In the end, no Giannis Antetokounmpo on Tuesday night at Fiserv Forum for the Milwaukee Bucks and no Giannis Antetokounmpo on Tuesday night at Fiserv Forum for the Miami Heat. The latter always felt like a longshot, even with all the Antetokounmpo trade swirl around the Feb. 5 NBA trade deadline. So, instead, Giannis still a Buck — for now — sidelined with a calf strain for the Heat’s lone visit of the season to Milwaukee. The thought at the NBA trade deadline was that if the Bucks do... Read More

Tucked behind U.S. 27, gears are turning at South Florida’s newest recycling facility — which is now one of the largest in the United States. WM’s $90 million Pembroke Pines recycling plant recently opened its doors to the public, taking visitors on a tour of its high-tech processing machinery and education room. At the 127,000-square-foot facility, upward of 275,000 tons of material are expected to be recycled per year. That’s about 60 tons per hour. Local officials and WM... Read More

Dear Eric: My sister’s daughter is getting married in the fall. My 20-year-old daughter has not been invited because it is “adults only.” This upsets both of us because she is close to her cousin. When I asked if she could attend the wedding ceremony, I was told that I wasn’t even invited to the wedding ceremony because it was immediate family only, although the seven bridesmaids will outnumber the wedding guests. Now I will be driving several hours to attend the reception. It feels... Read More

The next Broadway season in Fort Lauderdale will spotlight some of the The Great White Way’s hottest new musicals, plus the return of some fan favorites. Shows taking center stage at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts include new national tours of “Death Becomes Her,” “The Outsiders” and “Buena Vista Social Club.” Encore runs will include “Hamilton,” “Mamma Mia,” “Disney’s Beauty and The Beast,” “Six” and “The Notebook” (which will play West Palm... Read More

By JOHN WAWROW and MELISSA GOLDIN WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. women’s hockey gold medal-winning team has politely declined an invitation from President Donald Trump to attend his State of the Union address on Tuesday. “We are sincerely grateful for the invitation extended to our gold medal–winning U.S. Women’s Hockey Team and deeply appreciate the recognition of their extraordinary achievement,” the U.S. women’s team said in a statement released Monday. “Due to the timing and... Read More

By Dana Hull, Bloomberg News Jeffrey Epstein attempted to bring three women who were foreign nationals along with him for a tour of SpaceX’s headquarters in 2013, emails released by the U.S. Justice Department show, an effort that raised security concerns within the Elon Musk-run company. The women, described in various emails as Epstein’s “assistants” or “girls,” included two Russians and a South African, according to correspondence between Lesley Groff, Epstein’s longtime... Read More

By CHRISTOPHER WEBER LOS ANGELES (AP) — An estimated 31,000 registered nurses and other front-line Kaiser Permanente health care workers will return to work on Tuesday after a four-week strike in California and Hawaii to demand better wages and staffing. The United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals said in a statement Monday that “significant movement at the bargaining table” prompted an end to the walkout. There were no details about what progress... Read More

Pompano Beach will get its first public look Tuesday at a study commissioned last year to answer a simple question with wide-ranging impact: Can the city save a bundle by ending its 27-year partnership with the Broward Sheriff’s Office? The answer, according to an executive summary of the report shared individually with city commissioners last week, is yes. Or maybe. Or no. It’s complicated. With an estimated population of 118,000, Pompano Beach is the largest city under contract with... Read More

A 34-year-old man is facing a murder charge in connection with the death of a woman whose body was discovered in a Fort Lauderdale neighborhood last week, police said. The body of Daneshia Heller, 30, was found shortly before 7:30 a.m. Wednesday in the 200 block of Northwest 15th Avenue, and Fort Lauderdale Police detectives determined her death was “suspicious” and likely a homicide, spokesperson Casey Liening previously said in a statement. Altavious Powell was publicly identified as... Read More