Category: Broward News

The DAVID system is used by criminal justice and law enforcement officials — including police officers and deputy sheriffs while on patrol — to quickly access a person’s information, including Social Security number, date of birth, addresses, signatures, and medical and disability information. ... Read More

The health system’s doctors are caring for 387 patients who are COVID-19 positive, with more than 98% of them unvaccinated — 46 more in the last three days and a 225% increase from only three weeks ago when the health system had only 105 COVID patients on July 1. Among the COVID patients, 43 are in intensive care, with two-thirds of those critically ill patients on ventilators. ... Read More

People wait in line at a Miami-Dade County COVID-19 testing site on July 26, 2021, in Hialeah. Florida accounted for a fifth of the nation’s new infections last week, more than any other state, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky) (Lynne Sladky/AP) ... Read More

These five elected officials have all resigned from their jobs because they want to move up to Congress in a special election. Florida law requires elected officials to resign in order to get on the ballot for a new elected officials if the terms of the two offices overlap. Submitting irrevocable resignations, from left: Omari Hardy, state representative of Palm Beach County, Bobby DuBose, state representative of Broward County, Barbara Sharief a Broward County commissioner, Perry Thurston a... Read More

A flotilla of dive vessels anchored over the reef for the lobster mini season on July 29, 2020, in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea. The COVID-19 restrictions did not deter the number of divers in the water.. (Joe Cavaretta/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP) (Joe Cavaretta/AP) ... Read More

Anti-maskers Chris Nelson of ReOpen South Florida and Anna Desenze of South Florida First argue with Broward Teachers Union members inside the Broward Schools K.C. Wright building on Tuesday, July 27, 2021. (Susan Stocker / South Florida Sun Sentinel) ... Read More

“They see the international leaders come in and out,” he continues. “They’re flying in and out, they’re on the plane to Haiti, nobody knows what they’re doing. They see the leadership, all they do is drive beautiful cars. … They enjoy life in Haiti. They go to the beach, they have all the beautiful houses, they have funds. So what happens to the rest of the people living in poverty? They’re discouraged. They have no hope.” ... Read More

The Broward State Attorney’s Office filed a response this week to a defense motion that would, if approved by the court, lock the public and press out of the courtroom until the trial begins. That sets up a clash with defense lawyers trying to protect Nikolas Cruz’s right to a fair trial in the murders of 17 students and staff of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 14, 2018, ... Read More

Along with his monthly $15,000 fee, the invoice included nearly $5,000 in expenses that appeared to catch Data Targeting’s chief financial officer, Lance Gardner, by surprise: “$4,975.00 in expenses? Did you approve those? Need an itemization?” Gardner wrote in a July 9 email to Bainter. ... Read More

The little girl, later identified Destiny, wore her hair in braids. She had denim shorts and a gray T-shirt. When police pulled her from the water and placed her on the grassy bank, they saw multiple scratches around the child’s mouth. There was a small laceration near the left side of the child’s lip, according to the police report. ... Read More