Category: Broward News

Lisa Aronson, a former Coconut Creek commissioner, with her dog Mookie in April 2008. Mookie died 11 years ago. The Center for Voter Information recently sent a voter registration application to Aronson’s home, filled out with Mookie’s name. (Lisa Aronson / Courtesy) ... Read More

Newly sworn-in Gov. Ron DeSantis listens as Barbara Lagoa speaks after he named her to the Florida Supreme Court on January 09, 2019 in Miami. In the days following U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death, Lagoa was rumored by multiple sources to be on President Donald Trump’s shortlist for Supreme Court. (Joe Raedle / Getty Images) ... Read More

Barbara Lagoa, Governor Ron DeSantis’ pick for the Florida Supreme Court, speaks after being introduced, Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2019, in Miami. At rear right is Gov. Ron DeSantis and at left lieutenant governor Jeanette Nunez. Lagoa is now considered to be on the short list of President Donald Trump’s nominees for the U.S. Supreme Court. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee) (AP) ... Read More

Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, included a link to the fundraising effort in his tweet: “Don’t pick your favorite candidate or the one you’ve heard of. Give here. I repeat, this money goes directly to the most competitive races, not just the most famous candidates.” ... Read More

About 75 people came Saturday evening to the steps of the federal courthouse in Fort Lauderdale to honor and mourn Ginsburg, who succumbed to complications from pancreatic cancer. She had been hospitalized earlier this summer for an infection and in May, a gallbladder problem. Over the years, she’d also battled lung and colon cancer. ... Read More

Bartenders Holly Mackinder, left, and Jessica Dawkins, right, hold signs during a “Right to Work” rally outside of the Elbo Room bar , which remains closed, during the new coronavirus pandemic, Tuesday, June 16, 2020, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Across Florida, bars were part of the Phase 2 reopenings that occurred earlier in June, except in three counties in South Florida. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky) (Lynne Sladky/AP) ... Read More

Lodier Elveus (left), 20, and Shanteria Ferguson, 26, both of West Palm Beach, are facing several charges including kidnapping and human trafficking after allegedly abducting a woman and forcing her into prostitution in Palm Beach County. (Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office) ... Read More

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, in her chambers at the Supreme Court in Washington, August 23, 2013. Ginsburg, the second woman to serve on the Supreme Court and a pioneering advocate for women’s rights, who in her ninth decade became a much younger generation’s unlikely cultural icon, died of complications from metastatic pancreas cancer on Friday, Sept. 18, 2020. She was 87. (Todd Heisler/The New York Times) ... Read More

Katie Stallings prepares her second-grade classroom at MacFarlane Park Elementary in Tampa on Aug. 17, 2020. The state allowed just the three largest districts — in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties, where the virus has been most entrenched — to remain online-only after Aug. 31. Those districts now are preparing for in-person classes. (Octavio Jones/The New York Times) ... Read More

Barbara Robinson, 83 holds an old newspaper clipping from 1986 at her home in Pompano Beach on Thursday. In 1986 she discovered a newborn baby in her van. The baby was taken to a nearby hospital and later adopted by Robinson’s niece. Nearly 34 years later, the woman who was abandoned, Toraisa Joseph, is on a quest to find out more information about her birth parents. (Mike Stocker / South Florida Sun Sentinel) ... Read More