Category: Broward News

A Florida House committee voted Thursday for a broad school safety bill that would expand an existing guardian program to allow classroom teachers to volunteer to carry weapons on campus if local school boards approve. The Republican-led legislation adopted 11-5 along party lines by the House Education Committee builds on a law passed after last year’s mass shooting that killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. Teachers would not be required to carry... Read More

A Florida House committee voted Thursday for a broad school safety bill that would expand an existing guardian program to allow classroom teachers to volunteer to carry weapons on campus if local school boards approve. The Republican-led legislation adopted 11-5 along party lines by the House Education Committee builds on a law passed after last year’s mass shooting that killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. Teachers would not be required to carry... Read More

In January, Julio Morris was days away from his murder trial when a key eyewitness was gunned down in an ambush attack in North Miami-Dade. The trial was postponed. This … Click to Continue » ... Read More

A University of Tennessee football player was arrested early Thursday during the school’s Spring Break after punching a cop in South Beach, according to an arrest affidavit. Kenneth George, Jr., … Click to Continue » ... Read More

Ronald Henry Stewart’s confession closed the case of the 1983 murder of Regina Harrison in Hollywood. Stewart died in prison 11 years ago. He would have been there regardless of the murder — he had also pleaded guilty to multiple rapes and was sentenced to 50 years in prison for each of those crimes. But Stewart, prosecutors now say, was no killer. The Broward State Attorney’s Office filed a motion in court to vacate Stewart’s conviction after another dead man confessed to... Read More

The reward to catch the killer of a Pembroke Pines teenager has been increased to $25,000. Anonymous donors contributed $22,000 to the standard $3,000 Broward Crime Stoppers reward to find whoever was responsible for the killing of Ameer Mustafa, police and Crimestoppers announced Wednesday. Mustafa, 18, was gunned down just before 5 a.m. Jan. 15 in the Cobblestone residential community, bordering the west side of Interstate 75 between Pines Boulevard and Pembroke Road, investigators... Read More

They traveled to the state Capitol to make their views known about a controversial proposal to arm teachers. They’ll have to wait for another day. A Senate committee postponed public testimony Wednesday on a proposal that would allow classroom teachers to carry a firearm if they voluntarily undergo training. At least 20 members of the advocacy group Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America — some from Gainesville — traveled to Tallahassee. People packed the room. Spectators stood... Read More

Shootings that have claimed the lives or maimed sons, daughters, brothers, sisters and others have sparked a hunger strike in Miami that reached its 13th day Thursday. The group of nine men — “The Hunger Nine” — began their hunger strike March 9 to highlight the gun violence that has brought sorrow, fear and anger to every Miami neighborhood — especially communities like Overtown and Liberty City. “We want to make sure that people’s lives are never forgotten… the killing... Read More

More than a year before her Super Bowl selfie with the president, Li “Cindy” Yang brought two Chinese-born tech executives — an Australia-based cryptocurrency guru known in the industry as … Click to Continue » ... Read More

The cold is coming. It may be spring, but South Florida will get all the feels of winter on Thursday night and Friday. Ready for it? After climbing to nearly … Click to Continue » ... Read More