Category: Broward News

They offered evidence that soon after his dad’s passing, Scandirito removed $1,476 from his dad’s bank account, started his “gruesome work” of carving up the body, and began carrying out a ruse by filing a missing persons report with the police that his dad could have drowned while kayaking. ... Read More

The Florida Board of Pharmacy Rules Subcommittee will meet June 27 to discuss a new law that would allow Florida to establish a drug-importation program and the “international export pharmacy permits” that will be required to participate. The panel will consider a draft version of an application for the international export pharmacy permits, an agenda for the meeting shows. ... Read More

The initiative comes after Florida’s Gulf Coast was inundated by one of the longest recorded algae outbreaks last year. The source of the annual outbreaks in Florida and the Gulf of Mexico is blooms of a single-celled organism called Karenia brevis algae, which produces toxins that kill fish, birds, sea turtles, manatees and dolphins and can cause shellfish poisoning in humans. ... Read More

A Quinnipiac University Poll released Tuesday found 59% of Florida Democrats were paying a lot of attention to the presidential campaign. Another 19% said they were paying some attention, 15% a little attention and 6% no attention. A week earlier, a national Quinnipiac poll found 45% of Democrats reported paying a lot of attention to the campaign, 29% some, 18% a little, and 8% none. ... Read More

Most of the state’s larger school districts, including Broward and Miami-Dade, opted-out of arming classroom teachers. But among the state’s school districts that opt-in, we’ll see no more lame excuses about missing homework. No more vaping in the boys’ room. Stand my ground, in Florida, becomes stand my playground. Junior’s nerdy seventh grade math teacher will morph into a Clint Eastwood persona: “Go ahead. Make my third period.” ... Read More

Yes, it rests atop a parking garage, but Juvia is deceptively posh. The garage, first off, is designed by Herzog and de Meuron, the same architecture dream-team behind the Perez Art Museum Miami. This 10,000-square-foot penthouse-level restaurant features vertical gardens and wide windows offering picturesque views of South Beach. Go during “sunset hour” (6-8 p.m. daily), and snag pricey cocktails for $9-$11 each. ... Read More

While other New York-style delis have disappeared through the years, TooJay’s Deli keeps expanding. The popular chain featuring old-school Jewish favorites such as matzo ball soup, knishes, and pastrami and corned beef sandwiches is set to open its 30th Florida location, and sixth in Broward, next month at the Dania Pointe shopping complex in Dania Beach. ... Read More

“She was my little shadow,” Chris Jacobsen said. When she wasn’t helping him fix things, she could be found playing soccer with a cluster of neighborhood friends and cousins, riding her bike, or swimming. “She was a happy-go-lucky girl,” Jacobsen said. “A little bit of a tomboy,” he added. ... Read More

The concert will depict a colorized version of Holly from 1957, two years before he died at age 22 in a plane crash following a concert in Clear Lake, Iowa. (His death on Feb. 3, 1959, is immortalized in Don McLean’s opus “American Pie” as “the day the music died.”) Hologram Holly will “croon” signature hits “That’ll Be the Day” and “Peggy Sue Got Married,” both anthems of young love. ... Read More

The rise in Florida’s median age affects everything from health care demands to housing costs and dining trends. While caregiver needs and medical costs are real, Richard Prudom, secretary for the Florida Department of Elder Affairs, says the aging population benefits the the state. ... Read More