Category: Broward News

A mysterious businessman who tried to sell dirt on Hillary Clinton to Donald Trump campaign associates in Miami three years ago was not involved in a Russian effort to interfere … Click to Continue » ... Read More

He was standing in the driveway of his home just before midnight when the shots were fired and now Lauderhill police are searching for the killer. Officers were responding to reports of a shooting on Friday when they found Jaquan Bush with a gunshot wound lying in front of his home in the 1800 block of Northwest 56th Terrace, investigators said. Bush was taken to Broward Health Medical Center in critical condition and was later pronounced dead, police said. Detectives have few clues about a... Read More

The long-awaited, redacted version of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report released Thursday refers to several Florida links to Russia’s attempt to interfere with the U.S. presidential election. New information is sparse in relevant sections of the report, which isn’t in a searchable form and which blacks out some material — including details about some of the people and events related to Florida. “As you will see, most of the redactions were compelled by the need to prevent... Read More

Miami was one of five cities selected to receive a $3 million grant from JPMorgan to boost job training and reduce chronic financial stress. The grant is part of a … Click to Continue » ... Read More

The U.S. Coast Guard unloaded 14,000 pounds of marijuana along with 3,660 pounds of apparently undervalued cocaine on Thursday morning at Port Everglades. The weights come from the Coast Guard, … Click to Continue » ... Read More

South Florida rapper Kodak Black has been arrested at the U.S.-Canada border near Niagara Falls on gun and drug possession charges, forcing the cancellation of the Boston date on his current North American tour. U.S. border agents arrested Black, 21, whose legal name is Bill K. Kapri, and three others in his entourage on Wednesday as they tried to enter cross back into the United States from Canada, border officials and state police said. The arrests scuttled Kodak Black’s scheduled... Read More

As severe weather battered the mid-Mississippi Valley area and roared southwestward into Louisiana and coastal Texas on Thursday morning, Florida may get a strong line of thunderstorms on Friday. Weather … Click to Continue » ... Read More

Public at last, special counsel Robert Mueller’s report revealed to a waiting nation Thursday that President Donald Trump had tried to seize control of the Russia probe and force Mueller’s removal to stop him from investigating potential obstruction of justice by the president. The report said that in June 2017, Trump directed White House Counsel Don McGahn to call the acting attorney general and say that Mueller must be ousted because he had conflicts of interest. McGahn refused... Read More

A routine traffic stop in Tamarac has resulted in the arrest of a North Lauderdale man who is wanted for murder in El Salvador, the Broward Sheriff’s Office said. Carlos Ernesto Lozano Rodríguez, 26, who is a reputed gang member in the U.S. illegally, was stopped just before noon Monday near Northwest 70th Avenue and West McNab Road, officials said. Rodriguez was driving 2007 Cadillac Escalade and allegedly impeding traffic. When the deputy pulled him over, Rodriguez said he had no... Read More

Broward County Hip Hop artist Kodak Black has been arrested at the U.S./Canada border on gun and drug possession charges, according to the gossip website TMZ. U.S. Customs agents arrested Black and three others in his entourage on Wednesday as they tried to enter Lewiston, N.Y., from Queenston, Ontario, via a border-crossing bridge over the Niagara River, the report said. A Glock 9mm handgun and marijuana were found in the rapper’s Cadillac Escalade and three more guns and marijuana were... Read More