Category: Broward News

A few weeks after David Beckham and his partners won a key approval to advance plans to redevelop Fort Lauderdale’s Lockhart Stadium into a training facility for Inter Miami, the … Click to Continue » ... Read More

The South Florida Sun Sentinel and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette won Pulitzer Prizes on Monday and were recognized along with the Capital Gazette of Maryland for their coverage of mass shootings … Click to Continue » ... Read More

He met two women inside the bar at the W South Beach and brought them up to his room for a nightcap. Instead of a good time, the man ended … Click to Continue » ... Read More

He says he went to a massage parlor, got undressed, and received a rubdown from a licensed therapist. Only he didn’t know then about a secret spy camera in the private room. But it wasn’t a creepy criminal making the video recording — it was the cops. Jupiter police filmed dozens of massages over five days in January for a prostitution sting, which ensnared New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft. Yet an unknown number of those massages caught on camera apparently weren’t at all... Read More

Stripping to your bare chest, hurdling the wooden fence at an open-air mall and putting the famous RKO wrestling move on a fake alligator inside a tranquil streaming water and greenery display. And then the footage is posted on social media. The cops call it a bad move by a teen: It’s the second time in two weeks that Gianny Sosa-Hernandez was linked to a wrestling prank that resulted in his arrest. Miami-Dade police confirmed the fake alligator wrestling video was shot March 30 at The... Read More

Amid reports that Amazon employs thousands of people to listen to customers talk to their virtual personal assistant Alexa, Florida’s chief financial officer is warning residents to be careful what they say about their private health matters. He also revealed steps Alexa owners might not realize they can take to protect themselves. Bloomberg News last week reported that Amazon employees around the globe are listening to voice recordings captured in the homes of owners of its popular line... Read More

A major but long-delayed push by Miami-Dade County to have people living at Metrorail stations along South Dixie Highway is finally bearing fruit. The first apartment tower at Dadeland North … Click to Continue » ... Read More

Broward County auditors reviewing Port Everglades records haven’t finished their work yet, but they’ve already uncovered numerous examples of potential wrongdoing by county employees there. Auditors last year reported some port workers may have misused county credit cards, called P-cards, potentially involving thousands of dollars in questionable charges and leading to an ongoing Broward Sheriff’s Office investigation. In a separate report, auditors uncovered additional problems that... Read More

A massive fire engulfed the upper reaches of Paris’ soaring Notre Dame Cathedral as it was undergoing renovations Monday, threatening one of the greatest architectural treasures of the Western world as tourists and Parisians looked on aghast from the streets below. The blaze collapsed the cathedral’s spire and spread to one of its landmark rectangular towers, but Paris fire chief Jean-Claude Gallet said the church’s structure had been saved after firefighters managed to... Read More

A woman accused of spraying a neighbor with a chemical in Deerfield Beach was taken into custody for a mental health evaluation under Florida’s Baker Act, the Broward Sheriff’s Office said Monday. The woman, who lives in the 400 block of Northwest 36th Avenue, sprayed another resident, Broward Sheriff’s spokeswoman Gina Carter said. A hazardous-materials team went to the neighborhood west of Powerline Road and north of West Hillsboro Boulevard, Carter said. The chemical was ammonia,... Read More