Category: Broward News

Phone scammers have adopted a new persona, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration: the DEA. The arm of the Justice Department felt the need to put out a warning after … Click to Continue » ... Read More

Looking for a good place to get some corned beef today? In the Miami area, it probably won’t be at a deli. In the last two decades, South Florida has … Click to Continue » ... Read More

A 6-year-old boy died Saturday morning after finding a loaded gun and shooting himself in the head inside a Miami Gardens home, police confirmed. Miami Gardens Public Information Officer Carolyn Frazier, who responded to the scene, said officers received a 911 call about 9 a.m. Saturday regarding a shooting in the 2100 block of NW 27th Court. Frazier said a boy sustained a serious gunshot injury while in the supervision of two caretakers. The boy, whose name has not been released and age... Read More

A South Florida lawyer helped pull off a $19.7 million fraud — a pump-and-dump stock scheme involving shell companies. Now, federal prosecutors thinks James Schneider of Hillsboro Beach is trying … Click to Continue » ... Read More

He was the Walter Cronkite of Miami. Ralph Renick’s booming baritone rumbled across the airwaves for more than three decades. He was the first anchor for the first TV station … Click to Continue » ... Read More

Adam Pascal has been performing on stage for more than two decades. But he says he’s in better shape now, except for a few aches and pains. “I’m better, stronger, … Click to Continue » ... Read More

Anguished relatives were anxiously waiting Sunday for authorities to release the remains of those who were killed in massacres at two mosques in the New Zealand city of Christchurch, while authorities announced the death toll from the racist attacks had risen to 50. Islamic law calls for bodies to be cleansed and buried as soon as possible after death, usually within 24 hours. But two days after the worst terrorist attack in the country’s modern history, relatives remained unsure when... Read More

On the last tennis court on the right, before the apartment building where they lived, the big dream started small for Naomi Osaka and her family. “That was their court,’’ says Bill Adams, the tennis pro at Lakeshore Tennis Park in Miramar, who was Osaka’s first coach in South Florida. “They’d be there five, six hours a day. Every day.” Osaka’s father, Leonard Francois, first approached Adams in 2006 with his two, young daughters and the question he would ask coaches across... Read More

Gloomy skies did not dampen the sunny dispositions on thousands of smiling faces at the St. Patrick’s Day Parade and Festival in Fort Lauderdale on Saturday. There seemed to be more people wearing the green than there were blades of grass in the downtown area. Pompano Beach Irishman Garrett Mooney was dressed in a giant inflatable shamrock suit, and if his wife Veronica, daughter Tori, 16, and son Austin, 11, were embarrassed, their blushing was green too. “All the floats that have... Read More

When the gunman advanced toward the mosque, killing those in his path, Abdul Aziz didn’t hide. Instead, he picked up the first thing he could find, a credit card machine, and ran outside screaming “Come here!” Aziz, 48, is being hailed as a hero for preventing more deaths during Friday prayers at the Linwood mosque in Christchurch after leading the gunman in a cat-and-mouse chase before scaring him into speeding away in his car. But Aziz, whose four sons and dozens of... Read More