Category: Broward News

A distraught dad, who received a Face Time phone call from his crying son, showed up at school with an AK-47 handgun making death threats, Palm Beach County School District police said. According to the arrest report, Christopher Freeman, 27, who lives near West Palm Beach, arrived at Bear Lakes Middle School, 3505 Shenandoah Blvd., just before 4 p.m. Monday, angry that his son had been “slammed” by a teacher. An assistant principal had called Freeman earlier in the day about his... Read More

Robert Zangrillo, one of the main investors in the controversial Magic City Innovation District project in Little Haiti, has been charged by the Department of Justice with conspiracy to bribe … Click to Continue » ... Read More

A Miami man is going to prison for more than 14 years for killing a criminal defense lawyer in a high-speed hit-and-run car crash on the MacArthur Causeway. Elia Soto, … Click to Continue » ... Read More

A 19-year-old woman was killed Sunday in a violent early morning car crash in Deerfield Beach, the Broward Sheriff’s Office said Tuesday. The collision between a BMW 530i sedan and a Tesla Model 3 happened about 4 a.m. in the westbound lanes of West Hillsboro Boulevard, between North Powerline Road and Country Club Boulevard, authorities said. Tesla passenger Thais Haug, 19, of Deerfield Beach, died from injuries she received in the crash, the sheriff’s office said. Brian Sherwin /... Read More

The month is called “March” for a reason: because it’s a slog. As we in Los Angeles freeze to death in 66-degree temperatures I can hear you asking, what are we marching toward, exactly? The short answer is: to our inevitable deaths. The more complicated answer relates to the show “The Good Place,” which I may have binge-watched the entirety of last weekend. The afterlife, if that’s what you believe in, doesn’t mean an existence free of worry, or even suffering: We’re all... Read More

A couple of burglars who have been breaking into cellphone stores are leaving the smartphones behind and grabbing the stores’ safes instead. The two have been caught on camera at least twice and Broward Sheriff’s investigators released surveillance video Monday — hoping someone will recognize and report them The first break-in happened about 3 a.m. Feb. 2 in a Metro PCS store at 5558 W. Sample Rd. in Margate. The surveillance video showed the burglars shattering a large window pane... Read More

Last year, President Donald Trump’s private Mar-a-Lago club hosted a black-tie “Safari Night” fundraiser for a favorite charity of one of his older sisters. The event included Chinese dancers, a … Click to Continue » ... Read More

Under a curtain of darkness punctuated only by flashing emergency lights, a man who rescuers say is lucky to have survived a motorcycle crash was flown to Broward Health Medical Center late Monday night. It was about 10 p.m. when the unidentified man in his 30s was heading east on Interstate 75 near U.S. 27 in western Broward “at a high rate of speed” on a sporting-type motorcycle when the bike went out of control, according to Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue. When the motorcycle went down,... Read More

Conor McGregor, a professional MMA fighter and boxer, apparently wasn’t in the mood to say “cheese” as he left a Miami Beach hotel early Monday morning. The Irish fighter allegedly turned on a fan, who tried to snap McGregor’s picture with a cellphone, as they both left the Fontainebleau Hotel, 4441 Collins Ave., about 5:20 a.m., an arrest report said. Conor McGregor, the Irish mixed martial artist, was making friends Tuesday night in a Oviedo Ale House, according to WKMG Click... Read More

Joe Auer, who returned a kickoff for a Miami Dolphins touchdown on the franchise’s first play, has died at age 77. The Dolphins confirmed that Auer died Saturday in Winter Park, in Central Florida. Auer fielded a kickoff to start the Dolphins’ first game as an AFL expansion team in 1966 and returned it 95 yards for a score against the Oakland Raiders. In the years that followed, Auer joked that he heard from more people about that game than the 26,276 who were actually in... Read More