Category: Broward News

Florida woman shoots boyfriend for snoring too loudly, cops say

What do you do if your partner is snoring too loudly? Hopefully, not what a 47-year-old Florida woman is accused of doing. Lorie Morin, of Cocoa, grabbed a shotgun and fired at her boyfriend, injuring him, according to WFLA.com. And now she faces charges of attempted murder and aggravated battery. Her boyfriend, who has not been identified, is still recovering from his injuries in a local hospital, clickorlando.com reports. Brevard County deputies said the shooting happened Wednesday night... Read More

Broward Sheriff’s Office settles with deputy who complained about use of force in arrest

The Broward Sheriff’s Office has agreed to pay $390,000 to a deputy who complained about the unnecessary use of force by Fort Lauderdale police in the 2013 arrest of murder suspect Walter Hart. Deputy Jeffrey Kogan, an 18-year veteran of the sheriff’s office, continues to work with the agency out of Pompano Beach. The settlement represents attorney fees plus what Kogan would have earned on the job had he been promoted four years ago. According to his attorney, Tonja Haddad Coleman, Kogan... Read More

Actor Jan Michael Vincent, known for ‘Airwolf,’ has died

Actor Jan Michael Vincent, known for starring in the television series “Airwolf,” has died. He was 73. A death certificate shows that Vincent died of cardiac arrest on Feb. 10, 2019, in an Asheville, North Carolina, hospital. The certificate signed by a doctor says he died of natural causes and no autopsy was performed. “Airwolf” was a 1980s television series featuring crime-fighters in an advanced helicopter. Vincent played pilot Stringfellow Hawke. He was also... Read More

Nuclear regulators to hear dispute over cooling canals at Turkey Point reactors

Nuclear regulators this week ordered a hearing over contentious plans to keep Turkey Point’s 1970s-era reactors and troubled cooling canals operating until the early 2050s. While regulators dismissed many of … Click to Continue » ... Read More

Money launderers use real estate, mortgage loans to do their dirty business in South Florida | Opinion

A little over 37 years ago, TIME magazine published its “Paradise Lost” issue, depicting South Florida as home to drugs dealers and narco-traffickers that, aside from their heinous crimes, flushed our part of the world with their dirty money and tarnished Miami’s reputation for decades. Accomplices to their nefarious endeavors were those banks who aided these criminal enterprises in hiding and legitimizing their ill-gained profits, perpetuating a fraud that destabilized our local... Read More