Category: Broward News

Unwilling to sell broadcast license, Miami-Dade School Board discusses WLRN’s future

Miami-Dade County School Board members met Wednesday to chart the path of WLRN, South Florida’s sole public radio news station, as its license holder. After a nearly four-hour workshop, board … Click to Continue » ... Read More

Apartment homes and shops may rise on old Hollywood trash dump

The fate of a contaminated swath of city-owned land that once housed an incinerator moved a step closer to being decided on Wednesday. In the next five years, if things go as planned, an old trash dump could be turned into a new mixed-use development with 315 apartments and a nearby supermarket with trendy shops and restaurants. The team that would develop the sprawling 30.5-acre parcel includes Louis Birdman, the same man who’s building the One Thousand Museum, a 62-story ultra-luxury... Read More

Governor issues witness list, more details of upcoming case against suspended Broward Sheriff Scott Israel

Gov. Ron DeSantis’ lawyers plan to call up to nine employees of the Broward Sheriff’s Office as witnesses at the upcoming trial of suspended Sheriff Scott Israel before the Florida Senate. The sheriff is appealing the governor’s decision to suspend him from his $187,000-a-year job for neglect of duty and incompetence as a result of the mass shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High last year and Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in 2017. DeSantis suspended Israel on Jan.... Read More

Miramar Mayor Wayne Messam takes first legal step toward 2020 presidential run

He’s considering running for president in 2020 — but first Wayne Messam wants to know whether he’d have to quit as mayor of Miramar. One of the state’s most prominent election lawyers is asking on Messam’s behalf about the Florida law that requires elected officials to resign from their current offices when they qualify as candidates for different offices. But Wednesday’s letter to the Florida Division of Elections is not the only sign of just how serious Messam is about his... Read More

Fort Lauderdale hired high-ranking official with bogus resume, investigator says

For one man, getting a six-figure job in Fort Lauderdale City Hall was as easy as creating a webpage with photos of strangers, and padding his resume to make it appear he was qualified. No one in City Hall checked, and voila, he was the treasurer. Salary: $118,040. The embarrassing allegations of poor vetting are laid out in Broward Inspector General John Scott’s latest investigation, released Wednesday. In it, the office alleges that Fort Lauderdale City Treasurer Ash-Shaqandi “Ash”... Read More

‘I didn’t wanna die,’ ex-cop says on video about killing Corey Jones

Jurors at the police shooting trial of Nouman Raja on Wednesday watched intense videos recorded within hours of the then-Palm Beach Gardens officer gunning down stranded motorist Corey Jones. In one video from the morning of Oct. 18, 2015, Raja gave profanity-laced statements to investigators in which he insisted, repeatedly, that he was threatened at gunpoint and killed Jones in self-defense next to the highway off-ramp. As this evidence was presented in court, Raja became noticeably upset,... Read More

YNW Melly said his friends were killed in a drive-by. But that’s not what bullets reveal, cops say.

A single bullet casing, cellphone records and surveillance video point to rapper YNW Melly as the gunman who took the lives of two longtime friends, Miramar police say. YNW Melly and his friend, Cortlen Malik Henry, tried to disguise the killings of Anthony D’Andre Williams and Christopher Thomas Jr. as a drive-by shooting, and to portray themselves as survivors of street violence in an effort to mislead police, according to newly available court documents. But evidence that the initial,... Read More