Category: Broward News

Eight people were hurt in a collision between a Broward County Transit bus and a car during the Friday morning rush hour, Plantation Fire Rescue said. A white BMW appeared to rear-end the bus shortly after 6 a.m. in the northbound lanes of State Road 7 just north of Broward Boulevard in Plantation, said fire rescue spokeswoman Robin Russell. “There were a total of seven patients,” she said. “One was transported to a local trauma center, six transported to a local hospital, and one... Read More

There were reports of multiple injuries before dawn Friday in a crash involving a Broward Transit bus and a car. The crash involving the bus and a white BMW happened about 6 a.m. in the northbound lanes of State Road 7 just north of Broward Boulevard in Plantation. Details about the crash and the extent of the injuries were not immediately known. The northbound lanes of State Road 7 through the crash scene were closed as rescue crews were on the scene. This story will be updated. Check back... Read More

Saturday is Venezuela’s next watershed moment. Juan Guaidó says international humanitarian aid will get into the country by land, air or sea. The Trump administration is stockpiling aid on the … Click to Continue » ... Read More

There was a time when Miami proudly wore the banner of City of Refuge. These days, we’re the capital of immigrant detention, taking our place front and center in the … Click to Continue » ... Read More

“Be respectful and never lie are the only rules in my classroom,” Nova Middle School teacher Kristin Murphy said in posted remarks after being named Broward County’s top teacher on Thursday night. At the Fort Lauderdale/Broward County Convention Center, Broward County Public Schools held its annual Caliber Awards Ceremony to recognize the district’s top educators. Murphy teaches world history and pre-law at Nova Middle and has been an educator for more than 20 years. A colorful... Read More

The Florida Trust for Historic Preservation is taking over management of the historic Bonnet House, ousting the nonprofit that has operated the beachfront estate for nearly three decades. The two entities clashed over the vision for the property’s future, said Executive Director Melissa Wyllie of the Florida Trust, which owns the 35-acre expanse. It’s unclear how current operations will be affected. The Trust’s decision starts a 180-day period in which management of the community... Read More

A 83-foot commercial fishing vessel, named Lady Kristie, with three people aboard, was stopped by the U.S. Coast Guard Thursday after it was spotted in a protected area near the … Click to Continue » ... Read More

A former Miramar police department IT worker, who used his position to buy cell phones and resell them over a five-year period, banking $800,000, pleaded guilty to federal mail fraud … Click to Continue » ... Read More

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — Nearly a decade after three Israeli engineers walked into a bar in Tel-Aviv and concocted a plan to build a lunar lander, they watched their creation barrel toward the sky on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket Thursday evening. Destination: The moon. The lander, Beresheet — Hebrew for “in the beginning,” — joined two more satellites on the SpaceX launch Thursday, which took off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s launch complex 40 at 8:45 p.m. As the rocket... Read More

U.S. immigration authorities once again granted a one-year extension to Reina Gómez Ramírez, a Honduran immigrant suffering from cancer. The woman faces deportation, but says that sending her back to … Click to Continue » ... Read More