Category: Broward News

A man on a cellphone, dressed in denim shorts and a T-shirt, walks up a to a man sitting in a parked SUV in front of a Northwest Miami-Dade market … Click to Continue » ... Read More

Emily Acosta was described by her friends and family as athletic, energetic and blessed with a big heart. The 20-year-old from Hialeah Gardens was killed Wednesday in a car crash … Click to Continue » ... Read More

A sweeping U.S. Supreme Court ruling Wednesday has police chiefs and sheriffs across Florida asking their lawyers whether they need to change how they seize people’s cars, homes and cash. … Click to Continue » ... Read More

Michael Black, in his 32 years with the Hurricane Research Division of the National Weather Service, pioneered the use of airborne radar data and sensors to measure the strength of … Click to Continue » ... Read More

Investigators say it could be months before an arrest is made and charges are filed in a large Islamorada marina fire last week, which Monroe County’s sheriff says is likely … Click to Continue » ... Read More

Florida’s new governor named four more South Florida water managers on Thursday, a week after former members held a final, angry meeting criticizing the new administration’s house-cleaning that swept them … Click to Continue » ... Read More

A man was found guilty Thursday of killing Taco Bell manager Tikkitress Johnson in 2009 as she begged for her life. The same jury that convicted Karari Ritchie will be back in court in April to decide whether he should pay for the crime with his life. Deliberations in the capital murder case took more than 10 hours over two days. No one testified for the defense, and attorney Joseph Burke focused his closing argument Wednesday on perceived lapses in the investigation that brought Ritchie and... Read More

A Margate man suspected in a fatal shooting in Miami Beach turned himself in Thursday, authorities said. He surrendered two days after police released surveillance video of a shooter firing a gun on a Miami Beach street moments before a man was shot and killed nearby. Alan Michael Alt, 32, has a history of arrests in Florida for DUI, reckless driving, theft and marijuana and has lived in Fort Lauderdale, North Miami Beach and Virginia Beach, Va., records show. Alt turned himself in at the... Read More

The judge overseeing the case of confessed Parkland killer Nikolas Cruz asked attorneys on Thursday to consider January 2020 as the “tentative” goal for a trial date. Cruz faces the … Click to Continue » ... Read More

A proposal for a professional soccer team at defunct Lockhart Stadium in Fort Lauderdale is catching interest among devoted — but jilted — fans of the former Strikers team. At a community meeting Wednesday night, the man who hopes to win a Lockhart Stadium deal away from star-powered David Beckham tried to woo what he called “the most hard core soccer fans in Fort Lauderdale.” Fort Lauderdale city commissioners set a deadline of March 1 for proposals to breathe new life into the... Read More