Category: Broward News

We’re heading into prime time for outdoor events and festivals in South Florida — a perfect time for families looking to enjoy beautiful weather before it gets too hot. Here’s our top 10 picks for the weekend: 1. MSD Heroes Challenge, Saturday, Race begins at 7:30 a.m. The inaugural MSD Heroes Challenge is an obstacle course race for athletes of all skill levels and ages. Participants will walk/run a two-mile race of challenging obstacles and are invited to join a yoga class following... Read More

Miami-Dade’s transportation tax may not have expanded Metrorail as advertised or doubled the county’s bus fleet, but it has been a consistent success in delivering on promised road projects. The … Click to Continue » ... Read More

One minute he was a customer — and then he became thief. A man who appeared to be browsing at a Hollywood jewelry store took off with items valued at about $100,000, police said. It happened Feb. 5 at DSH Oakwood Jewelers, 2897 Stirling Rd. Hollywood police Tuesday released security surveillance video of the crime in the hopes someone will recognize the man who is believed to be in his late 20s. According to police, he asked to see several items that were locked in a display case. “As... Read More

It was a close encounter with a great white shark and it was “just awesome.” It happened Sunday when a group of people were spearfishing Sunday about three miles offshore from Jupiter. While the experience might be frightening or hair-raising for some, Tommy Allore of Stuart, said he and those with him were exhilarated. “I think everyone was just excited,” he said. “We knew how special that moment was. It’s not common to see them, especially out of a cage,... Read More

The family of the Kentucky teen who was involved in an encounter with a Native American advocate at the Lincoln Memorial last month filed a defamation lawsuit against The Washington Post on Tuesday, seeking $250 million in damages for its coverage of the incident. The suit alleges that The Post “targeted and bullied” 16-year-old Nicholas Sandmann in order to embarrass President Donald Trump. Sandmann was one of a number of students from Covington Catholic High School in Kentucky... Read More

Brian Wallace Jr. was taking part in a neighborhood card game in the park on Valentine’s Day night when two robbers crashed the game, demanding money, the Broward Sheriff’s Office … Click to Continue » ... Read More

Players at a Thursday night card game in a Pompano Beach park ran for their lives when two armed robbers showed up and demanded everyone’s money, police said. When the card players, including 18-year-old Brian Wallace Jr., made a run for it the robbers, started shooting, according to the Broward Sheriff’s Office. It wasn’t until Wallace and a relative made it to the shelter of their nearby car that Wallace realized he had been shot, said Gina Carter, a spokeswoman for the Sheriff’s... Read More

It is one of the hardest jobs in child welfare: overseeing services to the approximately 3,000 foster children in Miami-Dade and Monroe counties, some abandoned, some abused, some both. It … Click to Continue » ... Read More

One week after vowing to stay in his post, UCF President Dale Whittaker bowed Tuesday to intense pressure and offered to resign amid investigations into the misappropriation of nearly $85 million for construction projects. Whittaker, less than eight months into his tenure, is being forced out by a scandal involving the misuse of state funds that has drawn rebuke from the Legislature and the Board of Governors, which oversees the state university system. He has maintained he didn’t know... Read More

A West Boca mother of four was shot to death by her boyfriend, who then turned the gun on himself in what police are calling a murder-suicide. The bodies of Laura Randall, 53, and Gregory Schatz, 45, were discovered by Randall’s 17-year-old son a little before 4 p.m. Monday, relatives and authorities said. The double shooting took place in a home in the 22000 block of Southwest 57th Circle, east of State Road 7 and north of West Hillsboro Boulevard, said Teri Barbera, spokeswoman for the... Read More