Category: Broward News

It’s been years since Florida got a new specialty license plate, but 2019 could see the approval of 21 new ones that would raise charitable funds for everything from the Pulse shooting to gopher tortoises to beekeeping to plates for universities outside the state. The majority of them, though, would be part of a sweeping bill that would also see the elimination of several plates by raising the minimum number of registrations required annually, as well as cap the total number of possible... Read More

Update: Coral Gables Police announced via Twitter on Saturday that Angel Parra, 17, has been arrested by Hialeah Police on charges unrelated to the Feb. 8 carjacking for which Parra … Click to Continue » ... Read More

You’ve surely heard about the electric scooters you can rent in Fort Lauderdale. Maybe they sound like a fun way to get to your next meeting, join friends at a coffee shop, or see the beach. Now what? You have to make some choices, starting with whose scooter you rent. Four businesses rent the scooters now, and two more might be on the way. Fort Lauderdale’s e-scooter program has provoked considerable debate since it began in November, with fans calling the scooters fun and efficient and... Read More

An armed carjacking, a high-speed police chase through two Broward cities and a violent crash Thursday left one man hospitalized and his two friends in jail. The carjacking and pistol whipping of victims happened outside a Wells Fargo bank on Hillsboro Boulevard at South Military Trail in Deerfield Beach. Then just before midnight, Fort Lauderdale police alerted Plantation officers that they were chasing a stolen 2019 Mazda sedan from North State Road 7, according to police reports. Officers... Read More

A 30-year-old Coral Springs woman beat two of her young children and forced them to kneel for up to eight hours as punishment, police said. Jessiezaibeth Fuentes-Ruiz surrendered herself Wednesday for an incident that allegedly happened in October, but this was not the first time she has faced allegations of hurting her children. “This is the fifth time Ms. Fuentes-Ruiz has been investigated by Child Protective Services for abusing her children,” Assistant State Attorney Eric Linder told... Read More

Last call is coming soon for Stratford’s bar, Hollywood’s oldest watering hole. A neighborhood institution since 1938, the old-time Hollywood landmark will close its doors later this year. Next chapter: The bar will be transformed into a medical marijuana treatment center. The news sent some of Stratford’s regulars on a trip down memory lane. Some are sad to see the place go but like the idea that the walls where so many memories were made will remain standing. “We are not tearing... Read More

There will be a few firsts this year for Pride Fort Lauderdale. • The festival celebrating the LGBTQ+ communities in South Florida will be the first organization to have a beach-side parade on State Road A1A. • And one of the new events on the Feb. 21-24 schedule will be a drag brunch produced in partnership with the South Beach Wine and Food Festival (SoBeWFF), hosted by syndicated radio personality Elvis Duran and his fiance, Alex Carr. • There will also be a runway fashion show... Read More

This photo is said to be of Ernest Thomas, who was shot hundreds of times by an armed posse in the Florida panhandle after he was accused of rape. He married Ruby Lee Jones, but the Sentinel could not confirm if she is the woman pictured. (Courtesy Aaron Newson) ... Read More

It was said to be the “war to end all wars.” It wasn’t. Sadly and ironically, World War I sowed the seeds of a more deadly conflict fought over the same turf by many of the same parties. But on Nov. 11, 1918, the bloodletting that cost Europe nearly a generation of young men, and killed millions more civilians, was over. The world and the city rejoiced. The front page of the Chicago Tribune on Armistice Day captured history midstream: It recorded the jubilation of one war’s end, and... Read More

Animal lovers still mourn Ollie, demanding justice for the pit bull who died after being stabbed more than 50 times and left for dead inside a suitcase. Brendan Evans, his accused killer, remains behind bars at the Broward County jail nearly a year after being charged with the Oct. 10 crime. His trial is expected to get underway some time next year. A personal trainer who lived near the Hollywood alley where Ollie was found, Evans was charged with 17 counts of aggravated animal cruelty —... Read More