Overflowing downtown clubs catch firefighters’ attention

The music was ear-splitting, the crowd partying hard, a typical Saturday night in raucous downtown Delray Beach. Thirty people waited in line to get into Johnnie Brown’s, a lively restaurant and bar by the railroad tracks. The sidewalk out front was dense with revelers listening to the live band playing right on buzzing Atlantic Avenue. The restaurant was at capacity: 165 people. That meant no one could enter until someone else left. Firefighter Eddie Muniz, stationed at the entrance,... Read More

Mastering the Fundamentals of Mission

If you can’t do the fundamentals with excellence, then you will never be successful—at least not for long. Every coach knows the value of fundamentals. Not only does each season start with the basics, but coaches rehearse them over again as the building blocks of the game. Many early season practices have started with an exasperated coach restating the basics with a Lombardi-like version of, “Gentlemen, this is a football.” Form, stance,... Read More

Lighthouse Point couple, Fort Lauderdale woman die in Miami Beach boat crash

A weekend boating party turned tragic for a Lighthouse Point couple and a Fort Lauderdale woman who died after their center console boat crashed into the north jetty at Government Cut inlet in Miami Beach, a state official said. Killed Saturday night were Christopher Colgan, 56, and Elisaine Colgan, 38, who would have turned 39 on Sunday. Rescue crews recovered their bodies from the jetty, Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission Officer Ronald Washington said Monday. The body of... Read More

Political opposites Wasserman Schultz and Matt Gaetz join forces to push ban on oil drilling off Florida’s coasts

Oil and gas drilling around Florida’s coastlines would be permanently banned under legislation U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Weston, is introducing this week. She’s announcing the plan or the Marine Oil Spill Prevention Act on Monday — which is Earth Day and the ninth anniversary that that the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig sank in the Gulf of Mexico, causing an environmental catastrophe. Wasserman Schultz, one of Florida’s most prominent liberal members of Congress, is... Read More

License, registration, wedding ring: ‘Traffic stop’ turns into marriage proposal

A woman got an unexpected request when Miami Beach police pulled her and boyfriend over. Carolina Delgado and boyfriend Romain Zago were heading to lunch when they were stopped by Miami Beach police in front of the Miami Beach Marina in the 300 block of Alton Road Friday for some type of traffic infraction. One of the officers, Elpidio Garcia, told Zago that his license was suspended and he was going to be arrested. Garcia then told her that they were going to give her the opportunity to say... Read More

Boat crash in Miami kills Lighthouse Point couple; body found near crash scene early Monday

A married couple from Lighthouse Point died after their boat crashed into a jetty in Government Cut in Miami, according to news reports. The fatal wreck also sent one person to the hospital and prompted a search for a fourth passenger, WSVN-Ch. 7 reported. Early Monday, a woman’s body was found in the surf not far from where the crash happened, according to news reports. Whether the discovery is related to the crash wasn’t immediately known. The Saturday night outing started as a... Read More