Florida cops snuck cameras into massage parlors years before Robert Kraft’s prostitution sting

Billionaire Robert Kraft’s lawyers claim police clearly violated the law when they secretly planted cameras inside a massage parlor. But it wasn’t the first time cops have used the controversial tactic. In South Florida, the police have used court-approved warrants to spy on and record private rubdowns for prostitution stings. Officers in Boca Raton used secret cameras for similar massage-parlor crackdowns at least twice — in 2007 and 2014, charging dozens of johns and madams, records... Read More

Mass flight cancellations at Miami, Fort Lauderdale airports due to severe weather

Severe weather in the East Coast sparked several flight cancellations and delays at South Florida airports Friday, no doubt frustrating travelers leaving town for the busy holiday weekend. A torrent … Click to Continue » ... Read More

Judge and lawyer trade accusations of blackmail and extortion over ‘intimate’ photos

A Palm Beach judge says a prominent lawyer once threatened to reveal intimate photos of her if she didn’t back off her demands in her divorce and child custody case, according to one lawsuit. Years later, the judge retaliated by trying to extort the lawyer — demanding $10 million to stop her from exposing the blackmail attempt, according to another lawsuit. Now, lawyers for Palm Beach County Judge Marni Bryson and the politically influential attorney William Scherer are bracing for a... Read More

Sticker shock zaps Broward’s plan to curb hurricane power outages

If a hurricane strikes South Florida this year, be prepared for prolonged power outages. Little progress has been made since Hurricane Irma two years ago in dealing with the main culprit of knocked-out electricity: trees, vegetation and other debris being blown onto power lines. While Florida Power & Light is making its electrical grid more resilient to help restore power faster, the system remains vulnerable to damage from the massive amounts of trees and vegetation planted underneath... Read More

A president should not be immune to indictment | Editorial

In a nation of laws, no one should be above them. Not even the president. Especially not the president. But for the time being, he is. That’s unacceptable. According to U.S. Justice Department doctrine, which Special Counsel Robert Mueller III was duty-bound to obey, a president cannot be indicted while in office. The pretext is that it would be too disruptive to the government to put a sitting president on trial. But such carte blanche immunity is disruptive to something even more... Read More

Three girls seriously injured in crash near West Broward High

Three 18-year-old girls were seriously hurt in Pembroke Pines on Friday morning when their car rear-ended another vehicle and then crashed into a tree, police said. It was unclear whether the girls were students, but the crash happened at 7:06 a.m. less than a mile from West Broward High School, according to police. All three girls were seriously injured and taken to Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood for emergency treatment, said Sgt. John Baker, a police spokesman. The driver was... Read More