Electronics sale set up on social media ends in assault and gunfire

What was arranged on social media to be a simple sale of electronics in a gas station parking lot went awry and resulted in an assault and shots fired, Pembroke Pines police said. The incident happened Saturday at about 8:46 p.m. in the 15800 block of Pines Boulevard, west of Interstate 75, police said. On Thursday, police arrested Nicholas Murch, 23, of Coral Springs, as one of two suspects, said Amanda Conwell, a spokeswoman for the Pembroke Pines Police Department. When a man and woman... Read More

Court won’t prevent release of sex videos from massage parlor prostitution sting

Judges won’t prevent the release of sex videos recorded during a massage parlor sting, in rulings this week against men claiming an “invasion of privacy.” The orders in Martin County Court come at the same time New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft is battling to keep videos from getting out in his solicitation-of-prostitution case in Palm Beach County. In late February, the Martin County Sheriff’s Office and Jupiter Police separately announced that court-approved secret cameras... Read More

Family heartbroken after FBI says man claiming to be boy missing since 2011 is hoaxer

A young man’s claim to be an Illinois boy who disappeared under tragic circumstances eight years ago was disproved by DNA tests and pronounced a hoax Thursday, dashing hopes that the baffling case had finally been solved. For a day and a half, a breakthrough seemed to be at hand when a young man found wandering the streets of Newport, Kentucky, on Wednesday identified himself as 14-year-old Timmothy Pitzen. He told police he had just escaped from two men who had held him captive for... Read More

Man dies in Miami after Mexican star punches him in traffic incident. Actor’s left U.S.

A 63-year-old man who was punched by a Mexican film and telenovela star after a traffic incident on the Dolphin Expressway died Thursday, Jackson Memorial Hospital officials have confirmed. Pablo … Click to Continue » ... Read More

SWAT teams swoop after reports of suspicious person at Taravella High. It was a false alarm.

The initial report sounded eerily familiar to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High. A former student causes alarm by walking onto a Broward high school campus without warning carrying a large bag. So administrators at J.P. Taravella High in Coral Springs immediately locked down the school and alerted police right before the school day was supposed to start at 7:40 a.m. Students, teachers and parents waited in fear for two hours before they learned it was a false alarm, a case of a former student... Read More

‘Extreme’ flight risk: Chinese woman arrested at Mar-a-Lago says she owns $1.3M home, BMW

Yujing Zhang — the Chinese woman arrested Saturday after allegedly trying to bring an unusual number of electronic devices into President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club — identified herself at a … Click to Continue » ... Read More

Fed up with traffic to the beach? A shortcut may be on the way.

Heading to Fort Lauderdale beach could become less of a headache for airport visitors and others. A $35 million-plus shortcut is proposed to and from the 17th Street Causeway. The bypass would allow northbound beach-goers on Federal Highway or others coming from the west on State Road 84 to avoid a congested section of Southeast 17th Street and its four traffic lights. Instead, drivers could head east at the State Road 84-Spangler Boulevard intersection with U.S. 1 — the southern entrance... Read More

Governor had the right to dump Sheriff Scott Israel, judge rules

Gov. Ron DeSantis acted within his authority when he suspended Broward Sheriff Scott Israel and replaced him in January, a judge ruled Thursday. Broward Circuit Judge David Haimes’ decision did not indicate whether he agreed with the governor, but affirmed that DeSantis was legally justified when he replaced Israel with acting Sheriff Gregory Tony in January. Israel came under criticism after the February 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. In suspending... Read More