Thousands of workers taking part in this evening’s Corporate Run: Downtown Fort Lauderdale traffic will be affected.

Nearly 9,000 runners and walkers are expected to swarm the streets of downtown Fort Lauderdale this evening for the 2019 Mercedes-Benz Corporate Run — and that means road closures. The run and walk begins at 6:45 p.m. at Huizenga Plaza in Bubier Park, at 32 E. Las Olas Blvd, and is expected to end by 8:30 p.m. Some of the closures are already in place. Until 11 p.m. Thursday, the east and westbound lanes of East Las Olas Boulevard, which were closed Wednesday, will remain closed between... Read More

South Florida has two new lottery millionaires and someone holding a winning ticket worth $215,000

In a lucrative run of luck, one day after the Florida Lottery announced two South Florida million dollar winners in scratch-off games, a single ticket purchased in Broward matched all five numbers in Wednesday night’s Fantasy 5 drawing and is worth more than $215,000. That jackpot-winning ticket was purchased at the Sedano’s Supermarket at 10333 Pines Blvd. in Pembroke Pines and is worth $215,970.49, lottery officials said. The numbers drawn in Wednesday night’s Fantasy 5 drawing were... Read More

Florida bride wears a white bikini to her redneck wedding; the groom wears overalls

A Florida couple had no interest in getting hitched the traditional way so they had a redneck wedding instead, exchanging vows in the bed of a pickup truck and then going for a dip in the mud, according to media reports. Jeremy Biddle and his bride Ahrielle Biddle exchanged vows on March 23 at a place called Redneck Mud Park in Punta Gorda on Florida’s west coast, WFLA Channel 8 and other media outlets reported. The groom donned a pair of overalls without a shirt underneath and the bride... Read More

Robert Kraft’s lawyers claim cops deliberately misled judge to get ‘spying’ warrant for massage parlor cameras

New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft accuses Jupiter police of going to “astonishing lengths” to mislead a judge into approving the “sneak and peek” warrant that allowed secret cameras in a massage parlor. Videos from the investigation resulted in misdemeanor charges of soliciting prostitution for Kraft, a 77-year-old billionaire with a Palm Beach address, and 24 other men. Kraft’s lawyers this week released a copy of the Jan. 15 warrant, enabling the public to see for the first... Read More

March for Our Lives students expected a debate on guns. They got a legislative delay.

Buses carrying about 150 high school student activists from around Florida arrived Wednesday afternoon to the Capitol ready for a lesson in democracy. Sporting “March for Our Lives” shirts and … Click to Continue » ... Read More

Jackie Gleason’s widow, Marilyn Taylor Gleason, dies in Fort Lauderdale

Marilyn Taylor Gleason – widow of The Great One and sister of “Jackie Gleason Show” choreographer June Taylor – died Tuesday night at 93 in Broward Health Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale. “She was a woman ahead of her time. She was comfortable in her own life,” said Craig Horwich, Marilyn’s son from her first marriage, who spent his teen years living with her and Gleason in the family’s 14-room mansion at Inverrary Country Club in Lauderhill. Marilyn Taylor was born Oct. 6,... Read More