Hit-and-run driver who dropped child at hospital comes forward

Her heart may have been in the right place but Broward Sheriff’s investigators feel her head was not when the hit-and-run driver disappeared after taking a 4-year-old child to the hospital. The woman reversed course and came forward after seeing news reports about the incident and the televised pleas of the child’s mother, the Broward Sheriff’s Office said Thursday. About a week ago a babysitter was walking with three children in the 2700 block of North State Road 7 when a Chrysler 200... Read More

Body found behind abandoned building is missing airport worker

A father of two last seen a week ago leaving work at the airport was killed and his body was left behind an abandoned Tamarac building, authorities said Thursday. Mackoni Hall, 40, of Hollywood, vanished on a Wednesday, March 13. He was last seen about 2 p.m. that day leaving work at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. Detectives are investigating Hall’s heath as a homicide. The cause has not been disclosed. A search is on for Hall’s 2008 Dodge Caliber. It is gold and... Read More

Stoneman Douglas Principal Ty Thompson under investigation

Ty Thompson, the principal of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, is under investigation but will stay at the school for now, teachers were told Thursday. The district also is bringing former Stoneman Douglas Principal Dan Traeger out of retirement to serve at the school, and the district will shift Thompson’s duties, two teachers who attended the staff meeting Thursday afternoon told the South Florida Sun Sentinel. Stoneman Douglas already has two principals, Thompson and Theresa Hall,... Read More

Republican with ties to Marjory Stoneman Douglas launches campaign against Wasserman Schultz

Richard Mendelson, a former teacher at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, said Thursday he’s the candidate who can achieve the victory that South Florida Republicans dream about: ousting U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz. “When people think of what’s wrong with government, nationwide many people think of Debbie Wasserman Schultz,” he said in a telephone interview. “We have a representative who has unfortunately demonstrated poor leadership and poor decision making. … It... Read More

5 flexible jobs to make extra money in South Florida

Between dropping off and picking up her 7-year-old son at school, Erin Davenport shops for groceries for other people. The Fort Lauderdale mom works for Shipt, where consumers can order groceries online to be delivered to their home from stores including Target, Publix, Winn-Dixie, Costco and ABC Liquors. For parents, retirees, college students and those between full-time jobs, flexible-work gigs such as Shipt Shopper can help pay the bills or provide extra cash. And there are plenty of such... Read More

A serial rapist took the blame for South Florida woman’s murder. A serial killer was really the culprit.

No one deserved to die the way Regina Harrison did in 1983. Riding her bicycle along West Lake Park in Hollywood, she was taken, stripped, sexually assaulted and strangled. Someone had to pay. And when Ronald Henry Stewart took full responsibility for the murder two years later, it seemed justice was served. But Stewart, prosecutors now say, was no killer. Now, the Broward State Attorney’s Office is moving to vacate Stewart’s conviction in the Harrison murder because another dead man... Read More

Inside the cutthroat combination of plastic surgery and social media

In South Florida, an area known for its high volume of successful and botched plastic surgeries, social media has brought a whole new level of craziness to the industry. Plastic surgeons are blogging, posting on Instagram and creating stories for Snapchat that often show real patients undergoing procedures in real time. These South Florida surgeons — who practice under a variety of titles — are exposing each other’s mistakes, battling negative patient reviews, swiping each other’s... Read More