A man already facing drug and weapons charges in Miami-Dade County is in Broward County’s Main Jail facing more charges that include armed sexual battery, kidnapping, burglary and grand theft. Shawn Michael Wright, 28, was booked into Broward’s jail on Wednesday, records show. Wright is accused of a pre-dawn crime spree on Dec. 12 that involved break-ins in at least two homes and three vehicles in the upscale Hollywood Oaks community resulting in the theft of more than $8,500 worth of... Read More
EVANSVILLE, HERE WE COME: Sharks Win Regional Title, Advance to Elite Eight
David Dennis leads the way with 28 points in 89-74 triumph over Lynn FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – One night after watching the Nova Southeastern women’s basketball team win the NCAA South Region Championship, the men’s side matched them with a trophy of their own. Playing in the NCAA Division II Men’s Basketball Tournament for the first time in program history, the Sharks took care of business every step of the way to book their trip to the Elite Eight in Evansville, Ind., culminating in... Read More
Florida House panel approves guns for teachers
A Florida House committee voted Thursday for a broad school safety bill that would expand an existing guardian program to allow classroom teachers to volunteer to carry weapons on campus if local school boards approve. The Republican-led legislation adopted 11-5 along party lines by the House Education Committee builds on a law passed after last year’s mass shooting that killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. Teachers would not be required to carry... Read More
House panel approves guns for teachers
A Florida House committee voted Thursday for a broad school safety bill that would expand an existing guardian program to allow classroom teachers to volunteer to carry weapons on campus if local school boards approve. The Republican-led legislation adopted 11-5 along party lines by the House Education Committee builds on a law passed after last year’s mass shooting that killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. Teachers would not be required to carry... Read More
Learning to Love Modern Day Lepers
As Christian doctors and development workers take on tuberculosis, trust is key to the cure. “It would be better to die than to suffer this way,” Fathia says, wiping her hands together with finality. She sits across from me at the Caritas medical center in Djibouti, crying. I’m trying not to cry. I’m also trying not to back away as she coughs without covering her mouth. She is a single mother, a refugee from Somalia, and all five of her children have tuberculosis,... Read More
Evangelicals Show No Decline, Despite Trump and Nones
The 2018 General Social Survey reports American evangelicals holding steady, and a surprising uptick for mainline Protestants. Evangelicals in the United States are holding steady at just under a quarter of the population, according to the latest biennial figures from the General Social Survey (GSS), one of the longest-running, consistent measures of religion in the US. Despite the quick pace of news and week-to-week political polling, it’s longitudinal tools like the GSS that give... Read More
On trial for murder, Miami man charged with ordering assassination of key witness
In January, Julio Morris was days away from his murder trial when a key eyewitness was gunned down in an ambush attack in North Miami-Dade. The trial was postponed. This … Click to Continue » ... Read More
Tennessee football player arrested after punching police officer, Miami Beach cops say
A University of Tennessee football player was arrested early Thursday during the school’s Spring Break after punching a cop in South Beach, according to an arrest affidavit. Kenneth George, Jr., … Click to Continue » ... Read More
Serial rapist confessed to South Florida woman’s murder. A serial killer was really to blame.
Ronald Henry Stewart’s confession closed the case of the 1983 murder of Regina Harrison in Hollywood. Stewart died in prison 11 years ago. He would have been there regardless of the murder — he had also pleaded guilty to multiple rapes and was sentenced to 50 years in prison for each of those crimes. But Stewart, prosecutors now say, was no killer. The Broward State Attorney’s Office filed a motion in court to vacate Stewart’s conviction after another dead man confessed to... Read More
Reward increased to $25K to catch teen’s killer
The reward to catch the killer of a Pembroke Pines teenager has been increased to $25,000. Anonymous donors contributed $22,000 to the standard $3,000 Broward Crime Stoppers reward to find whoever was responsible for the killing of Ameer Mustafa, police and Crimestoppers announced Wednesday. Mustafa, 18, was gunned down just before 5 a.m. Jan. 15 in the Cobblestone residential community, bordering the west side of Interstate 75 between Pines Boulevard and Pembroke Road, investigators... Read More