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College students make their descent on Fort Lauderdale beach for Spring Break. Online travel website CheapOair analyzed booking trends and found that Fort Lauderdale is the second-most popular spring destination for college-aged travelers in the United States for 2019. ... Read More

A woman from Fort Lauderdale is dead after her truck was crushed by a semi trailer Sunday afternoon. The woman, who has not yet been identified, was in her Ford F150, which became wedged under the overturned semi at Southern Boulevard and State Road 700, according to Florida Highway Patrol. The woman was driving south on State Road 700 about 3:30 p.m. when a semi, heading west on Southern Boulevard, attempted to turn right onto 700. The driver of the semi, identified as 33-year-old Yadier... Read More

An emergency repair to Fort Lauderdale’s water system prompted the city to issue a boil-water notice Sunday night. The city is urging residents on the east side of Hendricks Isle, from number 28 to 535, to boil all water before ingesting it, using it for cooking, brushing teeth or washing dishes. “A rolling boil of one minute is sufficient,” the city said in a notice. “As an alternative, bottled water may be used.” Residents with questions should call 954-828-8000. The city... Read More

It was every last-second shot in basketball, every bottom-of-the-ninth swing in baseball, every Hail Mary pass for the win in football you take in your dreams as a kid. “Everybody dreams about having that put on the 18th hole to win a tournament,” Keith Mitchell said. “I had that putt .” Fifteen feet. Slightly uphill with a break. Sink it and Mitchell wins The Honda Classic. Miss it and he remains the nobody he’d been right to this moment. Mitchell, in fact, showed a text he’d... Read More

Elson Silencieux was upset over payment for doing work on a home so he got in his van and hit a mother and daughter, Delray Beach police said. The mother, … Click to Continue » ... Read More

A second federal agency is dispatching investigators to a fatal crash involving a Tesla electric car that drove beneath a semitrailer that was crossing State Road 7. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which has authority to seek recalls, issue fines and set regulations, said Saturday that it will send a “field team” to West Delray, where 50-year-old Jeremy Beren Banner was killed in the crash Friday. The crash is eerily similar to another one involving a Tesla in... Read More

For all the talk about this year’s Honda Classic not being the same without as many top players in a depleted field, it still turned in quite the exciting finish. It had two of the top 10 players in the world tied for a lead in the clubhouse, seeing if their Sunday would extend to a playoff as a young PGA Tour sophomore shot for the win. It had a 56-year-old vying for his first PGA title in over a decade. And it had a six-way tie down the final stretch broken up by a player winning his... Read More

A man was killed and a 10-year-old was injured in a shooting outside Dave & Buster’s in Hollywood, reports say. Early Sunday morning, just after midnight, the man was shot in the parking lot of the arcade in the Oakwood Plaza near Sheridan Street and Interstate 95, reports WSVN-Ch. 7. He was taken to Memorial Regional Hospital, where he died, according to WPLG-Ch. 10. The child was also taken there but later released, police said. No information was available about the victims, what... Read More

Weeks after a documentary exposing injustices at a South Florida for-profit immigration detention center debuted at a national film festival, Claudio Rojas— the film’s inside source— was arrested by U.S. … Click to Continue » ... Read More