Fort Lauderdale News

Picture yourself on a private balcony just outside your luxurious stateroom sipping an adult beverage and looking at lush tropical islands as your ship sails through the Caribbean.

A longtime Broward Sheriff's Office employee who was recently recognized for her courageous spirit died of cancer on Monday.

It's the yucky part of high school science classes - dissecting frog organs or slicing open a stretched-out earthworm.

Tow truck drivers are leaving misery in their exhaust fumes, operating in frequent and flagrant violation of a new Broward law meant to protect drivers from towing abuses, a Sun Sentinel investigation has found.

As in the past, there are White Parties all over Florida from Tampa, Fort Lauderdale down to Miami during Memorial Day Weekend.

One man is in custody and a second is being sought in connection with a shooting outside a food store near Fort Lauderdale that could leave the victim a quadriplegic if he lives, authorities said.

A Broward taxi driver was home recovering on Thursday after he says he was attacked by two women in his cab.

Fort Lauderdale is presenting its annual Memorial Day weekend beach bash, but getting to and leaving from the sand may be a hassle.

This week started off with the Alibi's 16th anniversary, which started on Wednesday and went through Saturday.

A man who caused a crash that killed four family members near Fort Lauderdale must give up his driver's license.

There's just something in the summer air that makes celebrating our lady 'murica feel especially right.

The newest party trend that's rolling through Fort Lauderdale is giving people a new way to bar hop and get a good workout at the same time.

You'd have to have been hiding under a rock for quite some time to not have noticed the recent surge in 'gastropubs' serving up comfort food and craft beers.

A South Florida cab driver is recovering from injuries he suffered after, according to him, two women in his cab choked him, punched him and robbed him.

Sean White has a nice list of offers and has been working hard to impress coaches this spring.

Small communities can be amazing places in which to live. But they can also be the source of stultifying existences in which every move is documented, reputations assigned rather than earned and a place from which many desperately long to escape.

A showdown is brewing between Fort Lauderdale and the Ohio-based company that has long held gun shows at the city-owned War Memorial Auditorium.

A routine trip to tow an illegally parked car ended up with a baby being pepper-sprayed, a false report of shots fired and the tow truck driver arrested on bribery charges.

Author Dennis Lehane has been hired to pen the script for the sleuth drama "Travis McGee" at 20th Century Fox.

Here's an interesting development related to the Scott Rothstein scandal: Rothstein's criminal defense attorney, Marc Nurik, has a new, informal alliance with veteran Fort Lauderdale attorney William Scherer.