Parkland News

Authorities found a 36-year-old man with a serious neck wound lying in the street at Holmberg Road and Riverside Drive on Tuesday afternoon.

Some businesses say the Yellow Book has some explaining to do after hundreds of advertising based phone directories are found in a Hollywood dumpster.

On most Sunday afternoons, they'd be indoors - at church, at home playing video games, watching television or doing laundry and other chores to prepare for the week ahead.

Just recently, Jennifer Baxt completed her doctorate in marriage and family therapy.

Richard A. Reposa and his wife, Maria, bought a five-bedroom, three-bathroom home at 6445 NW 72nd Way in Parkland for $850,000 from Rodney A. Lampert on May 28.

This handsome spot with a Far East minimalist ambience awaits visitors with a room-length sushi bar and a menu filled with sparkling Asian fare.

What was supposed to have been a sedate 'Meet Your Mayors' breakfast this morning turned into a heated debate over Amendment 5, which will ask voters in November whether they want to replace the school ...

Work recently began on a $2.7 million improvement project that will include resurfacing and widening two-lane Holmberg Road in Parkland.

Broward's at a loss.

Twenty-six of the county's 31 municipalities lost population and three of them - Hollywood, Coral Springs and Pembroke Pines - made the Top 10 list of fastest-shrinking large cities from 2006 to 2007, according to U.S. census estimates released today.

The percentage losses - the worst of any Florida county - are an amazing turnaround from the 1990s, when Coral Springs and Pembroke Pines regularly ranked near the top of the country's fastest-growing hot spots.

Yog Rishi Swami Ramdev , 5 p.m. Sunday at South Florida Hindu Temple, 13010 W. Griffin Road, Southwest Ranches.

Heather, 10, of Parkland, was seeded 27th heading into the recent regional competition in Chattanooga, Tenn., after placing sixth at the Level 8 state meet.

One of the city's prized equine statues has been hit again and destroyed.

Patrick Donnelly, of Parkland, was given five citations for slamming into the statue in the traffic circle at Parkside Drive and Holmberg Road on June 29.

According to the Broward Sheriff's Office report, Donnelly was traveling 50 mph when he fell asleep, hit the statue and left the scene. Deputies tracked him down and issued citations, including failure to keep to the right in the traffic circle and failure to report an accident.

Parkland officials are toying with the idea of making the city's two elementary schools share a school resource officer next year. Both currently have their own deputy.

'School resource deputies are a luxury to have in elementary schools,' Mayor Michael Udine said. 'We will have another elementary school in two years. It's unclear whether [a school resource officer] for each elementary school is going to be sustainable.'

Udine said he will consider the idea if it will not have an effect on traffic in front of the schools.

Some would say it's hip to be green.

If that's true, then Tamarac just earned some 'cool' points.

Last week it became the first Broward County municipality to be green-certified by the Florida Green Building Coalition, leading the trend of eco-friendly cities in South Florida.

They mirror popular culture, with celebrities hawking such green products as organic T-shirts, hemp shower curtains and vegan stilettos.

'Are we ever going to catch up with places like California or Oregon? No, because they had a head-start on us,' said Rob Hink, president of the South Florida chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council, the national organization that handles the certification. 'But if you look at the projects being registered, we are starting to come up to par with them.' Tamarac's certification won't be Broward's last. Davie has already started the certification process and other cities such as Cooper City and Pembroke Pines are seeking participants for green advisory boards.

Only 6 percent of South Floridians named the war as a top issue in a Miami Herald poll released this week.

In a 30-minute decision Thursday, Broward County jurors rejected felony vehicular homicide and instead convicted a Parkland man of misdemeanor reckless driving for running a red light and killing a community stalwart.

Blair Mrachek, 25, is now looking at a maximum 90-day jail sentence rather than 15 years in prison.

Mrachek was not injured in the March 2005 afternoon crash that killed Douglas Endsley, 69, of Boca Raton , who headed Broward County 's United Way for nearly two decades.

The Broward County School Board gave initial approval Wednesday to its five-year school construction plan, curtailed because of a $250 million cut in state money to the school district for the 2008-09 school ...

As the teacher of the first-year Japanese program at Western High School, Satoko Fisher wanted to make sure her students understood more than just the language of her country.

A $2.7 million resurfacing project is under way along Holmberg Road, from State Road 7 to Parkside Drive.

The Broward County School District on Tuesday began creating one of the state's first districtwide policies to stop and prevent school bullying.

The board unanimously gave initial approval to its anti-bullying policy, which has been in the works for a year and complies with recently passed legislation requiring every school district to create programs to prevent bullying.

The board must vote a second time at its July 22 meeting for the policy to become official. State law requires school districts to have anti-bullying policies in place by Dec. 1.