Plantation News

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The Florida Department of Children and Families' Westside Service Center at 7579-6 103rd Street has been closed, the state announced Tuesday.

The Plantation Athletic League, the volunteer-run sports organization that since 1960 has honed the skills of tens of thousands of children, is days away from being disbanded.

Retired auto mechanic Jacob Richard Froess went to cash a check at his long-time branch of AmTrust Bank in Plantation, Fla., when a teller asked him why he was sitting on $100,000 in savings.

Claudia and Roy Semplenski have listed for sale a four-bedroom, 3.5-bath home at 10140 S.W. Third St.

The mayor's deadline for information she demanded has come and gone, and the Plantation Athletic League won't be allowed to operate after next week.

A falling tree injured a man and another knocked down power lines in Broward County as thunderstorms pummeled the area with rain and winds Tuesday morning.

Sure, President Obama's ears are big, but he's got a helluva lot of people competing for their attention.

PLANTATION, FL, June 20, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- PRC, LLC, a leading provider of outsourced customer contact management services, announced that Ken B. Pelissero has been appointed Vice President Controller.

On May 28, 2009, the Broward Healthy Start MomCare Program hosted a baby shower at Delevoe Park in the 33311 zip code from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and had approximately 50 pregnant attendees and several expectant fathers in attendance.

Weston Hills Country Club had to discard chicken, hamburger, beef and hot dogs because inspectors investigating a possible food poisoning death found a cooler was malfunctioning, according to a state report obtained today.

The Florida Lottery announced today that four tickets matched all five winning numbers in Thursday's Fantasy 5 drawing, splitting a $207,281.16 top prize.

A sign on the door said "No more puppies available," but dozens of abandoned dogs could be heard barking inside the darkened Pembroke Pines pet shop Thursday morning.

Police have arrested two burglary suspects and continue to search for a third robber still on the run.

The second victim of a man who shot and killed his ex-girlfriend at a Chevron gas station in Plantation died of head injuries, not gunshot wounds, police said Monday.

I'm working on so much interesting stuff it's not even funny, but none of it is just ripe yet, so I'll just share with you an anecdote from my son's last school day.

This summer, many South Florida teenagers won't be able to land a seasonal job. "It is going to be dire," said Mason Jackson, president of Broward County's Workforce One, whose job program for teens age 16 to 18 is filled.

Consumed by grief over a breakup with his girlfriend, a Plantation man bashed her at least a half-dozen times in the head with a sledgehammer.

Two men have been arrested and two more are being sought in the gang-rape of a 15-year-old girl at gunpoint, Plantation police say.

According to documents purportedly leaked by AT&T , a Motorola handset originally slated to run Windows Mobile has changed Operating Systems mid-stream, and will be released with Android by the end of 2009's third quarter.