Broward County News

With unemployment at a 25-year high, job seekers such as Broward County, Fla., interior designer Jerry Johnson think a little nip, tuck or peel might be the answer to getting work.

A woman pulled from a burning home in Broward County is being treated in a hospital with critical injuries.

A handshake should have ended a quarrel between a man and his mother's boyfriend Tuesday afternoon - but family members and authorities say that boyfriend ended it his own way, shooting his girlfriend's son in the stomach before running away.

Authorities say former major leaguer Jim Leyritz has been arrested and accused of battery in South Florida.

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A Davie man with a chronic heart problem has died of swine flu, becoming the first in Broward County and the third in Florida to succumb to the newly emerged H1N1 virus, medical officials said today.

Officials say dozens of disoriented baby sea turtles were rescued from a storm drain in South Florida hours after they hatched on the beach.

Death Row inmate John Richard Marek's attorney will go before the Florida Supreme Court at 9 a.m. today to plead that his client not be put to death for a 1983 Broward County murder.

NAPLES: The Naples Fire Department has a new chief. Stephen McInerny II, 48, replaced Jim McEvoy who retired June 12th.

Smokers will pay an additional $1 tax on a pack of cigarettes under one of 65 new state laws going into effect Wednesday, including a $66.5 billion budget.

At least four were strippers. One was hospitalized following a suicide attempt. Another woman had a history of eight arrests, three for DUI.

Gay rights 40 years after Stonewall Helping animal shelters CERT Training Little girl needs a new heart Glass of wine leads to arrest Time is running out Sweetbay Beef Recall A chilling revelation Could the rape and murder of Coralrose Fullwood have been videotaped? One man says it was and he knows where the tape is.

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A tiny cracked skull. Forehead, chin, arms, legs covered in bruises. Jada Woodson was 2 when she died while in the custody of a woman who had agreed to care for the girl while the toddler's mother served a prison sentence.

Riding her pink bike in front of her house, 6-year-old Nakaylah Smith says she noticed the neighbor's pit bull staring at her.

As word of Michael Jackson's death spread, a Coral Springs fan had a dangerous confrontation with a man over a comment made on a Broward County Transit bus.

Authorities say they have arrested two people in the beating of an elderly South Florida man with a hammer during a home robbery.

Another salvo has been fired Tuesday in the war over Sheriff Al Lamberti's spending - the County Commission agreed to study a takeover of the jail system.

A van loaded with volatile chemicals crashed into the back of a transit bus Wednesday afternoon, sending nine people to hospitals and shutting down a segment of Weston Road for more than three hours, according to the Broward Sheriff's Office.

The Broward School Board voted unanimously tonight to lay off nearly 400 teachers, despite pleas from more than 150 parents, teachers and students - mostly from West Broward High School - to keep them in their jobs.