Broward County News

Deputies say Jona Lilavois wandered from her family's Lauderdale Lakes home Friday afternoon.

Miami's NBC 6 reports the Broward County Department of Health has posted advisory signs at Dania Beach, Custer Street Beach, Harrison Street and Hallandale Beach Boulevard.

A Pompano Beach man has been arrested for two counts of aggravated assault with a firearm after barricading himself in his house early Saturday, police said, in the second SWAT team situation Broward County has seen in the past few days .

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - The death of former Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences president Karen Pletz has been ruled a suicide, a Florida medical examiner said on Friday.

Thousands of Broward County children are now going home after a full school day with full stomachs, thanks to a new program that provides free, healthy suppers for schoolchildren.A More than 120 students at Oriole Elementary School in Lauderdale Lakes are eating a hot meal before leaving school for the day.A "When they're here and they eat this ... (more)

A Port Orange man has been identified as the assailant who gunned down a Canadian man and later stabbed his family, killing his 9-year-old son, at a Broward County RV campground, authorities said.

StLToday.com: Missouri schools test four-day week Some rural Missouri schools are taking Mondays off as part of a cost-cutting measure.

In late January, Jason Burns did something that few Floridians do mid-winter. He climbed into his car in Ft.

Coming to a Broward location near you this tax season: An RV filled with workers who will help low-income families fill out their federal tax returns free of charge.

The president of an Oakland Park title company was charged with wire fraud for her participation in a mortgage fraud scheme where Bank of America According to the criminal complaint, Austin-Wilks was president and director at Direct Title & Escrow Services.

Authorities say a barricaded man killed himself and two others following a standoff at a South Florida recreational vehicle park.

Ashira Morris is a sophomore journalism major at the University of Florida, where she is a staff writer for The Fine Print.

PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. - Red-light camera tickets are getting to drivers' mailboxes as usual, but a processing delay means there won't be any consequences for more than 5,000 drivers if they just don't pay.

A gunman was holding at least one hostage inside a recreational vehicle in Deerfield Beach late Thursday, said the Broward County Sheriff's Office.

Surveillance video captured the thief walking into a Home Depot along 441 in West Park and taking off with more than $800 in merchandise.

No, I haven't been spurned again . It's just that some of us are convinced it's a made-up holiday pushed on us because we haven't spent any money since Christmas, and Easter's still a ways off .

Judge John Hurley ruled that a man involved in a dispute with his wife must take her out to dinner and bowling and then get counseling.

Police say a man and woman face child neglect charges after they were found with a toddler whose burned right hand was missing one finger and had two more "partial" fingers.

Do your children love castles, knights, dragons and anything medieval? Then head over to the 20th Annual Florida Renaissance Festival in Deerfield Beach.

The Department of Children and Families had custody of the 2-year-old girl on Thursday.