Broward County News Archives

Palm Beach, FL - Horatio Chiorean has over 10 years experience in the appliance industry as a research engineer for a major appliance company.

A person was killed and another transferred to a hospital after a train collided with their vehicle in South Florida.

FORT LAUDERDALE - A small plane landed near a highway toll plaza in South Florida.

Is your wife hot ... or not? A billboard battle along South Florida's busiest roads revolves around that very question.

The world's largest rubber band ball will be transported from Florida's Broward County to a Ripley's Believe it or Not warehouse in Orlando.

A family has been left shattered, after a young son accused of killing his little brother faced a judge.

A murder suspect who left his car running in a Broward County street couldn't get away because a woman took the keys from the ignition.

Two teens have been arrested and authorities were searching for two others they say were involved with attacking a Pompano Beach homeless man.

Travelers heading to Cuba could soon be able to catch a flight from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.

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Gov. Charlie Crist has appointed attorney Kevin Tynan to the Broward County School Board, replacing the suspended Beverly Gallagher.

It was an easy question that any politician should have been able to answer: What have been your greatest accomplishments in office? But when a Miami Herald reporter e-mailed the question to now-suspended Broward School Board member Beverly Gallagher, she forwarded the request for comment to lobbyists Neil Sterling and Barbara Miller with a note: ...

President Barack Obama's declaration of swine flu as a national emergency doesn't mean much to South Florida health officials.

Broward County deputies found a dead body inside a parked truck Sunday. The body was found in a burgundy Ford F-150 parked at a boat ramp along U.S. 27, about a mile from Interstate 75.

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Stonefox headlines Alligator Alley's Saturday send-off. a Sad news for music fans throughout South Florida.

Less than a week after being sentenced to two years of house arrest for impregnating his 15-year-old goddaughter, a Broward minister was in court Thursday asking to go to prison for 18 months instead.

First he attacked Nobel Prize-winning author Elie Wiesel in a San Franicsco elevator.

The Ohio Department of Natural Resources announced today that Dan West would step down as Ohioa TMs parks and recreation chief on Oct.

She is the first to admit that secrets have a short shelf-life around her. Yet Sheila Alu, a Sunrise commissioner and state prosecutor, managed to keep her role as an FBI informant secret from her family for four years, not even confiding in her mother or boyfriend.

The person found dead in a pickup truck parked near an Everglades boat ramp was a black man in his 30s, the Broward Sheriff's Office reported today.

The government corruption probe Gov. Charlie Crist asked the Florida Supreme Court for this week could pry into courthouses in Lee County and Collier counties.

South Florida authorities have dismantled a gang that allegedly operated a vast, violent drug ring responsible for at least 18 deaths.

After a short ad, that's the trailer for "The Oxycontin Express," the first episode of this season's Vanguard .

On Saturday, Oct. 17, 2009 the Northwest Federated Woman's Club Senior Center will host a Community Health Fair in celebration of their 71 year anniversary of the North-est Federated Woman's Club from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Also, a Founder's Day Banquet celebration honoring Sandra Hunter, Operations Manager of the Northwest Federated Woman's Club Senior ...

If Anthony Caravella didn't rape and murder a Miramar woman in November 1983, Broward prosecutors want to know who did.

A South Florida gymnastics coach currently jailed in Broward County on child molestation charges was arrested in Illinois and Missouri on similar allegations in the 1990s, authorities said Friday.

Michael Brewer loves his skateboard, SpongeBob and the tree swing in his front yard.

Malissa Durkee holds a framed photo of her brother Michael Brewer, who was hospitalized with burns on more than three-quarters of his body after the attack at a Deerfield Beach apartment complex Monday.

One day after U.S. Rep Robert Wexler announced he is leaving congress to focus on Middle East Peace, South Florida politicians are not wasting any time.

Danny Martinez holds up a photo of his brother-in-law, Michael Brewer, 15, of Deerfield Beach, Florida, who was set on fire Monday afternoon.

Share + Oct 13, 2009 8:55 am US/Eastern FORT LAUDERDALE Suspended Broward County commissioner Josephus Eggelletion is expected to be arraigned Tuesday in federal court.

Broward sheriff's investigators have arrested a third suspect in the fatal beating of an Oakland Park diner patron that occurred in April.

Florida Governor Charlie Crist TALLAHASSEE, FL Florida's Governor Charlie Crist has petitioned the state's Supreme Court today to seat a state-wide Grand Jury to look into political corruption throughout the state, after federal charges were brought against three Broward County officials.

Harold Schueler, the coroner's chief toxicologist in Broward County, Fla., testified Wednesday that Smith was suffering from a bacterial infection before she died.

A woman who was in a coma after a liposuction procedure at a Weston spa has died.

An 8-year-old beagle named Lucy was killed by a swarm of bees that attacked her while she was tethered to a palm tree.

Five juveniles were in custody Tuesday after a 15-year-old was intentionally set on fire at a Deerfield Beach, Florida, apartment complex, police said.

A woman died after undergoing a nonsurgical cosmetic procedure at a medical spa , WPLG-TV in Miami reported.

A 15-year-old boy was badly burned Monday afternoon when he was doused with a flammable liquid and intentionally set on fire, officials said.

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Share + Oct 12, 2009 10:23 am US/Eastern WILTON MANORS, Fla. A Broward County man is being held on elderly neglect and other charges after police found his 78-year-old mother naked and covered in feces.

Broward Circuit Judge Robert Carney looking through the window of the door to his courtrom.

Come publication day, Jorge Moreira Nunes is use to having a knock or two at his Deerfield Beach office door.

The web of influence and deceit portrayed in the federal indictment of Broward County fundraising powerhouse Alan Mendelsohn tells the story of how special-interest cash taints lawmaking in Florida's Capitol.

Share + Oct 9, 2009 7:13 pm US/Eastern LAUDERDALE LAKES, Fla. The Daily Break Food Bank in Broward County lost around 93,000 pounds of food late Thursday night after a fire tore through the food bank's warehouse.

The father of Broward County Mayor Stacy Ritter has been ordered released on bail after he allegedly threatened her with a gun in a political dispute.

Fort Lauderdale Police are investigating a veteran registered nurse who her employers say knowingly violated infection control procedures at Broward General Medical Center, potentially exposing more than 1,800 patients to blood-borne diseases such as HIV, and hepatitis B and C. Police spokesman Sgt.

It is now illegal to text while driving within Parkland city limits. What do you think? Should cities in Palm Beach County follow suit? We want to hear from you.

The suicide of a seven-year-old Florida foster child has state lawmakers enraged and looking for answers.

The latest war in South Florida against sex offenders isn't being waged on the streets or in a crime lab, but behind computer terminals at a Boca Raton-based company.

The father of Broward Mayor Stacy Ritter is being held without bond this morning at the Broward County Jail on charges of armed burglary and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

A nurse at Broward County Medical Center in southern Florida might have exposed more than 1,800 patients undergoing chemical cardiac stress tests to HIV, hepatitis and other blood-borne illnesses by reusing saline bags and tubing during a five-year period, The Miami Herald reports.

A player on the Miami Dolphins practice squad has been arrested after a domestic incident in South Florida.

A Broward Sheriff's deputy was arrested on extortion and drug-possession charges, days after he promised to not bust a marijuana grow-house owner in exchange for cash, Sheriff Al Lamberti said Monday.

West Palm Beach clerk took on Broward County's two largest law firms and prevailed.

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Last year was a good one for Broward County's bad drivers. The county continued a general 5-year decline in traffic citations, with 2008 being the lowest, according to newly released statistics by the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles.

A man convicted of shooting and paralyzing Broward County woman police say he was obsessed with has been sentenced to life in prison.

A good Samaritan stopped traffic on Palm Avenue when she saw two young children about to walk into the street alone, one of them dragging a pillow, WPLG-Ch. 10 reports.

In an odd twist of the public corruption investigation shaking Broward County, a scholarship fund has been forced to admit it hasn't delivered nearly $484,000 of the aid it promised South Florida college students.

Police are inspecting a school van after its driver was found at fault in a wreck that sent seven children and three adults to the hospital in South Florida.