A motorcyclist was thrown from his bike, then run over after a car rear-ended him in Pembroke Pines on Wednesday, according to police.
The son of Broward County property appraiser Lori Parrish was stunned with a Taser and arrested Wednesday after Fort Lauderdale police said he tried running over one of their officers, then refused to follow the officer's orders.
Oozi wasn't just Deputy Jerry Wengert's partner, or even just his best friend -- he was like a son. A furry fellow who didn't like the rain. A 75-pound dog who liked to sit on Wengert's lap. A canine escape artist who helped himself to food at a block party.
A 13-year-old girl, reported missing by her family three weeks ago, was found dead near a garbage bin in Fort Lauderdale, police said Wednesday.
A woman died Wednesday afternoon when her car struck a guardrail and concrete wall on Interstate 75, the Florida Highway Patrol said.
A man found floating in a Hollywood canal Tuesday has been identified as Casey Joe Gibson, 25, of Hollywood. Gibson's body was found about 7:40 a.m. at Stanley Goldman Memorial Park in Hollywood, located on Knights Road near Johnson Street.
A tree struck by lightning broke in half, crushing a mobile home in Miramar Wednesday afternoon, authorities said. The home, where two adults and two children lived, is uninhabitable, said Miramar Fire Rescue Battalion Chief Bill Huff. No one was injured.
The sabal palm, Florida's state tree, is under attack by a microscopic killer that has scientists stumped. An unknown but growing number of sabal palms in the Tampa Bay area have died from a mysterious disease that researchers are struggling to identify. Even after scientists pinpoint the disease -- and that could take years -- they will have to learn what insect spreads it. The disease will be tough to stop.
A fire has engulfed a home in Southwest Ranches. Several engines from the Broward Sheriff's Office Fire Rescue are at the home at 5521 SW 195th Terr., trying to douse the blaze, BSO said.
Guests at the Fort Lauderdale Grande had a jarring wake-up call Wednesday morning: a possible gas leak and a forced evacuation. Hazmat crews from Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue ultimately determined it was nothing serious -- aside from the imposition to vacationers.
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Oozi, a Broward Sheriff's Office K-9, died during a shootout in a Miami Beach hospital parking lot with a man who led cops on a high-speed chase through Broward and Miami-Dade counties early Thursday, according to BSO.
Eleanor Adderley, the wife of the Fort Lauderdale police chief, sent a text message to her husband asking where his gun was minutes before shooting at him, according to a search warrant released Wednesday.
ORLANDO -- (AP) -- A group petitioning to ban gay marriage filed a lawsuit Thursday against Broward County and a Sunrise police officer, claiming the sergeant violated volunteers' civil rights during a petition drive.
