Assistant Hollywood City Manager Richard Lemack will be taking a three-month leave of absence to concentrate on his campaign for Broward County sheriff.
A 4-year-old boy from Miramar may have nine lives -- or at least two. Early Thursday morning the boy jumped from the second-floor balcony of his Miramar home into the bushes. Unscathed, he brushed himself off and wandered around his neighborhood. He stood at a busy intersection in the 3300 block of Dykes Road.
The Florida Highway Patrol will be out in force during the 96-hour Memorial Day holiday weekend, which begins Friday and ends at midnight Monday, the agency has announced.
(AP) -- Police say two Pablo Picasso etchings worth a combined $450,000 have been stolen from a gallery in Palm Beach. Authorities responded about 3:40 a.m. Thursday to an alarm at Gallery Biba. Palm Beach police spokeswoman Janet Kinsella said a glass back door had been smashed and the two etchings were missing.
A father driving his 7-year-old daughter to school Thursday morning collided with a pickup truck in Hollywood. No one was hurt, but it was quite a scare.
A bevy of federal and local agencies continued their investigation into the deaths Tuesday of three men who suffocated aboard a cargo ship at Port Everglades.
Shirley Harold of Lauderhill is grieving. Her great-grandson, J'Mari Johnson, 2, drowned in her backyard pool two months ago, adding another youngster to Broward's high accidental child drowning rate.
Tri-Rail announced Wednesday that it broke another ridership record -- exceeding the 16,000 single-day mark for only the second time in the commuter rail system's history.
FORT LAUDERDALE
While students were looking to dance with their latest crushes at the Fort Lauderdale High fall homecoming dance, one teacher was looking to make a buck, school district officials say.
A spectacular multifloral lady slipper orchid, with long, undulating petals and golden pouches, won grand champion as best plant of the show at the 19th World Orchid Conference, open in Miami through Sunday. Exhibited by Krull-Smith of Apopka, the superbly grown Paphiopedilum Michael Koopowitz is a cross between Paph. philippinense and Paph. sanderianum. The plant is three feet tall and four feet wide, with petals extending 2 ½ feet. Frank Smith, the company owner, said the plant is not...
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.
