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• Injured Port Everglades worker rescued

  A 52-year-old worker was injured at Port Everglades Sunday afternoon when a cargo container shifted and landed on his leg, trapping him.
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  BROWARD

  Broward drivers navigate the I-595 nightmare

  Drivers navigate closed ramps, exits being changed, and signs warning of changing traffic patterns.

• Woman, 68, struck and killed by bus at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport

  A bus struck and killed a woman at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport Saturday afternoon.

• One killed, two injured in crash on Florida’s Turnpike in Miramar

  Officials say a car stopped in the left lane was struck from behind and caught on fire

• Police search for West Park hit-and-run driver

  West Park hit and run crash sends man to hospital with serious injuries.
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  Father son rescued from swamped airboat in the Everglades

  Rescuers pulled a father and teenaged son out of the Everglades Friday afternoon after their airboat took on water and sank.

• Gala honors South Florida black business leaders

  Legacy Magazine is holding its ninth annual Legacy Power Weekend honoring 50 black businessmen and women Friday and Saturday in Weston.

• Journalist Soledad O’Brien to speak at Broward youth event

  The Town Hall meeting is to push youth to talk about what’s important to them, according to organizers.
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  Judge issues warrant for Chad ‘Ochocinco’ Johnson

  Chad Johnson, the former football player and ‘Dancing with the Stars’ contestant, has been ordered to jail for violating his probation.

• Couple killed while crossing the street in Margate

  Two people were struck and killed Monday as they tried to cross State Road 7 in Margate.

• Toddler in serious condition after hit-run in Fort Lauderdale

  A toddler was seriously injured in a hit-and-run accident in front of his Fort Lauderdale home, according to police.
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  A Fork on the Road

  Sustainable seafood stars at Wild Sea on Las Olas

  The Riverside Hotel in Fort Lauderdale turned 75 this year, and as part of the celebration debuted Wild Sea Oyster Bar & Grill in an elegant space that retains Old Florida charm. All the seafood is wild caught except the oysters and Sunburst trout, and much of the produce is locally grown.

• HOLLYWOOD

  Hollywood commission OKs school next to senior citizen community

  The developers of a shuttered recreation building in Hillcrest — a predominantly senior community — got the go-ahead to open a charter school in the fall that will eventually house 850 students.
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  FLORIDA PANTHERS

  Florida Panthers get $4.2 million grant for new scoreboard – after a scolding

  Florida Panthers president Michael Yormark looked as if he had been called into the principal’s office for good portions of Tuesday’s meeting with the Broward County Commission.

• HOLLYWOOD

  Hollywood commission to vote Wednesday on charter school next to senior residential community

  The Hollywood Commission will consider giving final approval to a proposal to put a charter school in Hillcrest, a community where the majority of the residents are 55 years old and older, on Wednesday.

• HALLANDALE BEACH

  Hallandale Beach leaders may require companies doing business with city to offer domestic partnership benefits

  The Hallandale Beach City Commission on Wednesday could join Broward County in requiring any companies that provide work for the city to offer domestic partner benefits to all employees.
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  BROWARD COUNTY

  Seniors spellbound at Broward competition

  Senior citizens come on strong, spelling their way to bragging rights.
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  Gambling

  Despite law, cities quiet on kids’ gaming machines

  Machines at children and adult arcades — which sometimes have payouts valued in the hundreds of dollars — were also outlawed in a new law cracking down on video gambling, but no one appears ready to march into them to take the devices out.
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  PEMBROKE PINES

  Seniors celebrate their b’nai mitzvah at Pembroke Pines synagogue

  A group of five seniors prepared for months to celebrate the Jewish tradition — usually a rite of passage for youngsters.

• State oversight

  Inside a nursing home: cartoons, tunes and tears

  A recent inspection at one nursing home caring for children found significant shortcomings.

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