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• 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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  Healthcare

  Abused, isolated: the hard life of little Anubis Day

  Anubis Day and more than 200 other Florida children are at the heart of a bitter fight over the state’s practice of putting frail children into nursing homes.
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  Drug addiction

  As pill mills fade away, heroin fills the void

  There are signs that heroin is returning as a cheap alternative to prescription pills, the by-product of Florida’s successful crackdown on pill mills.
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  MEDICINE

  Mother in need of kidney gets the best present from her son

  When Gloria Morrison took ill and needed a kidney transplant, the only suitable donor was her youngest son Paul.

• Teenager critically injured after being run over by Broward County Transit bus

  Witnesses say a Broward bus pulled away after the door closed on a teenager’s arm.
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  TRANSPORTATION

  Airport employees: We’re exposed to blood and vomit

  Union files complaint with OSHA and the Department of Transportation that wheelchair attendants work in an ‘unsafe’ environment.
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  POLITICS

  Charlie Crist, reversing course, comes out for gay marriage

  Charlie Crist, a possible Democratic candidate for Florida governor, now says he supports gay marriage.

• HOLLYWOOD

  Hollywood, police union headed to negotiations

  Hollywood is about to offer 13 percent raises for its police officers, but is that enough to repair a damaged relationship?
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  HOLLYWOOD

  Hollywood tower goes for the natural look

  A Hollywood water tower is getting a makeover to match its natural surroundings.

• HOLLYWOOD

  Hollywood police and fire hold open house on Saturday

  Firefighters will rappel down a building, put out a fire and show how they rescue a passenger trapped in a smashed car. Police will show how they handle armed gunmen and work with their K-9 counterparts.

• PEMBROKE PINES

  North Perry Airport celebrates 55 years with vintage plane show

  Travel through time on Saturday as Broward County celebrates the 55th anniversary of North Perry Airport.

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