Working smoke alarms can mean the difference between life and death when it comes to house fires. Each year 3,000 people die in residential fires in the United States. On Thursday, November 4, the Broward Sheriff’s Office is announcing a countywide free battery exchange program to promote proper smoke alarm use. Scheduled to attend this [...]
Join the community at a Weekend of Peace Celebration as we come together to celebrate peace and understanding in honor of the International Day of Peace. The first event will be held on Friday, September 17 at 7:45 a.m. at the International Peace Garden, adjacent to the Coral Springs Center for the Arts, 2855 Coral [...]
The county police are looking for a male who stabbed a victim on the city bus this afternoon in North Lauderdale. The Broward Sheriff’s Office has released a video of the man in hopes of identifying him. The Broward Sheriff’s Office is looking for a male in his 20’s who boarded the southbound bus at [...]
Editor’s note: Video is a Lou Lautin Production (www.lewlautinphotographer.com) It was all about the arts Tuesday afternoon as art teachers and their supporters gathered on Las Olas, near the Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, to protest planned budget cuts to arts, music, library and PE programs, primarily in the elementary schools.
Attorney General Bill McCollum sent a letter, today, March 17, to Secretary of State Kurt Browning asking the Department to update its administrative rules on the retention guidelines for other types of electronic communication. The request was made after the conclusion of the Attorney General’s Sunshine Technology Team, which determined that electronic communications were not [...]
When two masked men went into the Champ’s Food Store on the afternoon of Dec. 21 and aggressively pointed guns at the clerk while they robbed the store, there were witnesses. Though no one came forward with information for Broward Sheriff’s Office robbery detectives investigating the crime, surveillance video shows a man in a green [...]
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Broward just got a little greener with the opening of the new Children’s Services Council building in Lauderhill on Nov. 19. In 2000, voters approved a new property tax to provide services to children and families in Broward County. Several years ago, the council recognized they would need a permanent home as the council’s services [...]
Broward County has a new mayor. During Tuesday’s commission meeting, the Broward County commission unanimously voted to appoint Dist. 4 commissioner Ken Keechl as mayor. “Ken is a credit to our community and it is (his) turn for leadership,” said outgoing mayor Stacy Ritter. “The role of mayor is more involved, more demanding on time…good [...]
A popular item that is used at holiday time is the propane gas powered turkey fryer. These are readily available and inexpensive but can be unsafe, according to the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) and Underwriters Laboratories (UL). The NFPA discourages the use of turkey fryers except by properly trained professionals using professional quality equipment. [...]
An update from Florida Sen. George LeMieux on his perspective of things in Washington D.C. If you would like real-time news and views of what is going on in Washington from Sen. George LeMieux, follow him on Twitter. Visit http://www.twitter.com/George_LeMieux. Health Care Update: Approved House Bill NOT What the Doctor Ordered. As I have said [...]
Instead of paying the steep price tag for a stiff drink from a cask strength, limited edition bottle of Johnnie Walker Blue, a man grabbed the collector’s item, shoved it into his pants and moseyed out of a Weston liquor store undetected. The suspect was slick about his approach. After removing the bottle from the [...]
Two smash-and-grab burglars used a cement parking stone to break the glass front door of a Lauderdale Lakes dollar store Tuesday morning and walked out with the cash register. Luckily, there was only about $20 in change in the cash drawer and surveillance video captured the entire escapade. [bubblecast id=284767] Shortly after 6:30 a.m., before [...]
A bank teller’s morning got off to a bad start when, just minutes after opening for business, her very first customer robbed her without saying a word. At around 9:05 a.m. September 25, a well-dressed man walked into the American National Bank, 4301 North Federal Highway, Oakland Park and approached a teller. The man didn’t [...]
Well after midnight Friday, an urgent knock at the front door of a North Lauderdale house awakened a 13-year-old boy sleeping inside. The woman outside asked for his mother, claiming to be her cousin. Not recognizing the voice, the teen didn’t open the door. A surveillance camera mounted just over the front door showed Broward [...]
One masked man pointed a handgun and the other pointed his finger Thursday night as the two criminals robbed a Tamarac convenience store. The robbery was captured on surveillance video, and Broward Sheriff’s Office detectives are hoping someone recognizes the two men. At 7:11 p.m., the two walked into the Sunoco Food Mart. The first [...]
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQLCuEe32j4 Broward Sheriff’s Office Homicide and Crime Scene detectives have arrested a second suspect in the murder of a 39-year-old wife and mother, savagely killed at her Oakland Park workplace Monday morning. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQLCuEe32j4 Tesfaye (Tes-fie-ee)”Tes” Ritchie, 22, is the older brother of Karari Ritchie, 20, who was arrested Tuesday. Tes went with Karari to [...]
Broward Sheriff’s Office robbery detectives are releasing surveillance video in the hopes of identifying two armed suspects who robbed a fast food restaurant in Oakland Park. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwuccTxIuEE] On Wednesday, July 1 shortly before 11 p.m., the armed thugs were captured by security cameras as they burst into the Subway restaurant at 4911 North Andrews Avenue [...]
By Andrea Freygang In the spirit of Independence Day, protestors gathered around different federal offices and buildings this week to protest the increased government programs, taxes and also the planned universal health care program. Amidst tea parties, petitions to support or rally against amendments, medical marijuana and other issues, Americans in South Florida recognized Independence [...]
A pawn shop crook got caught on camera with his hand in the jewelry case. Now detectives need help identifying him and his female accomplice. For weeks, detectives have been following leads trying to track down the duo that pulled off the daytime theft at the Pawn Max in Lauderdale Lakes after distracting store employees. [...]
Two would-be robbers didn’t have it their way at a local Burger King when their failed robbery attempt was caught on the fast food restaurant’s surveillance video system.[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jS2-qT6A0U] A witness saw the two sitting in a two-door, black or navy blue, older model sports utility vehicle outside Burger King on Stirling Road in Dania Beach [...]
The bank robber thought he had an excellent plan with a foolproof escape. He parked his car in the rear parking lot of a nearby business across the street from his target, walked to the front of the business, went across the street and into the bank, committed the robbery, calmly walked back across the [...]
Most people would rather live without a DVD and VCR player than go to jail for stealing one, but two Broward County teens might find that having sticky fingers may earn them a free trip to the Broward Regional Juvenile Detention Center. Surveillance video from Park Lakes Elementary School in Lauderdale Lakes shows a young [...]
A man walked into an Oakland Park women’s clinic Wednesday afternoon and asked to use the bathroom. Employees pointed him in the right direction, but he returned the favor by pulling out a handgun and robbing the clinic. Four employees and no patients were in the clinic at the time. One woman ran out the [...]
Two men who appear to be in no hurry used a bolt cutter to get through a gate at a Pembroke Park business and left with thousands of dollars worth of tools. The only thing the duo left behind was surveillance video of the entire crime. Shortly after 1 p.m. March 15, an SUV that [...]
