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VIDEOI was on my way to the store this afternoon to pick up beer and ice cream for my Picanha BBQ party tomorrow waiting for the light to change at the corner of Pine Island and Commercial in Broward County. Suddenly I spotted a car making a left turn knock a kid off his bike. After a few suspenseful seconds in which I could not see the kid who was on the pavement, he finally got up apparently unharmed but not exactly happy. At this point I started recording the scene on my cell camera. Ultimately, although I wasn't sure...

Police said the teacher, after being repeatedly punched in the face and head, ended up on the ground 'in a fetal position attempting to guard himself against injury.' Two 19-year-old Florida high school students are accused of brutally beating up a teacher in what police called a "synchronized physical attack" that was captured on video. The Fort Lauderdale Police Department told ABC News that Jayvis L. McClover and Roddrick McQueen approached the teacher at Dillard High School around 2 p.m. March 13 and were "verbally threatening to attack him." One student told WPLG in the video that the teacher had...

Florida authorities jailed Jennifer Box for three nights over Christmas on another woman's warrant. Now she's suing, alleging they violated her rights Jennifer Heath Box shivered on a mat on the floor, her back pressed against another inmate's back, as they desperately tried to stay warm. The air conditioning blew a frigid breeze through the Broward County Jail in south Florida. Guards walked by wearing coats and beanies. It was Christmas Eve. Her son, a Marine, was leaving on Dec. 27 to spend three years stationed in Okinawa, Japan. And the police had arrested the wrong "Jennifer."

Religious and political signage or advertisements will no longer be allowed on any Broward County Public School grounds after the board approved a policy change... The vote comes after issues at some schools including Cooper City High School, where a banner paid for by Pentecostals of Cooper City was removed from the school... The district is also facing a lawsuit by someone who requested to display a Satan-related message at a school but was refused

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida public school employee who faces firing because she allowed her transgender daughter to play girls high school volleyball assailed those who outed her child, saying Tuesday that the ensuing investigation destroyed the girl’s life. Jessica Norton said her daughter was thriving at Monarch High School in suburban Fort Lauderdale before an anonymous tipster notified a Broward County school board member in November that the 16-year-old was playing on the girls varsity volleyball team in apparent violation of state law. The 2021 Fairness in Women’s Sports Act bars students who were born male from...

An 11-year-old boy in Florida who was wielding a butcher knife and threatening to kill himself and his sister during a tantrum over a video game has been tasered by officers. Wesley Hinton began getting angry following the dispute and grabbed a blade before his 10-year-old sister phoned 911 during the incident on January 20. Deputies from the Broward Sheriff’s Office arrived on the scene and say Wesley ran the knife over parts of his body including his wrists, stomach and held it at his chest. Surveillance footage shows deputies pleading with him to drop the weapon for at least...

Authorities in Florida released bodycam footage Friday of what police say is a shootout between three deputies and a Broward County Transit employee. Sheriff Gregory Tony said at a news conference that the suspect, 59-year-old Rafael A. Molina, went into a locker room after work and changed into his regular clothes. Surveillance video then showed him holding a lunch box outside the locker room, Tony said. “He’s just basically waiting,” Tony said of the footage. “What we are referencing as ambushing. Prepping to execute, [kill] one of his colleagues.” ... Tony said that when one of Molina’s co-workers exited the...

Prosecutors in Broward County have dropped charges against a Ukrainian refugee family accused of an anti-gay hate crime in 2022. Five members of the Makarenko family had been implicated in the alleged homophobic beating in Pompano Beach. Authorities...

WESTON, Fla. – A 24-year-old woman was arrested Sunday after a series of bizarre acts at a Weston synagogue that ended in her shouting “politically-based rhetoric regarding the ongoing events in Israel and also the border issues,” her arrest report stated. According to the report, the incident occurred at Temple Dor Dorim, located at 2360 Glades Circle. Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies said the woman, Jessica Shiner, of Miami, tried to clog multiple toilets, set off a noise-making machine and covered herself in fake blood while shouting. A BSO sergeant at the synagogue witnessed her actions, the report stated. According to...

In 2021, the Florida legislature passed, and Governor Ron DeSantis signed, the Fairness in Women's Sports Act, which prohibits biological males from participating in women's sports in Florida schools or clubs, and assesses civil fines for any school in the state, at any level, that violate the prohibition. The law was celebrated by many seeking to protect women's and girls' spaces in athletics. Apparently, however, one high school in Florida decided to test that law. And they just found out it has exactly the teeth that the legislature and DeSantis promised it did. Florida athletic board bans transgender volleyball player...

Ten squatters have been removed after illegally taking over a $1million home in Florida, leaving it damaged and infested with bugs. The ringleader, Tyrone Jones, was also accused of creating a fake identity to become an executor of the property in Fort Lauderdale – and has allegedly carried out 14 similar crimes and fraudulently acquired properties worth more than $12 million. Broward County Sheriff’s Office removed seven men, two women and a child last Tuesday from the stolen home. The locks were changed to stop them returning. The $1million home on Seabreeze Boulevard had its walls, windows, and flooring completely...

VIDEOA very INTENSE lightning storm started rolling into Broward County, FL a little after 5 PM on July 6, 2023. I heard the roar of thunder in the distance at that time and checked LightningMaps.Org which revealed a chain of lightning strikes going off in the Everglades west of me. I immediately drove to a nearby location about 10 miles west of the Atlantic and just south of Tamarac and went up to the third floor balcony of a building. I set up my cell camera on a tripod and pointed it almost due west to catch the incoming lightning...

Huge invasive pest can eat its way through stucco and street signs, puncture tires, and even cause meningitis The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services announced on Tuesday that a swath of Broward County would be placed under quarantine The department will spray a pesticide it says is safe for crops but will make the invasive giant African land snails susceptible to dehydration

hey’re not escargot-ing anywhere. State officials placed part of a Florida city under quarantine Tuesday as they race to eradicate the invasive, parasite-carrying invasive giant African snail. The 3.5-mile section of Miramar in Broward County — located just 11 miles west of Hollywood — will be covered in a metaldehyde-based molluscicide to exterminate the insects after a giant African snail was found in the area earlier this month. Residents will be able to move out of the treatment area freely but are prevented from moving any plant-based supplies that could harbor the mammoth mollusk’s eggs. “Under the quarantine, it is...

BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. (WFLA) — A south Florida man was arrested after allegedly leading police on a multi-county chase in a stolen fire truck on Thursday. Miami Fire Rescue crews were conducting a training exercise in North Miami Beach at around 6:30 p.m. when one of their trucks drove off. Police identified the man inside as Lekambrick Hanna, 31, of Miami, NBC affiliate WPTV reports. The truck struck an Opa Locka police cruiser, according to NBC affiliate WTVJ. No one was inside the car at the time of the crash. A chase ensued as the fire truck continued north onto...

VIDEOA very DRAMATIC carjacking notable for two reasons. One because one of the vehicles carjacked was a Tesla and, more importantly, this carjacking and police chase which involved all three South Florida counties of Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach terminated right near where I live. This happened a few days ago and had I decided to go to nearby Big Daddy's for a liquor pickup or to eat in the adjoining Flanigan's, I could have been the one carjacked on the way home.A very DRAMATIC carjacking notable for two reasons. One because one of the vehicles carjacked was a Tesla...

A Florida man wearing an ankle monitor after posting bond for pending charges was arrested this week for burglary and grand theft, according to reports. Joshua Reed, 19, was ordered by the Broward County Court to wear a GPS ankle-worn monitor for a pending case in Palm Beach, after posting bond for charges of grand theft auto. ABC station WPLG in Miami, Florida reported that Reed was in a Miami-Dade County court on Thursday for additional charges. Surveillance video from Jan. 7 allegedly shows Reed with others outside of a home near Dante Fascell Park in South Miami. One of...

A verdict was reached on Monday in the in the battery trial of Fort Lauderdale police Officer Steven Pohorence... Prosecutors have a video showing Pohorence’s interaction with a woman who was kneeling during a Black Lives Matter protest in 2020 near the Broward County Main Library....

Gregory Tony and his subordinates partner with those who wish us harm. In 2014, then-Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel set a terrible precedent, when he hired Nezar Hamze, a representative from CAIR, a group with numerous links to terrorism, as a Deputy at the Broward Sheriff’s Office (BSO). Hamze ‘opened doors’ for Sheriff Israel, by introducing the Sheriff at radical mosques. Five years later, Israel was removed from his position and replaced with Gregory Tony. Yet, not only has Tony kept Hamze on the force, but he has gone much further in his embrace of Islamists, even having them participate...

Prosecutors of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz called for an investigation Friday after a juror said another panelist threatened her during the deliberations that ended with a life sentence for Cruz's murder of 17 people four years ago at Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Prosecutor Carolyn McCann told Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer during a brief hearing that prosecutors are not trying to invalidate Thursday's jury vote and reported the threat only for safety reasons and so the Broward County Sheriff's Office can investigate. In their written motion asking for the hearing, prosecutors said the juror told them another juror...