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3 Florida cities named among top 100 best places to live in US: report
ORLANDO, Fla. - Multiple Florida cities have been named among the best places to live in the United States in a new ranking. The website Liveability recently released its list of the Top 100 Best Places to Live in the U.S. in 2024, listing three Florida cities among the best.
Two men arrested after high-speed chase through busy area of Palm Beach
Two Broward County men are facing charges after leading police on a high-speed chase through a busy area of town, damaging several cars before running from officers, according to a police report. Palm Beach police said a 21-year-old from Sunrise and a 22-year-old from Fort Lauderdale, who were arrested following...
Fort Lauderdale native Logan Sargeant is home for Miami Grand Prix, living the Formula 1 dream while staving off the nightmare
Logan Sargeant, the dashing 23-year-old Fort Lauderdale native who is the only American driver on the popular Formula 1 circuit, can always draw a crowd, especially when he’s promoting Sunday’s Miami Grand Prix. Amaya Mateo and Megumi Schiroma, a pair of 18-year-old seniors from Hollywood, left Pembroke Pines...
Local animal rescue gives new life to emaciated dog found with gunshot wound
MIAMI - She's a happy, playful dog named Karma. Jessie Paige is her foster mom. "She's got energy, she wants to play. She loves men and toys. Her favorite thing in the world is tall men and rope toys," Paige laughed.This is Karma today, a couple of months ago she looked very different. She was left tied up outside Lauderhill Fire Station 30. She was filled with parasites, had a life-threatening uterine infection and she was starving. "She was overbred, she had parametria and she was emaciated, skin and bones," said Cindy Mucciaccio with IHeart Animal Rescue. She jumped into action to...
Sticker shock in Fort Lauderdale: Tunnel Top Plaza cost taxpayers close to $13 million
FORT LAUDERDALE — The artificial turf zone along Las Olas known as Tunnel Top Plaza cost taxpayers nearly $12.7 million — an extra $2 million more than expected. City officials hoped the pricey addition would transform the area that sits atop the U.S. 1 tunnel into a trendy gathering spot. But some residents, including the mayor, are less than impressed with the current bunker-like look. ...
Teen among those on trash-dumpers’ boat speaks: ‘I’m sorry for whatever happened’
BOCA RATON, Fla. – One of the teenagers on the boat at the center of a viral video showing trash being illegally dumped into the waters off South Florida said he’s disturbed by what happened. The 15-year-old asked not to be identified, but said he wasn’t one of...
Fort Lauderdale mayor wants to use old BSO jail as homeless shelter, county opposed
MIAMI - We found a man, with all his belongings, living on the sidewalk next to Fort Lauderdale's downtown bus station. "How long have you lived on the street," CBS News Miami's Ted Scouten asked. "Too long," he said. He doesn't want to give his name, but he tells us he's concerned about Florida's new law that bans sleeping in public places. "It's messed up, that's what I can tell you. Everywhere you go, the rent is too high. So, how you going to live?" he asked.On the flip side, Charles King is a Fort Lauderdale real estate agent. "I don't think...
Amid rise in murders, South Florida city starts campaign to find causes, solutions
As multiple cities in Broward County struggle with a recent rise in gun violence, Lauderhill is starting a months-long initiative that aims to find through research the “root cause” of violence in the city and implement solutions. One of the faces of the city’s “Peace365” initiative is someone who has lived the gun violence that police, the government and residents want to curb. Mancito ...
Man accused of using tow truck to steal liquor store owner’s car identified
DANIA BEACH, FLA. (WSVN) - The man, who police say, stole a liquor store owner’s car with a tow truck has been identified. Tanarvis Ray was arrested on Tuesday and charged with grand theft. According to police, he took a vintage vehicle from a Dania Beach business. The crime...
3 Broward schools would close, others would change under proposal
Three Broward schools would close and a number of others in the southern half of the county would face major changes, under a proposal Superintendent Howard Hepburn is recommending to deal with declining enrollment. Broward Estates Elementary in Lauderhill, Olsen Middle in Dania Beach and Oakridge Elementary in Hollywood would close under the proposed plan presented Monday night at a town hall ...
New videos show wild school fight that led to 5 people shot in Miami Gardens
New videos show the wild fight outside a Miami Gardens high school that police said led to five people including two teens being shot Monday afternoon. Miami Gardens Police officials said the incident began with an altercation involving students at Miami Norland Senior High School. Videos circulating on social media...
Biologists believe a TikTok-famous monkey was taken from a South Florida colony. His owner says he was rescued from a lab
A vervet monkey who some scientists are claiming was taken from South Florida’s Dania Beach colony is now starring in TikTok videos that show him on the loose in Walmart, eating Pringles and chicken wings, and breaking televisions in hotel rooms. The videos have been viewed over a hundred million times. The scientists are not happy about it. The TikTok account is called Thabo and Ray, named for the approximately 5-year-old monkey and his owner, 31-year-old Kim Raymond Feaste. Feaste says in his videos that he rescued the baby monkey from a lab in Las Vegas where his mother was killed, but some primate experts are skeptical. “Labs do not give away monkeys,” Dr. Deborah “Missy” Williams, an adjunct professor at Florida Atlantic University who has overseen the Dania Beach monkey colony since 2014, told the South Florida Sun Sentinel. “They euthanize them.”
Miccosukee Tribe member faces federal charges after shooting on reservation
MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – A Miccosukee Tribe member appeared in federal court in Fort Lauderdale Monday after he was arrested in connection with a shooting, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Tuesday in a news release. According to court documents, Sutanga Rex Cypress, 42, is charged with assault with...
‘They almost made me cry’: NSU president presides over his final commencement ceremonies
Wednesday began the end of an era at Nova Southeastern University. George L. Hanbury II, the president and CEO of NSU, is presiding over this final graduation spring season, which began Wednesday morning. It drew a surprise reaction. When he announced it was his last commencement, the crowd let out a collective “aww.” “They almost made me cry,” he acknowledged hours after the ceremony, where ...
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