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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.
Grieving Miramar family warns about threat of urban coyotes without fear of humans
MIRAMAR, Fla. – Puffy, a poodle-Maltese mix, was part of the Melendez family in Miramar, so there was overwhelming grief when coyotes killed him. Richard Melendez thought his 12-year-old son Adrian and Puffy were safe to walk together in the morning inside their gated community. In a flash, that sense of security was gone.
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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. ...
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...
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...
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...
High school debate team forges on to nationals after coach's shocking arrest
Imagine being on the high school debate team, you’ve worked hard to qualify for the national championship event, but you can’t go because your debate coach has been arrested. What an awful feeling, and the members of the Western High School speech and debate team are feeling it...
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