The 65-year-old Miramar man accused of shooting a federal customs agent in a post-office parking lot told police he killed him moments after an angry exchange the pair had while driving along a tree-lined roadway in Pembroke Pines.
IMMIGRATION
In an extremely rare move, a Jamaican lesbian living in Sunrise has avoided deportation -- for now -- after an immigration judge allowed the 29-year-old to stay in the United States because her sexual orientation could cause her to be tortured in her home country.
HURRICANE SEASON
Government scientists said Thursday they ''expect considerable activity'' for the rest of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season, in part because the early part of the season brought two hurricanes and three tropical storms.
COOPER CITY
A jury ruled on Thursday that Cooper City must pay more than $300,000 to a local Chabad. The ruling comes after a federal judge found that city rules restricting where houses of worship could be located were in violation of federal law.
DRIFTER
For weeks, Ronald ''Ronnie'' Novack's whereabouts were a mystery. Pompano Beach shelter or Pembroke Pines apartment, nobody knew for sure.
BROWARD COUNTY
A Miramar man was arrested Wednesday after an intense, 30-hour manhunt, charged with first-degree murder in the death of a federal agent.
CENSUS | BROWARD COUNTY
The loss of white non-Hispanics is causing Broward's population to shrink. In a report being released Thursday, the Census Bureau showed Broward's population fell by about 13,100 -- 0.75 percent -- between 2006 and 2007, the largest loss statewide and Broward's first drop in population since 2000. Miami-Dade's population jumped slightly -- about 0.45 percent.
PEMBROKE PARK
Exactly one year ago Wednesday, a bullet almost a half-inch wide ripped into Broward Sheriff's Deputy Maury Hernandez's brain. His chances of surviving were slim, and the odds of him waking -- much less walking or talking -- were even lower.
EDUCATION
Broward Schools Superintendent Jim Notter earned such high marks on his first evaluation Wednesday that his contract will be extended a year -- through 2011.
LAUDERDALE LAKES
A 16-year-old boy with an extensive criminal history was charged with murder Tuesday following the drowning of his teenage crime partner, authorities said.
BROWARD SHERIFF'S OFFICE
Morality, mentorship and manners were on the minds of three of the six candidates for Broward sheriff at a forum Wednesday night at Fort Lauderdale First Baptist Church.
Police pulled over Jennifer Collins of Cooper City twice Wednesday -- once as she got to her job at Memorial Hospital Miramar and again when she left.
PEMBROKE PINES
Donald J. Pettit was a retired soldier who survived a long military career, including a terrorist bombing in Bangkok. Tuesday morning, he lost his life in a traffic dispute.
FLORIDA'S ECONOMY
The bursting of the Florida real-estate bubble now has a price tag: $153 billion. That's the loss in market value of all Florida properties, from houses to businesses, between 2007 and 2008.
CAMPAIGN 2008 | SHERIFF
Scott Israel, the Democratic front-runner in the Broward sheriff's race, accepted $1,000 in campaign donations from a convicted felon and plans to return the money.
A man was taken to a hospital with a gunshot wound after a shooting in Pompano Beach on Tuesday night, according to the Broward Sheriff's Office.
Beleaguered Coconut Creek High, which was graded F and lost its principal in the same week last month, has a new leader. David Jones, principal of Coral Glades High in Coral Springs, will lead Coconut Creek. Broward School Board members approved the appointment Tuesday.
EDUCATION
Broward County parents: Don't put shopping for a school on your back-to-school list. For the first time ever in the district, it could lead to an arrest.
Investigators pulled a body from a Lauderdale Lakes canal on Tuesday evening, according to the Broward Sheriff's Office. BSO divers found the body in the 3600 block of Northwest 41st Street, BSO said. The body was that of a male, possibly a teenager, BSO said.
POMPANO BEACH
The fire -- an electrical blaze limited to the laundry room -- lasted just minutes. But the impact to a Pompano Beach group home and the disabled kids who live there could stretch on for weeks.
BROWARD SCHOOLS
To put it simply, a new Broward County School Board policy could read ``False address can lead to arrest.'' On Tuesday, board members will vote on a policy that makes it clear that they will report parents who use addresses other than their homes to register their students for school.
POMPANO BEACH
A circuit court judge has ruled that Pompano Beach did not breach a contract with a developer over plans for a mega-complex that would have included a new home for the International Swimming Hall of Fame.
FORT LAUDERDALE
Sandra Wright was terrified when she realized her 14-year-old daughter and the girl's young cousin were missing from her Fort Lauderdale home.
The Benitez brothers were masters of Medicare fraud, prosecutors say. They spent their Medicare millions on Mediterranean-style homes, apartments, hotels, boats, a helicopter, even a water park -- all in the resort area of Bavaro, Dominican Republic, court records show.
BROWARD COURTS
For more than a year, Gary Troutman has sat in a Broward County jail, accused of raping and murdering 24-year-old Angela Savage more than 20 years ago in Deerfield Beach -- a crime to which he has pleaded not guilty.
PLANTATION
When Eleanor Adderley fired four shots at her police chief husband in their Plantation home, he didn't call 911 -- even though he had been in Fort Lauderdale law enforcement for almost three decades.
VETA MAE PETERMAN, 90
Veta Mae Peterman, a longtime Dania Beach community activist who started a preschool and kindergarten for black children during the Jim Crow era, died Tuesday at her home. She was 90.
DAVID PATTERSON, 72
When Fort Lauderdale Police Chief Frank Adderley was a rookie more than two decades ago, he got sick at his first sight of a real dead body.
DEBORAH NYCZ, 62
Deborah Nycz was a fighter during her 32 years at Broward College, battling cancer even as she pushed students to achieve in the sciences and worked to expand faculty rights.
