Three people were shot in a Fort Lauderdale neighborhood Sunday evening. According to radio transmissions, the shooting occurred around 5:15 p.m. near a residence at the 1400 block of Northwest 22nd Street in the Lauderdale Manors neighborhood. A dispatch from Ft. Lauderdale Fire Rescue said two patients were at the scene. One of the two, […]
Three years after upgrades began, the Henry E. Kinney Tunnel in Fort Lauderdale will reopen all four lanes of traffic on Friday, Florida Department of Transportation officials confirmed. “Our crews are working diligently to complete the project,” FDOT spokesperson Grace Ducanis told the Miami Herald in an email. “As tunnel construction is nearing completion, much […]
Months after a Fort Lauderdale woman went missing in Spain, a grand jury indicted her husband on kidnapping charges, prosecutors announced Friday. Meanwhile, his defense attorney has filed a motion arguing for his release from a Miami prison. The motion and a recent cross examination bring new details to light about what might — or […]
FORT LAUDERDALE — Say your neighbor has a yacht so big that it dwarfs the dock behind his home. Do you call the city to complain? Michael Meldeau did. It wound up getting him sued by one Steven Howell, owner of the yacht. The two men live on Delmar Place in Fort Lauderdale’s upscale Las […]
Saturday once again delivered a heat advisory, a May malady we’ve come to expect with South Florida weather these days. Forecasters at the National Weather Service in Miami, looking ahead into the weekend, are also tossing about the “T” word — as in a “tornado can’t be ruled out.” Especially Sunday. Let’s look at this: […]
Two jets briefly clipped wings while performing an aerial stunt during the Fort Lauderdale Airshow, on May 12, spectator video shows. Footage captured by @frograilfanning shows two planes, in a four-jet formation, briefly touch wings before the pilots quickly split away to avoid catastrophe. Speaking to Storyful, @frograilfanning said the incident occurred when the Polaris […]
A man believed to have masterminded an elaborate intercontinental kidnapping and murder of his wife in Spain was denied bond in Miami federal court Friday by a judge who said his wealth and connections abroad made him a flight risk. Federal magistrate Edwin G. Torres called it a difficult decision in a case that was […]
FORT LAUDERDALE — A mammoth apartment complex with enough units for nearly 1,000 families would bring new life to a forlorn property that served as one of Fort Lauderdale’s largest mobile home parks for nearly six decades. The Pan American Estates trailer park, once home to more than 200 families, would be transformed by a […]
LAUDERDALE COUNTY, Ala. (WHNT) — The Lauderdale County Sheriff’s Office (LCSO) says six people were arrested Wednesday after police found $2,000 worth of drugs at a Greenhill home. The sheriff’s office said agents with the Lauderdale County Drug Task Force executed a search warrant at a house in the 900 block of County Road 624 […]
A woman who was diagnosed with brain damage after a portion of a crane fell onto a bridge in downtown Fort Lauderdale is seeking more than $50 million in damages. Attorneys for Gemmalyn Castillo filed a lawsuit in Broward circuit court Thursday against five companies linked to the April 4 partial crane collapse on the […]
Fort Lauderdale Mayor Dean Trantalis responded Saturday to the dramatic crane incident that killed a worker, injured three others and damaged a bridge in the city’s downtown two days before, describing it as “unusual” but adding that the city could potentially do more to oversee construction projects. Related Articles A large, blue piece of steel […]
MIAMI – A worker fell to his death and three others were injured Thursday afternoon after part of a crane fell on a Fort Lauderdale bridge. It happened at around 4:30 p.m. on the SE 3rd Avenue bridge in downtown, near Las Olas Boulevard. Images from Chopper 4 showed part of the metal structure which […]