Lauderdale Lakes News

COUNTY JAIL DOCKET : Mandy Lynn Fior , 31, Ormond Beach, public assistance fraud; Betty Grace Sharpe , 45, Daytona Beach, aggravated battery; Cheryl Lee Tyler , 51, DeLand, criminal use of a persons ...

Two Florida officials say they are trying to talk Starbucks out of closing under-performing stores in their towns.

Sun-Sentinel , July 22, 2008 Tuesday Broward Metro Edition Let's face it. With all the world's problems and all the economy's woes, the closing of a dozen Starbucks stores across South Florida doesn't amount to ...

A 4-year-old boy was found wandering the streets alone in Lauderdale Lakes Wednesday morning.

Jordy Foster confessed that when his fussy 2-month-old son would not stop crying, he repeatedly slammed the infant's head against a kitchen table and floor, prosecutor Peter Holden said.

Oozi, a K-9 dog from the Broward Sheriff's Office, was shot to death during a confrontation between deputies and a Lauderdale Lakes man they had chased from Oakland Park to outside a Miami Beach hospital ...

Seven young men suspected of robbing people at a Coral Springs donut store were arrested in Fort Lauderdale this morning, and police say they're investigating whether the youths could be responsible for other ...

Coral Glades High School was largely empty Tuesday, with students and teachers off until August, but that didn't stop the gathered few summer staff from celebrating the school's first A in the state's student progress report. 'It's me, my office manager, the data processor and the custodians,' said Coral Glades Principal David Jones, whose school received a C last year. 'But I can make a lot of noise.' Jones' victory dance was one repeated in several Broward County schools on Tuesday. The Coral Springs high school is one of 14 Broward public schools to jump two letter grades for the 2007-08 school year, according to school grades released Tuesday by the Florida Department of Education.

A month after this city's mayor complained about travel expenses, city commissioners on Tuesday will explore new restrictions on how much they and city staff spend while out of town on city business.

A Broward County sheriff's aide was recently honored for helping raise nearly $3,000 to benefit Special Olympics Broward County .

The Broward School District has given a Lauderdale Lakes charter high school with failing state marks two weeks to close voluntarily. If it doesn't, the district will shut it down, officials said.

Smart School Institute of Technology and Commerce failed its yearlong mission to improve when it received another F - the third F in four years - on its annual report card from the state Tuesday.

District officials said Wednesday that it has until July 22 to close. If school officials don't comply, 'the district will initiate the termination process,' said Luwando Wright-Hines, Broward's director of charter schools.

A man was treated for smoke inhalation and his first-floor apartment was gutted today when a lighted cigarette sparked a fire that ignited his couch, said Fire Lt.

Ian Singer's days as a Tamarac assistant city planner were numbered. His supervisors had told him the words he feared: We're letting you go. He has become one of Broward County 's first municipal workers to be laid off because of cities' budget cuts.

Although some cities say they don't know whether layoffs will occur next fiscal year, Lauderdale Lakes, Tamarac and Parkland already have laid off a total of 20 employees during the past year.

Those displaced have been surviving in different ways: They have found new jobs immediately or gotten part-time jobs that don't compare to those they lost. Others remain jobless and collect unemployment checks. 'I'm hopeful that something comes to fruition here in the near future,' said Singer, 27. 'Otherwise, I'll have to leave the region.' Officials in Lauderdale Lakes, Tamarac and Parkland said staffs during the past two years have pored over ways to impose state-mandated cutbacks without resorting to layoffs. Among their changes were cutting departments' spending and freezing or eliminating unfilled positions. Ultimately, they imposed layoffs to help trim their budgets by hundreds of thousands of dollars.

ISSUE: Baby rescued from garbage. One can only imagine the agonizing thoughts that torment a mother as she ponders whether to give up a newborn baby.

An argument between two men angry over a minor car accident ended Thursday morning when one of the men fatally shot the other, authorities said.

David Figueroa, 28, of Lauderdale Lakes, died en route to Broward General Medical Center, the Broward Sheriff's Office said.

The man accused of shooting him, Thomas Thompson, 50, of Fort Lauderdale, was questioned by investigators but not arrested. The State Attorney's Office is reviewing the incident.

Authorities believe Thompson shot Figueroa after he pummeled Thompson and chased him to his van.

Baby Destiny, the newborn whose mother last month allegedly placed her in a trash bag for disposal, looked fine Thursday, cooing and then sleeping in the arms of her temporary caretaker.

A 30-year-old Jamaican woman faces an attempted murder charge in South Florida after allegedly placing her newborn daughter in a garbage bag.

A woman is accused of trying to kill her newborn baby by putting it into a plastic bag full of trash, the Broward Sheriff's Office said.

This summer, Kevin Sawyer became a principal again. And a Coral Springs building is once more a school.

When school ended last month, so did The Day School of Coral Springs, a private kindergarten through eighth-grade school. It will reopen this fall as Imagine Charter School at Broward, a public elementary school.

Imagine Schools, owner of the Day School, told parents in January that it could not afford to keep the campus open, leaving moms and dads scrambling to find a new place to enroll their children.

ISSUE: Allegations of neglect at Boyd Anderson. The activists and parents and students who have been complaining that Boyd Anderson High School is being neglected deserve something real quick.