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The average robbery takes less than three minutes. For victims and bystanders, the experience can have lasting, traumatic impact.

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Police are looking for one of three suspected robbers seen taking a drive in a stolen car.

Although construction is finished, nobody knows when Broward County 's newest library will actually open.

Facing a $7.8 million budget cut, library officials hope to scrounge up as many as 25 employees from other branches to organize and catalog 60,000 books, CDs and references in the Miramar library, which was supposed to open last spring.

'We will be hard-pressed to get it open by September,' said Bob Cannon, Broward County Library Division director. 'Normally, we need three months to hire people, get the collection in, and open to the public. But in this situation, it is a little more tenuous because we don't have anyone to organize it.'

Police say they are looking for a shirtless teenager who shot a 15-year-old bystander in the leg during a fight this afternoon.

Police reports from around Miramar and Pembroke Pines.

Police are searching for two of three men suspected of robbing a 24-hour drug store at gunpoint Thursday morning.

A dramatic scene unfolded in a Miramar neighborhood after a SWAT team surrounded a home where they said they believed an ex-con was hiding out.

A West Park woman was arrested Thursday and accused of giving police false information that led to a five-hour SWAT standoff at a house where authorities thought an armed man was barricaded with hostages. The siege ended when they stormed the house, but they didn't find their man. He was never in there, police said. Arrested was Loriann Hemmings, 21, who they say made up the story about the wanted man. Hemmings is facing a charge of giving false information to law enforcement during a felony investigation, said Broward Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Alesia Russell. She was given a notice to appear in court. Hemmings told deputies that her on-again, off-again boyfriend Erik Kelly, 28, barged into her home in the 2700 block of Southwest 54th Avenue on Tuesday, held her captive, then stole her car, Russell said. Sheriff's detectives received a tip the next day that Kelly had barricaded himself in a Miramar home on the 7900 block of Biltmore Boulevard, authorities said. They did not say who gave them the tip or when. About 4 p.m. Wednesday, city police and a SWAT team arrived at the home. Officers circled the place and blocked off surrounding streets, believing Kelly was holding a woman and two minors hostage inside. 'We saw the police through our window, and then they came to our house and told us to leave. They had the entire neighborhood out on the street,' said Wilfred Samuels, 57, who lives across from the targeted house. Samuels and his wife, Gloria, 62, who uses a walker to move, were told to wait on Utopia Drive, which intersects their street. 'My wife is a sick woman, but they still had us standing outside all those hours,' Wilfred Samuels said. 'And then they just left, didn't even tell us that the whole thing was a sham.' Police called the surrounded residence about 9 p.m. and told the family inside to come out. They then rushed inside but did not find the suspect. Authorities said Hemmings called detectives during the standoff and said she had lied, but they wouldn't say when they received that call. When detectives reached Kelly on Thursday, he said he had returned Hemmings' car. He is not facing charges. 'It's against the law to make a false report of a crime, as it jeopardizes the safety of the public and of law enforcement,' Russell said. Hemmings could not be reached to comment Thursday. Florida criminal records show Hemmings was charged with robbery as a juvenile in 2002 and in 2004 with passing a false bill. The dispositions of those cases were not available Thursday. A woman who answered the door at the wrongly surrounded home declined to comment. Staff Researcher William Lucey contributed to this report.

Police arrested one man and were looking for two others suspected in the armed robbery of a Miramar drug store Thursday, authorities said.

Marvin Iniqua Silver, 18, was found hiding inside a Dumpster in Hialeah, three hours after the 4 a.m. armed robbery of the Miramar CVS in the 16000 block of Miramar Parkway, authorities said.

His suspected accomplices were still at large later Thursday.'We are satisfied that we caught one of them. Unfortunately, two were able to elude us, despite our efforts to catch them,' Hialeah police spokesman Detective Carl Zogby said. 'We do need to get those guys off those streets.'

The city's Social Services Department, together with Broward County , has expanded the Community Bus service.

A Miramar man was among three men arrested this week for selling and distributing contraband medication from Florida through shell corporations, authorities said today.

Investigators are scrutinizing a murder victim's online dating account in hopes of finding his killer, according to a search warrant made public Wednesday.

Michael Green, 52, was found slain inside his house in the 3100 block of Southwest 65th Avenue on June 21. Police said they went there after Green's mother had a friend go check on him. The friend and police found Green brutally murdered.

The killer was gone.

Detectives have since learned that Green was openly gay, and recently had met a friend through Adam4Adam, a dating Web site that bills itself as a 'community for gay men looking for friendship, romance, dating or a hot hookup.'

A five-hour standoff that involved the Broward Sheriff's Office, Miramar Police, a SWAT team and hostage negotiators ended Wednesday night when authorities entered the surrounded house and found no suspect.

Several streets around the 7900 block of Biltmore Boulevard were closed during the operation, which began shortly after 4 p.m.

The Broward Sheriff's Office had begun a search in West Park for a man wanted in connection with a crime, though authorities did not release a name or description of the man. They also did not say what crime he was accused of committing.

The pilot of a single-engine airplane built from a kit died Monday evening when the aircraft plummeted to the ground after takeoff, authorities said.

The plane landed on a fence separating North Perry Airport from nearby tennis courts, then burst into flames. The plane was so twisted and charred it was impossible to distinguish the tail from the nose.

'It's in pieces right now,' said Pembroke Pines police spokesman Sgt. Bryan Davis. 'We're still trying to sort out what happened.'

The pilot was the only person in the aircraft, authorities said.

Police say the 9 month old baby was killed when her mother fell asleep behind the wheel.

A 42-year-old man working in a garden center at a Wal-Mart Supercenter was bit on Sunday by a pygmy rattler, officials said.

The victim was taken to Memorial Hospital Miramar for treatment where he received anti-venin for the bite, said Miami Dade Fire Capt. Ernie Jillson, in charge of the agency's Venom Response Team.

A juvenile pygmy rattler bit the man on the right hand in the 100 block of Southwest 184 Avenue shortly before noon. The venom response team was contacted about the bite and responded, Jillson said. The venom response team, based in Miami, keeps 43 different types of anti-venin in stock, for treatment of everything from cobra and rattlesnake bites to coral snake bites.

A 9-month-old girl in a non-secured baby carrier was killed on Sunday when the car she was riding in collided with a cement pole at 4 a.m. at 12700 block of Miramar Parkway, said police spokesman Bill Robertson.

A woman was fighting for her life Sunday night after the car she was in plunged into a canal near Miramar.