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The paint may have dried, but the work isn't done. Less than a month after the artist/eco-activist known as Wyland painted a 1,000-foot-wide seascape along McNab Road, city officials are ready to transform the ...

North Lauderdale Water Association is asking its customers to be on the lookout for standing water that could indicate a leak in its lines.

He marches past the palm trees, the headstones, the limousine and the hearse. Under his arm he carries a silver horn, light in weight but robust with history.

The paint may have dried, but the work isn't done. Less than a month after the artist/eco-activist known as Wyland painted a 1,000-foot-wide seascape along McNab Road, city officials are ready to transform the ...

THE PROPOSED BUDGET City Manager Richard Sala is asking for a modest raise in the tax rate to offset rising costs.

You might be as old as 42, stuck in your current job or business. You might have little college, some college, no college or a college degree.

A woman has been critically injured after her car hit a tree this morning. North Lauderdale Fire Chief Kevin Bowman says rescuers planned to fly the woman to a hospital.

If Asian is your ultimate comfort food, prepare to get very comfortable at Asian Fusion.

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.

The state just gave Broward County's public schools' their report cards, and school district officials said their hard work really paid off: More As and fewer Fs.

The power is out at a Memphis Public Housing high-rise. Hundreds of people who live there, many of whom are elderly or disabled, were in the dark overnight, with no air conditioning.

With pump prices hovering around four dollars a gallon, drivers were greeted by a Broward pastor on Friday who gave away gas vouchers if only to fill people's tanks a tad.

'If you want to kick a tiger in the ass, you'd better have a plan for dealing with his teeth.' - comment about this story on Topix.com 22-year old Donicio Arrindell of North Lauderdale was killed during the ...

A Broward County judge on Wednesday sent a woman to prison for 12 years for hiring her daughter's 16-year-old boyfriend to kill her husband of less than three years, said prosecutor Maria Schneider.

Only 6 percent of South Floridians named the war as a top issue in a Miami Herald poll released this week.

A broken pipe that since April turned a neighborhood street into a sodden mess has finally been fixed, but officials and residents are still locked in a decade-long fight over who's responsible for the bill. The city replaced the rusted galvanized pipe with PVC last week, but the road in the Highland Court community is riddled with potholes so wide residents say their car suspensions are shot. Permanent repairs to the road and pipes could cost up to $500,000. 'The city thinks [the problem] will all go away if the leak is fixed, but they haven't decided who's responsible,' said resident Andrea Kennedy, who has lived in Highland Court for six years.

Police are searching for three teens who were caught on surveillance video setting a fire at a North Lauderdale supermarket, authorities said.

Jun. 23--After retired police officer William Hames finally came clean about the gun-planting cover up that rocked Miami this decade -- and helped federal prosecutors convict seven fellow dirty officers -- he ...

A two-car collision in Tamarac Sunday killed a Boca Raton woman and left a father and son critically injured, police said.

An off-duty police officer riding his personal motorcycle was killed at 11:24 a.m. on Friday when his bike collided with an SUV at the intersection of Coconut Creek Parkway and Banks Road, said Coconut Creek Police spokesman Anthony Avello.

Michael McQuade, 36, was a 5-year veteran at the Margate Police Department.

The SUV's driver was identified as Loize Augusme, 48, of North Lauderdale. Augusme does not face charges at this time, authorities said.

According to Avello, the SUV was westbound on Coconut Creek Parkway making a left turn to head south on Banks Road when the SUV collided with the motorcycle, which was eastbound on Coconut Creek Parkway.