Oakland Park News

Oozi, a Belgian Malinois, helped his partner capture 35 people this year. Number 36 turned out to be fatal.

Thursday, July 17, 2008 The shooter, Delvin Lewis, 27, was firing shots at his girlfriend during a domestic dispute in Oakland Park.

A Broward County Sheriff's Office K-9 was shot and killed during an exchange of gunfire with a man in Miami Beach on Thursday morning.

If you didn't check your inhibitions at the door, maybe a bucket of this chain outlet's 85-ounce signature drink will help (multiple straws provided for sharing.) At the very least you'll be expected to clap along, and if you really want, the long bar on a raised level at the back allows you blend in with others on the barstools.

On the stage, grand pianos facing each other accommodate the singers and the brave souls lured onto the stage to belt out tunes, from Broadway shows to Top 40 hits.

Catfish Dewey's has been drawing crowds since 1984 when Dewey Culbreth Sr. took over a country music lounge and turned it into South Florida's one and only catfish mecca.

At age 63, Ta-Boo looks marvelous. Sure, like many of its age on the island of Palm Beach, it has had a little work done over the years. More important, its spirit remains as youthful as ever.

Midevening, the bar running the length of the narrow, hearth-tiled lounge is jammed. Sometime between 9:30 and 10:30 on weekends, tables are cleared from a section that becomes a dance floor.

Well-dressed couples, most in their 30s and 40s, dance on the wooden floor to '60s and '70s dance hits: Mony Mony (Tommy James), I'm a Believer (Monkees), Baby Come Back (Player), Stayin' Alive (Bee Gees), Low Rider (War), Aquarius (Fifth Dimension) or I Think I Love You (Partridge Family).

Five people were injured, at least two critically, on Friday when a motorcycle collided with a car on West Oakland Park Boulevard, said Oakland Park Fire Chief Donald Widing.

With energy prices soaring and power companies raising rates, homeowners may want to know the score.

A Haitian man accused in a crime of passion nearly two decades ago that left two people dead is expected to turn himself in to Ft.

Lady Liberty's welcome was sorely missing from the drab immigration office where Argentine architect Rodolfo Acevedo started his U.S. citizenship application in the early 1990s.

A man was shot dead in a case of road rage Thursday morning, police said. Police were called to the 3400 block of North Dixie Highway at 11:20 a.m., where they found the driver of a gold Chrysler on the ground ...

The family of a man killed in a road rage incident Oakland Park spoke out on Friday.

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.

Authorities say road rage led to a fatal shooting on a South Florida roadway. The Broward Sheriff's Office says the shooting followed an argument over a "very minor crash" Thursday in Oakland Park.

A security guard keeps watch in front of the immigration center in Miami, Friday, June 13, 2008, as a long line forms to enter the building.

July 4th is the height of hot dog season. From Memorial Day to Labor Day, Americans will eat 7 billion hot dogs, according to the National Hot Dog and Sausage Council.

A curious patient who did an Internet search discovered that the man treating her for arthritis in Oakland Park didn't have a license and was a sex offender, authorities said.

The woman scheduled an appointment to be treated at the Center for Rheumatology, Immunology and Arthritis by Dr. Reginald Phillips, 50. Before the treatment, however, she decided to search for his credentials on Google, said Keyla Concepcion, spokeswoman for the Broward Sheriff's Office. She found that he was sentenced in 1997 to more than seven years in prison for sexual battery and had his license revoked, Concepcion said.

Police said an unlicensed doctor who is a registered sex offender was practicing medicine in an Oakland Park medical center.

CNN/crime nailed one Google search crime story but missed the other. CNN caught the man who murdered his wife and daughter but missed the sex offender practicing medicine in Florida.

The Broward Sheriff's Office says Reginald Phillips had his medical license revoked after he was convicted of sexually molesting patients.