Sunrise News

Forget the sigh of relief when you see that the officer behind you is outside his jurisdiction. If you drive in Broward County , those jurisdictional lines soon will disappear. Under a new policing-without-boundaries plan set to launch in two weeks, city officers can make traffic stops in any other city in Broward.

Sheriff Al Lamberti has quietly signed agreements with several cities in Broward that have their own police departments and hopes to get all the Broward cities signed on. Under the sheriff's plan, city officers in Broward would be like county deputies, able to enforce traffic laws countywide, even when they're off duty and driving to the grocery store.

Broward Caribbean Carnival will be back in October, and organizers promise that this year's fete will run flawlessly.

Almost a half of a million dollars' worth of pot landed six people in jail; as Lee County Sheriff's deputies busted four grow houses in Lehigh Acres.

Seven young men suspected of robbing people at a Coral Springs doughnut shop were arrested in Fort Lauderdale on Wednesday, and police say the youths may be responsible for other robberies in Broward County .

Among the men is the son of two law enforcement officers who was arrested four months ago on robbery and weapons charges. Those charges were later dropped.

On Wednesday, Fort Lauderdale police pulled over a blue 2006 Ford Expedition about 2:30 a.m. because it matched the description of an SUV driven during a robbery at a Coral Springs Dunkin' Donuts an hour earlier, authorities said.

Give the Easter bunny a break. Of course he's a tad tubby. Surrounded by mountains of holiday chocolate, who could resist?

Deep, dark, deeee-licious. And here's good news: Dark chocolate, or pure cocoa, appears to be heart healthy as long as you don't chow down mega calories.

Lucky us. South Florida is awash in so many scrumptious chocolate treats we can't begin to mention them all. But to get you started, here's a sampling to help fill your Easter basket.

Equally important, we found kosher chocolate goodies for Passover, too. And along the way, we discovered creative ways to indulge in a chocolate fest.

Fernando Pacheco, of Sunrise, contacted the South Florida Sun-Sentinel concerned about a safety hazard caused by nonworking streetlights on University Drive between Oakland Park Boulevard and Northwest 44th ...

So you want to eat at Uncle Lui's? Better make a reservation. If you think I'm kidding, just try getting in without one any Friday, Saturday or Sunday night.

ISSUE: Woman is killed at Plantation police station parking lot. Something inexplicable and tragic happened the day Olidia Kerr Day was gunned down in the parking lot of a Plantation police station.

CORAL GABLES, Fla. - Great Florida Bank , today announced that with the opening of its twenty-eighth Solution Center in Boca Raton they have completed an aggressive expansion begun six weeks ago.

The budget numbers for next fiscal year are bleak, city leaders are learning. With falling revenues and increasing expenditures, Sunrise is facing a $9 million shortfall in its general fund budget for next ...

A teenage girl from Sunrise died early Sunday after the driver of a car she was riding in fell asleep at the wheel and crashed the vehicle, police said.

A legal challenge to block Sunrise from withdrawing more groundwater from the Biscayne and Floridan aquifers has been dismissed.

At Sunrise gas stations tempers flared, gas was stolen from a pump and a purse was lifted from an unlocked car.

Olivia Napoleon enjoyed a major cultural experience recently: the 4-year-old had her first taste of sushi.

Parents of students in Sunrise elementary schools will have to wait another year for another middle school to be built in the city.

The Broward School Board delayed funding for construction of a middle school, dubbed NN, on the site of the former Cypress Bay Annex, at 270 N. New River Circle, where ninth-graders were once taught in portable classrooms.

The $27 million earmarked for the project now will be used to offset a portion of a $143 million shortfall in the 2008-09 budget. Funding for the new school is expected to be in the 2009-10 budget, School Board member Phyllis Hope said.

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.

Despite a two-minute conversation in which a 911 caller told an operator she was racing to the police station with a gunman in pursuit, police weren't dispatched to help her until she lay dying in the station ...

The man accused in the hit and run death of a 4-year-old Sunrise girl in April was granted bond and set free on Tuesday in a Broward courtroom, where the mother of the dead child collapsed on hearing the news.

Kathryn Dykes was walking her dog Sasha in her Mirror Lakes neighborhood earlier this month when three pit bulls ran from a neighbor's backyard and attacked her and the blind, 12-year-old Shar-Pei.

Sasha's injuries were so severe that the dog was later euthanized. Dykes said she was bitten 51 times on her left hand and arm and several times on her right hand.

On June 11, one week after the vicious attack, Dykes, with her left forearm wrapped in bandages, spoke to the Plantation City Council.

Comcast, the nation's largest cable television provider, has signed a $15 million, 10-year lease for a 63,850-square-foot office complex in Sunrise at Sawgrass International Concourse.