BROWARD COUNTY

A Broward Sheriff’s Office Fire Rescue helicopter crashed into an apartment building in Pompano Beach Monday morning, killing two people and injuring four others, authorities confirmed.

Twenty people were injured when a Nissan Altima crashed into a restaurant at a shopping center.

A Broward jury has awarded $800,000 in damages in a lawsuit that alleged hot chicken McNuggets from a local McDonald’s franchise left a young girl severely burned.

Opening statements began in a second trial to determine the damages that will be awarded to the family suing McDonald’s and its franchisee after a 4-year-old was severely burned by a chicken nugget.

A search warrant of 62-year-old James Silverstone’s home yielded hundreds of videos and photos of child pornography, some involving children as young as infants, detectives said.

A quarantine zone was issued for a large chunk of land in South Florida after wildlife officials discovered an invasive giant African land snail that poses a health risk for plants and people.

The footage shows that around 6:41 p.m., the crowds began to scramble away near Margaritaville along the Broadwalk.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks at a church.

A student has been arrested in South Florida after a series of school shooting threats were made online against various schools around the state, according to Coral Springs police.

The ringleader of a Medicaid fraud ring in Florida and his accomplice were arrested Wednesday, according to Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody.

Authorities are investigating swatting incidents that occurred Tuesday morning at both Florida International University’s main campus in west Miami-Dade and City College in Hollywood, according to News 6 partner WPLG-TV.

President Joe Biden has declared part of South Florida a disaster area after record flooding struck the area earlier this month.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is asking the Biden administration to declare Broward County a disaster area due to flooding earlier this month after record rainfall.

After South Florida was hit by heavy flooding last week, state officials announced they are deploying over 500,000 gallons of fuel to the area to help those impacted.

Business owners and residents have begun the slow process of drying out and recovering possessions following an unprecedented deluge that dumped more than 2 feet of rain in some areas of South Florida in one day.

South Florida has begun draining streets and otherwise cleaning up after an unprecedented storm that dumped upward of 2 feet of rain in a matter of hours.

Nearly a foot of rain fell in a matter of hours in Fort Lauderdale – causing widespread flooding, the closure of the city’s airport and the suspension of high-speed commuter rail service for the Broward County region.

Three men accused of killing rapper XXXTentacion were found guilty of first-degree murder and armed robbery.

If you're an angler who's always wanted to catch a great white shark, a North Dakota family recently took a fishing trip in South Florida that might make you red in the gills.

After more than 34 years in prison, deputies at Broward County’s main jail freed a 57-year-old man on Monday after prosecutors determined that he had been wrongly convicted.

A teenage boy is facing a felony charge in Broward County after recently causing a scare with a graphic of a cat holding a rifle.

OCPS Superintendent Maria Vazquez said that information regarding disciplinary referrals will be released to the state before March 17.

A police motorman has died after being involved in a crash Thursday in Pembroke Pines.

The mother of a 1-year-old boy who is behind bars after her son died from drug poisoning is also facing major repercussions at her job.

The migration has families in anguish in both Cuba and South Florida.

A man accused of stealing multiple packages from Hollywood residents was arrested on Christmas Eve, police say.

Only in South Florida.

A Broward County teacher was fired after a video of her interrupting Muslim students while in prayer went viral, according to News 6 partner WPLG-TV.

These unsettling sights were caught on camera in Lauderhill.

Two people were taken into custody in South Florida after authorities spotted a vehicle possibly connected to a homicide in Orlando, according to sheriff’s officials.

University of Central Florida students impacted by the Parkland school shooting reacted to the jury verdict on Thursday.

Some families of the 17 people killed in the Parkland school shooting expressed their anger, sadness and shock by the jury’s recommendation Thursday that confessed shooter Nikolas Cruz be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole instead of death, according to News 6 partner WPLG-TV.

Florida leaders expressed a mixture of emotions Thursday after a jury rejected the death penalty and recommended instead a life sentence without parole for Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz for killing 17 people in 2018.

As Hurricane Ian continues to make its way toward Central Florida, the storm’s impact is being felt all across the state.

Pictures shared on social media show several planes overturned at North Perry Airport in Broward County Tuesday near where a possible tornado touched down.

Peter Antonacci, an attorney and lifelong Florida public servant who recently was head of the new statewide election crimes unit, has passed away.

A Florida man is facing charges that he left dead animals three times at a memorial for the 17 victims of the Parkland high school massacre.

A man punched and robbed a woman walking into a South Florida grocery store with her three young children, according to sheriff’s officials.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has suspended four Broward school board members after a grand jury report accused them of “deceit, malfeasance, misfeasance, neglect of duty and incompetence” and recommended their removal from office, according to News 6 partner WPLG-TV.

Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Thursday at least 20 people across Florida were charged with voter fraud after an investigation conducted by the newly created Office of Election Crimes and Security.

Gov. Ron DeSantis awarded $6.5 million to three state colleges in Polk, Duval and Broward counties to help fund workforce programs at a news conference in Jacksonville Monday afternoon.

Authorities have arrested rapper Kodak Black in South Florida on charges of trafficking in oxycodone and possession of a controlled substance.

A Broward County man lost one of his hands in an overnight fireworks accident Saturday, a sheriff’s office spokesperson said.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday held a news conference at Broward Health Sports Medicine in Fort Lauderdale.

Dashcam video shows a van being hauled by a truck smashing into an overpass in Broward County.

Detectives in Florida have arrested a man on a murder charge after his wife disappeared.

Deputies announced charges against a man, known as the “Pillowcase Rapist,” for cold cases from the 1980s.

The remains of a Florida teenager who went missing nearly 50 years ago have been identified through advanced DNA technology.

A presumptive case of monkeypox is being investigated in South Florida.

The mayor of a South Florida city presented a special proclamation to the parents of Miya Marcano, who was murdered by a maintenance worker at her Orlando apartment complex.

Haskins was attempting to cross Interstate 595′s westbound lanes when he died April 9, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.

A prospective juror in the sentencing phase of the Parkland shooting trial used an interesting excuse when asking to be dismissed.

A hammerhead shark about 11-feet long washed ashore in South Florida.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission announced Friday that Florida has passed the mark of 1 million registered recreational vessels.

An alert has been issued for a missing 11-year-old Florida boy.

Authorities are asking for the public’s help in finding a 15-year-old girl reported missing from Lauderhill in Broward County.

Officials say a teenage boy died and six other children were injured when a tractor-trailer crashed into a car on U.S. 27 in South Florida.

A teacher was hospitalized after a 5-year-old Pines Lakes Elementary student attacked her, according to the Pembroke Pines Police Department.

Florida government buildings, parks and other facilities will fly their flags at half-staff on Monday in honor of the 14 students and three staff members killed in the 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas massacre.

Nearly a dozen shots were fired by one driver in an apparent road rage dispute in North Miami.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday handed off five checks — totaling 79.8 million — for infrastructure resiliency projects in South Florida.

Officials say two South Florida sheriff’s deputies were injured during a chase involving a reckless driver.

For the first time since Dec. 17, Gov. Ron DeSantis spoke on the state's response to the omicron surge in Florida.

Vendors and all adult visitors will be required to wear face masks when visiting Broward County public school campuses, the school board decided Friday during an emergency hearing.

Detectives arrested a man Tuesday who is accused of plowing into a group of children in South Florida.

The search continues for a driver who police say struck six children in South Florida Monday, killing two of them and sending the other four to the hospital.

Two children have died and three other children were injured when a vehicle plowed into them Monday afternoon in Wilton Manors, authorities confirmed.

Broward County is well underway with restoring this old landmark — at 644 S. Andrews Ave., situated just south of a Publix supermarket — to its former splendor in the city’s downtown.

Police say a 16-year-old South Florida high school student was arrested after authorities found a loaded firearm in a small bag.

A teacher in South Florida has been fired for repeatedly refusing to wear a mask.

The Florida Agency for Health Care Administration has begun a process to revoke a South Florida assisted living home’s license.

Gov. Ron DeSantis holds a news conference in Fort Lauderdale.

A Broward County woman faces charges after authorities detained her for attempting to smuggle 56 guns across the Michigan-Canada border, Canada Border Services Agency announced Friday.

Police say a carnival worker shot fired a gun into the air during an argument with a co-worker and the bullet went through the window of a nearby assisted living facility and struck a 91-year-old woman.

COVID-19 has had a staggering impact on the sheriff's department in Broward County, Florida.

Biologists were taken by surprise by a record number of leatherback turtle nests found along South Florida beaches this year.

The Miya Marcano Foundation is hosting its first fundraising event where they will release 1,900 butterflies in the 19-year-old’s honor next week.

President Joe Biden’s administration on Monday warned top Florida education officials to “reconsider your threatened actions” after the state said it would try to thwart attempts to use federal money to cover salaries of county school-board members who approved student mask requirements.

Tumbling COVID-19 case counts have some schools around the U.S. considering relaxing their mask rules, but deaths nationally have been ticking up over the past few weeks.

The families of those killed, wounded and scarred in the 2018 Florida high school massacre have reached a $25 million settlement with the district.

Two people survived after their plane crashed in Miramar late Monday night, authorities confirmed.

A miracas-holding, dancing hard-shell taco GIF was posted to the Broward County government’s Facebook page Tuesday morning and it sparked social outrage, according to the Washington Post.

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement issued an Amber Alert Saturday morning for two children missing out of Broward County.

Hillsborough and Miami-Dade counties have become the third and fourth school districts in Florida to adopt stricter mask mandates, a day after school boards in Broward and Alachua counties faced threats of severe penalties for defying Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration, which says parents should decide whether their children wear masks.

The board, during an emergency meeting, voted to direct state Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran to “investigate” the actions of Alachua County and Broward County school officials.

Florida’s health officials say the number of COVID-19 deaths jumped significantly from 600, reported in the previous week, to more than 1,000 reported this week.

A Florida school district is “waiting for guidance” after reversing its initial mask mandate due to the governor’s executive order that bans mandates and threatens to cut funding from districts that do not comply.

A driver of a tanker truck is dead after the truck crashed and caught on fire on the I-595 ramp in Broward County on Sunday, according to Florida Highway Patrol.

Filed by a group of lawyers in Broward County, the lawsuit was filed on behalf of Floridians who say they lost work because of the COVID-19 pandemic, many who in some cases they say are facing eviction and having a tough time supporting their families.

Authorities say a 5-year-old Florida child who had been reported missing drowned in a residential pool.

Officials say a driver unintentionally slammed into spectators at the start of a Pride parade in South Florida, killing one person and seriously injuring another.

A driver had quite the scare while on the road while moving on Interstate 75.

A former South Florida sheriff who was removed from office by the governor because of his agency’s response to the Parkland school shooting that left 17 people dead has found a new job reviewing the footage of red light cameras.

The superintendent of the Florida school district where 17 students and staff died in a 2018 high school massacre has been arrested on a charge that he lied to a grand jury.

Hackers who sought $40 million in ransom from a South Florida school district that refused to pay have now published nearly 26,000 stolen files.

A naval mine washed ashore in Broward County where many people usually go to relax on the beach, News 6 partner Local 10 reported.

That roadside encounter, in November, was the exception rather than the rule when it comes to enforcing a new Florida law against texting and driving. AdBut the new law against texting is rarely enforced, according to official state figures. The report also contained at least one major error – discovered after the fact by a news reporter – that overcounted texting tickets by hundreds. AdIn Miami-Dade County, with an estimated 2 million drivers, police wrote 295 texting tickets, or about six each week. Those provisions make the texting law difficult to enforce, said Kinsey, the Alachua County sheriff’s sergeant.

Florida’s Department of Health reports that 30,065 state residents have died and more than 1.8 million have been infected. Officials say 530 people who live outside the state have died of the virus in Florida. On Monday, there were 4,147 COVID-19 hospitalizations in Florida, according to a state online census of hospital beds. AdGeller noted that there are 340,000 seniors in Broward County and only about 250,000 of them will want the vaccine when it is first available. We will continue to work to ensure that every senior in Florida that wants a vaccine, will receive a vaccine,” he said.

Yet, with Valentine's Day on Sunday marking the three-year milestone, the trial of 22-year-old Nikolas Cruz is in limbo. Another is the sheer magnitude of the case, with hundreds of witnesses from Feb. 14, 2018, at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. But prosecutors won't budge on seeking the death penalty at trial. Ad“Going for the death penalty will not bring our loved ones back to us. His defense isn't focused on his guilt or innocence; it's more about sparing him from the death penalty, his lawyers have said in court.

BROWARD COUNTY, Fla. – Florida man has struck again, this time targeting garbage trucks in Broward County. A man was seen wearing black garbage bags and goggles at the Waste Pro facility in Pompano Beach on Oct. 18, according to deputies. Video recorded at the building shows the man lighting a garbage truck on fire, then torching several more as he made his way back toward the front gate. Before leaving, the video shows him putting a clear bottle of liquid inside a building, which he then also set on fire. If you wish to remain anonymous, contact Broward Crime Stoppers at 954-493-8477 or online at browardcrimestoppers.org.