Marissa Bagg

2 weeks ago | nbcmiami.com | Marissa Bagg

A rooster that was the victim of a brutal beating that was caught on camera in a Fort Lauderdale neighborhood has fully recovered and is on his way to a new home. Roger the Rooster is fully healed after spending five weeks at Welleby Veterinary Hospital in Sunrise. It was back on April 15 in Fort Lauderdale's Riverside Park neighborhood when someone attacked Roger, hitting him repeatedly. Surveillance video captured the beating.

2 weeks ago | nbcmiami.com | Marissa Bagg

An apartment fire forced 38 people, including almost a dozen children, out of their homes in Lauderdale Lakes late Tuesday. The flames torched a first floor apartment at the Seawind Lakes Apartments just after 11 p.m. People in all four stories of the building were evacuated for hours while the Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue battled the flames. No one was injured, but nine families now have to find somewhere else to stay. "We couldn't come out in the hallway," resident Majorie Johnson said.

2 weeks ago | nbcmiami.com | Julia Bagg |Marissa Bagg

Authorities are still searching for whoever shot and killed a 19-year-old woman during a party at an Airbnb in Fort Lauderdale. The shooting happened around 4:30 a.m. Monday at a duplex at 828 Southwest 16th Street. According to Fort Lauderdale Police, it started with some sort of altercation and ended when a man pulled out a handgun and shot 19-year-old Myrah Zeigler.

3 weeks ago | nbcmiami.com | Marissa Bagg

Fort Lauderdale police are still searching for a hit-and-run driver that smashed into a house and took off. No one was home, but homeowner James Decrescenzo wants change at what he calls a dangerous intersection. The crash happened on Northwest 13th Street and 7th Avenue, Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue said. Witnesses said the driver of a Jaguar collided into the house, and then ran from the scene. Decrescenzo took NBC6 crews inside show the extent of the damage in the living and dining room.

3 weeks ago | nbcmiami.com | Marissa Bagg

An Oakland Park community is mourning the sudden death of a longtime Broward Sheriff's Office employee who was crushed under his RV just months after he retired. Craig Bachan, 64, died Wednesday outside his home along Northwest 36th Court near 18th Avenue. Lisa Miceli lived across the street from Bachan and was shocked by his death. "Just devastated, still am," Miceli said Thursday. "Very good neighbor, very close.