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1 week ago | 
sun-sentinel.com | Rafael Olmeda
An upgraded convention center with a new 801-room hotel, airport improvements and countywide public-transportation enhancements are among the projects being celebrated in Broward County's annual financial report, issued to the County Commission this week. Originally Published: April 16, 2025 at 11:10 AM EDT
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1 week ago | 
sun-sentinel.com | Rafael Olmeda
Both houses of the Florida Legislature are weighing a bill that would bring big changes to Gulfstream Park, behind the scenes at first but inevitably at the racetrack itself, according to critics of the plan. Originally Published: April 11, 2025 at 7:30 AM EDT
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1 week ago | 
sun-sentinel.com | Rafael Olmeda
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2 weeks ago | 
sun-sentinel.com | Rafael Olmeda
Developers are planning to break ground later this year on a 237-unit apartment building in Deerfield Beach, bringing activity to a mostly vacant lot whose southern tip is home to a two-story office building on the northwest corner of Federal Highway and Northwest Second Street. The new housing, at 201 N. Federal Highway, would rise near a prominent stretch of the city, just north of East Hillsboro Boulevard and Federal Highway, also known as U.S. 1.
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3 weeks ago | 
sun-sentinel.com | Rafael Olmeda
Big-box stores and some smaller retailers will be required to give customers a chance to recycle used lithium-ion and similar batteries under a new rule passed by the Broward County Commission this week. The batteries, which are used in electronic devices including laptops, digital cameras, portable power banks, power tools and hoverboards, pose a danger if they’re not disposed of properly.
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3 weeks ago | 
sun-sentinel.com | Rafael Olmeda
Rapper Sean Kingston promised exposure to local businesses that sold him watches, a huge television, a Cadillac Escalade and other luxury items, but the businesses only wanted to get paid, a federal prosecutor told jurors Friday. That jury is now weighing whether Kingston, 35, performer of the inescapable 2007 song “Beautiful Girls” and other hits, is guilty along with his mother of wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
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3 weeks ago | 
sun-sentinel.com | Rafael Olmeda
A Lighthouse Point man who pleaded guilty in January to sexual battery against a family member and video voyeurism against a woman who accused him of raping her in the 1990s was arrested in Broward County Thursday morning, accused of violating the terms of the sex offender probation he was sentenced to serve for five years.
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4 weeks ago | 
sun-sentinel.com | Rafael Olmeda
A Margate man is facing criminal charges and possible deportation after using fraudulent documents to register to vote and cast ballots in at least two general elections, federal prosecutors said Thursday. Ashley R. Rivers, 64, is also accused of fraudulently applying for a U.S. passport using a fake name and birth certificate. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Rivers applied for the passport in 2016 and registered to vote in Broward County using the same fake name.
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4 weeks ago | 
orlandosentinel.com | Rafael Olmeda
Wells Fargo Bank will appeal Tuesday's landmark verdict awarding more than $800 million to a trust fund benefiting the children of the Seminole Tribe of Florida, a decision that came after a six-week trial in Broward County, a bank spokeswoman said.
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4 weeks ago | 
sun-sentinel.com | Rafael Olmeda
Wells Fargo Bank will appeal Tuesday’s landmark verdict awarding more than $800 million to a trust fund benefiting the children of the Seminole Tribe of Florida, a decision that came after a six-week trial in Broward County, a bank spokeswoman said.
