Victim identified as 38-year-old Clarence King
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Fort Lauderdale police released audio Thursday of the 911 calls made after a man was shot Wednesday by a tow truck driver.
“I need an ambulance right now! I need an ambulance right now!” an agitated 911 caller told a dispatcher.
Surveillance cameras captured the chaos Wednesday morning in the 100 block of Carolina Avenue.
“It’s... [...]
SURFSIDE, Fla. – Tourists visiting South Florida were robbed in broad daylight, ambushed by thieves who followed them to a Publix supermarket.
At the scene, shattered glass from a broken car window tells part of the story a shocking jewelry robbery.
“A lot of time these crooks are brazen, they don’t play by any rules,” said Surfside Police Sgt. Jay Matelis. “If they see an opportunity they will take it.”
According to... [...]
An unprecedented statewide hand recount is now under way in the Sunshine State, further extending a muddled, high stakes battle over every last vote in Florida’s crucial U.S. Senate race.
But, barring a legal challenge, the race for governor is over.
Following a five-day machine recount of the more than 8.3 million votes cast in the Nov. 6 election, Secretary of State Ken Detzner ordered hand recounts Thursday afternoon in the U.S. Senate... [...]
Hundreds of people who work in the so-called "gig economy" have gathered to protest outside Britain's Royal Courts of Justice as Uber appealed earlier legal rulings that have broad implications for its business model.
The demonstrators argue San Francisco-based Uber should honor decisions that ruled that the two drivers in the case were "workers" under British law and therefore eligible for minimum wage and paid holidays.
Uber has argued... [...]
Environmental groups trying to foil a new toll expressway into West Kendall are asking a judge to block the plan, citing what they call misleading information shared with the public before Miami-Dade commissioners approved it.
The legal actions by the Tropical Audubon Society and Friends of the Everglades aren’t a surprise. The groups sent letters signaling a likely court fight before commissioners voted in September to change the... [...]
