George Santos pleads not guilty to federal indictment and says he won’t resign

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on May 11, 2023. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, National News, News, Politics.

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ and MICHAEL R. SISAK (Associated Press) CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) — U.S. Rep. George Santos, infamous for fabricating his life story, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges he duped donors, stole from his campaign and lied to Congress about being a millionaire, all while cheating to collect unemployment benefits he didn’t deserve. Afterward, he said he wouldn’t drop his reelection bid and defied calls to resign. Santos’ 13-count federal indictment was a reckoning for a web of fraud and deceit that prosecutors say overlapped with the New York Republican’s fantastical public...

BSO detective accused of not fully investigating sex crimes, threatening a victim with deportation

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on May 10, 2023. Posted in Crime and Public Safety, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, News.

A veteran Broward Sheriff’s detective was arrested Tuesday on charges of official misconduct and extortion after an investigation found he had falsified information in numerous sex crime cases and closed the cases without fully investigating them, the Sheriff’s Office said. Det. Demetrious Campbell, 48, has been with the Sheriff’s Office since 2002. He is now suspended without pay, and investigators are reviewing many of his cases, Veda Coleman-Wright, a spokesperson for the Sheriff’s Office, said in a news release Tuesday evening. Concerns about Campbell surfaced in early April after a sexual...

Jury finds Trump liable for sexual abuse, awards accuser $5M

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on May 10, 2023. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, National News, News.

By LARRY NEUMEISTER, JENNIFER PELTZ and MICHAEL R. SISAK (Associated Press) NEW YORK (AP) — A jury found Donald Trump liable Tuesday for sexually abusing advice columnist E. Jean Carroll in 1996, awarding her $5 million in a judgment that could haunt the former president as he campaigns to regain the White House. The verdict was split: Jurors rejected Carroll’s claim that she was raped, finding Trump responsible for a lesser degree of sexual abuse. The judgment adds to Trump’s legal woes and offers vindication to Carroll, whose allegations had been mocked and dismissed by Trump for years. She...

Source: Investigators examine ideology of Texas gunman

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on May 8, 2023. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, National News, News.

By JAKE BLEIBERG, MICHAEL BALSAMO and JAMIE STENGLE (Associated Press) ALLEN, Texas (AP) — Federal officials were looking into whether the gunman who killed eight people at a Dallas-area mall expressed an interest in white supremacist ideology Sunday as they work to try to discern a motive for the attack, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press. The official cautioned the investigation is in its early stages. Federal agents have been reviewing social media accounts they believe Mauricio Garcia, 33, used and posts that expressed interest in white supremacist and neo-Nazi views, said...

83-year-old cyclist killed in crash with garbage truck on Florida’s Turnpike

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on May 6, 2023. Posted in Crime and Public Safety, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, News.

A garbage truck slammed into an 83-year-old bicyclist on Florida’s Turnpike in Davie early Friday morning, killing him, according to Florida Highway Patrol. The accident occurred a little after 5 a.m., when the 83-year-old man from Lauderhill was riding his bicycle southbound in the outside travel lane of the turnpike, south of Interstate 595, according to an FHP media release. The roadway is a “limited access facility,” and riding a bicycle there is illegal. A 48-year old man from Lauderdale Lakes was driving the garbage truck southbound in the same lane when he hit the rear end of the bicycle,...

Driver injured in possible road rage shooting on I-95 in Broward

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on May 6, 2023. Posted in Crime and Public Safety, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, News.

A driver was met with a spray of bullets while merging onto Interstate 95 in Oakland Park during Friday morning rush hour, according to Florida Highway Patrol. A little before 9 a.m., FHP received a call about a “possible road rage incident resulting in a shooting,” according to a media release. The driver was merging onto the highway from Oakland Park Boulevard in a gray Chevy, heading north, when a person inside a black Honda Civic with a temporary license plate shot at the Chevy multiple times, hitting the passenger side. The shooter then fled. The driver survived largely unscathed, but had...

Proud Boys’ Tarrio guilty of Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on May 5, 2023. Posted in Florida News, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, National News, News, Politics.

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, LINDSAY WHITEHURST and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER (Associated Press) WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and three other members of the far-right extremist group were convicted Thursday of a plot to attack the U.S. Capitol in a desperate bid to keep Donald Trump in power after the Republican lost the 2020 presidential election. A jury in Washington, D.C., found Tarrio and three lieutenants guilty of seditious conspiracy after hearing from dozens of witnesses over more than three months in one of the most serious cases brought in the stunning attack that...

County Commission votes on GL Homes swap

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on May 4, 2023. Posted in Environment, Florida News, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Local News, News.

A controversial land swap that would enable the development of 1,000 luxury homes in Palm Beach County’s Agricultural Reserve received initial support from the Board of Commissioners Wednesday night. The 5-2 vote was a major victory for GL Homes, one of the leading residential developers in Palm Beach County. It also signals a major change to the Ag Reserve, which county voters overwhelmingly agreed in 1999 to keep mostly rural. The approval now goes to the state for review and will come back to the commission Aug. 30 for final adoption. “We are pleased the Palm Beach County Commission saw merit...

Prosecutor: Suspected Texas gunman tried to escape to Mexico

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on May 4, 2023. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, National News, News.

By JUAN A. LOZANO and NOMAAN MERCHANT (Associated Press) CLEVELAND, Texas (AP) — A man suspected of killing five of his neighbors in Texas after they asked him to stop shooting his gun near their house hid out just miles away from the slayings while he and his domestic partner plotted his escape to Mexico, authorities said Wednesday. Francisco Oropeza showered and slept at the house outside the city of Conroe on Tuesday while Divimara Lamar Nava got him donuts from a nearby store, a prosecutor said. Lamar Nava also acknowledged delivering a message from Oropeza to his cousins in the area asking...

Serena Williams reveals second pregnancy at Met Gala

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on May 2, 2023. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, National News, Network, News, Sports, Things To Do.

By Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News Tennis superstar Serena Williams is pregnant with her second child and doesn’t care who knows. “There’s three of us here,” she told Vogue host La La Anthony at Monday’s Met Gala. “I’m feeling good. I can breathe. I can stop. I’m not hiding.” Williams attended the big bash honoring designer Karl Lagerfeld with her husband Alexis Ohanian. They were accompanied by model Brooklyn Beckham and his wife, actor Nicola Peltz. Alex Syphers | Special to the CourantSerena Williams attends The 2023 Met Gala Celebrating “Karl Lagerfeld: A Line Of Beauty” at The Metropolitan...

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