Pompano Beach fire officials respond to brush fire, discover charred body

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on June 3, 2024. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, News.

Pompano Beach Fire Rescue responded to a large brush fire Sunday morning and discovered a charred body. Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies and Pompano Beach Fire Rescue were called to the fire at 3161 N. Dixie Highway about 11 a.m. Drivers along North Dixie Highway reported the fire, according to the Pompano Beach Fire Rescue. As firefighters were extinguishing the blaze, they discovered a body so badly burnt they were unable to confirm the gender. They also found numerous encampments in the wooded area. It is believed the body belongs to someone who had been living in the encampment, but...

Retired Navy admiral who lives in South Florida arrested in bribery case linked to government contract

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on June 1, 2024. Posted in Crime and Public Safety, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, National News, News.

WASHINGTON — A retired four-star admiral who was once the Navy’s second highest ranking officer was arrested Friday on charges that he helped a company secure a government contract for a training program in exchange for a lucrative job with the firm. Robert Burke, who served as vice chief of naval operations, faces federal charges including bribery and conspiracy for what prosecutors allege was a corrupt scheme that led to the company hiring him after his retirement in 2022 with a starting annual salary of $500,000. He oversaw naval operations in Europe, Russia, and most of Africa. Also...

3 killed, including suspected gunman, in Minneapolis shooting, police say

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on May 31, 2024. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, National News, News.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Three people, including the suspected gunman, are dead after a shooting Thursday at a Minneapolis apartment complex, police said. Two police officers were also hospitalized with injuries from the shooting in the south Minneapolis neighborhood of Whittier. Police said the public was not in danger but encouraged people to stay away from the scene. No other details were immediately released. Police planned a late evening news conference to address the shooting. An earlier statement from police indicated there were four civilians injured along with two officers. News footage...

Teen accused of killing grandmother had ‘behavioral issues’ after witnessing Ukraine war, warrant says

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on May 30, 2024. Posted in Crime and Public Safety, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, News.

A 14-year-old girl who is accused of killing her grandmother in Lauderdale Lakes had recently moved to South Florida from Ukraine, where she witnessed the ongoing war, and was experiencing “behavioral issues,” according to a warrant for her arrest. Yevheniia Koval, 79, was found unresponsive by her son about 12:30 a.m. May 23 at a home in the 4100 block of Northwest 41st Street, the Broward Sheriff’s Office said in a news release Tuesday. Koval’s son said he left his 14-year-old daughter with his mother when he went out to visit a friend. The South Florida Sun Sentinel is not identifying...

Sean Kingston waives extradition in California and will return to South Florida to face fraud charges

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on May 29, 2024. Posted in Crime and Public Safety, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, News.

Rapper and singer Sean Kingston waived his extradition hearing Tuesday, agreeing to return to South Florida since his arrest last week in California on a warrant for multiple fraud and theft charges. Kingston, whose real name is Kisean Anderson, was arrested on a warrant in Fort Irwin, California, on Thursday evening — the same day Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies raided his mansion in Southwest Ranches related to the alleged theft and fraud. His mother, Janice Turner, was also arrested Thursday on multiple fraud and theft charges, the Sheriff’s Office said. Kingston, 34, did not make a...

Transitional council in Haiti selects new prime minister for a country under siege by gangs

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on May 29, 2024. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, News, World News.

By DÁNICA COTO (Associated Press) SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — U.N. development specialist Garry Conille was named Haiti’s new prime minister Tuesday evening, nearly a month after a coalition within a fractured transitional council sought to choose someone else for the position. The long-awaited move comes as gangs continue to terrorize the capital of Port-au-Prince, opening fire in once peaceful neighborhoods and using heavy machinery to demolish several police stations and prisons. Council member Louis Gérald Gilles told The Associated Press that six out of seven council members with...

Former ‘General Hospital’ actor Johnny Wactor killed in downtown Los Angeles shooting

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on May 27, 2024. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, National News, News, Obituaries, Things To Do, TV and Streaming.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former “General Hospital” actor Johnny Wactor was shot and killed when he interrupted thieves stealing the catalytic converter from his car in Los Angeles, his family said Sunday. The shooting occurred around 3 a.m. Saturday when the victim approached three men in downtown LA, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. His mother, Scarlett Wactor, told ABC 7 that her 37-year-old son had left work at a rooftop bar with a coworker when he saw someone at his car and thought it was being towed. A mask-wearing suspect opened fire, his mother said. Three suspects drove...

Husband of missing Fort Lauderdale woman indicted; blood was found in Madrid apartment, FBI agent says

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on May 26, 2024. Posted in Crime and Public Safety, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, News.

Months after a Fort Lauderdale woman went missing in Spain, a grand jury indicted her husband on kidnapping charges, prosecutors announced Friday. Meanwhile, his defense attorney has filed a motion arguing for his release from a Miami prison. The motion and a recent cross examination bring new details to light about what might — or might not — have happened the day that Ana Knezevich disappeared in Madrid. Blood was found in her apartment, and yet detectives have not concluded whose it is. Knezevich had been feeling suicidal, but because of her husband, investigators said. Meanwhile,...

Prosecutors seek to bar Trump from statements endangering law enforcement in classified records case

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on May 25, 2024. Posted in Crime and Public Safety, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, National News, News.

By ERIC TUCKER (Associated Press) WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors on Friday asked the judge overseeing the classified documents case against Donald Trump to bar the former president from public statements that “pose a significant, imminent, and foreseeable danger to law enforcement agents” participating in the prosecution. The request to U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon follows a distorted claim by Trump earlier this week that the FBI agents who searched his Mar-a-Lago estate in August 2022 were “authorized to shoot me” and were “locked & loaded ready to take me out & put my...

Judge revisits ruling that blocked Florida from criminalizing transport of immigrants

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on May 24, 2024. Posted in Florida News, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, News.

A day after blocking part of a state law aimed at cracking down on illegal immigration, a federal judge Thursday appeared to have second thoughts about the scope of a preliminary injunction he issued. U.S. District Judge Roy Altman initially applied the injunction statewide. But he issued an order Thursday that partially quoted an Arkansas case and said on “further reflection, and given the ‘national conversation taking place in both the legal academy and the judiciary concerning the propriety of courts using universal injunctions as a matter of preliminary relief,’ we now invite further...

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