Partly sunny and mild today

A pretty sunrise over Fort Lauderdale beach. The forecast calls for mild temperatures on Tuesday. [...]

Longtime BSO chaplain quits while under investigation

The friendly, well-known chaplain for the past two decades at the Broward Sheriff’s Office resigned this week while under investigation by his own agency.
Rev. Rick Braswell was the subject of a probe by BSO’s equal employment opportunity office, which handles complaints of harassment and other violations of federal workplace law. BSO [...]

Breezy Friday; rainy, windy weekend

South Florida can expect a rainy windy weekend.
Breezy conditions are expected to continue on Friday, with gusts up to 25 mph. By Friday evening, rainshowers should start moving across the region, commencing a soggy weekend, the result of an unsettled atmosphere.
Officially, Friday’s forecast calls for partly sunny skies, highs in the mid [...]

Floridians facing foreclosure could lose their homes faster under plan making rounds in Tallahassee

Floridians facing foreclosure could be stripped of their homes faster and have routine access to the courts limited under a proposal likely to come before Gov. Rick Scott and the Legislature in the coming months.
Bankers see it as a speedy and efficient way to manage foreclosure cases and get tens of thousands [...]

South Florida drinking water faces saltwater threat

 Summer rains can’t wash away a growing underground threat to South Florida’s water supply.
Saltwater seeping in from the ocean keeps spreading farther west, threatening to foul underground freshwater supplies that provide most of South Florida’s drinking water.

 
"Saltwater intrusion" in South Florida has worsened through the decades as providing water and flood control [...]

AT&T mobile to mobile service now free in South Florida

AT&T has announced it will proactively add unlimited mobile to mobile calling service for more than 200,000 customers in South Florida.
The best part is that free unlimited mobile to mobile calling works whether you are calling the cell phone of another AT&T customer or not. The offer will be good for [...]

Aggressive mosquitoes bring misery to South Florida

A late-starting mosquito season has quickly developed into one of the worst in modern memory, forcing residents of many neighborhoods to run from their homes to their cars through swarms of blood-sucking insects.
Broward County Mosquito Control reports 500 to more than 700 complaints a day, as tiny, aggressive salt marsh mosquitoes blow in [...]