Fort Lauderdale FL

Yashad Dashawn Jackson, 21, of Pompano Beach, was arrested yesterday after allegedly trying to collect a debt from the wrong person; even after admitting the victim was the wrong person, he allegedly kept asking for more money and eventually burglarized an apartment and held the occupants at gunpoint. The post Pompano Beach man found hiding in dishwasher after allegedly holding multiple people at gunpoint...

LCM (50 meters) Welcome to the first day of the 2026 Fort Lauderdale Open! Last year’s Pro Swim Series meet at this pool saw two World Records from Gretchen Walsh and Katie Ledecky, and both swimmers are back this year along with a few other major swimmers. There is...

FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. (WSVN) - Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue crews rescued a kitten from a draining situation on Wednesday. Crews responded to a storm drain at Southeast 26th Street and S. Andrews Avenue in Fort Lauderdale, where a feline had gotten stuck. The kitten’s cries echoed from the drain as...

Shifting market changes have prompted two developers to downsize a mixed-use project in Plantation, FL. Initially, in 2023, Related Group and BH Group secured approval for residential and commercial space – specifically 512 residences and 24,970 square feet of commercial space. New plans call for a 24.8 percent reduction...

A human rights organization is calling on the Coral Springs Police Department to intensify its investigation into the disappearance of Skylee Merino, a 15-year-old Coral Springs girl who has been missing since April 21 and, according to them, has not made contact with her family in nine days. The Human...

A Boca Raton man with a lengthy criminal history was arrested last weekend after city police said they found cocaine, marijuana, drug paraphernalia and a firearm during a traffic stop near a local restaurant. Jimmy H. Sun, 36, of Boca Raton, was taken into custody around 1:48 a.m. April 25, 2026, following a pursuit that […]

PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. (CBS12) — A Coconut Creek man is accused of pulling off a pair of high-dollar thefts from Palm Beach County video game stores, and police say he did it using a device usually reserved for employees. The Palm Springs Police Department said that 35-year-old Darrious...

What was supposed to be a routine arrival from Cartagena turned into a federal drug case at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, where customs officers say a secondary inspection revealed a "large anomaly" in a passenger's groin area that turned out to be about 1.75 kilograms of cocaine. The traveler, identified in court papers as Marco, was taken into federal custody and is being...

MIAMI — A man accused of killing a South Florida minister and her grandson back in 2013 has taken a plea deal. It comes a week after he had an outburst in court. Reginald Jackson, 40, and Roderick Martin, 39, were charged in the murders of 70-year-old Annette Anderson and 20-year-old Tyrone Walker Jr. in Miami Gardens.

There are 244 missing children in Florida today, from 1968 through 2026. That number will change. Many runaways return home, but some are classified as endangered missing people or non-family abductions. Sometimes they are victims of homicide.