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This is the mosque at 7350 NW Third St. U.S. Department of Justice charge six individuals for providing material support to the Pakistani Taliban on Saturday, May 14, 2011.

3 South Florida residents, including imam from Margate, arrested in Taliban case

August 22, 2019 at 8:00 p.m.

Federal law enforcement agents arrested three South Florida residents early Saturday on charges that they helped funnel money to Taliban terrorists in Pakistan. The money they collected, prosecutors said, was...

`Take this storm seriously’

August 21, 2021 at 5:54 a.m.

Visitors and mobile home residents in the Florida Keys were ordered to evacuate Monday after Tropical Storm Ernesto lashed Cuba with heavy rain and headed for the United States. Gov....

Rain hinders recovery across South Florida

August 22, 2021 at 3:21 p.m.

More than a week after Hurricane Wilma smashed through South Florida with death and devastation, fire and rain brought further trouble Tuesday. "We're getting a large number of generator fires,...

Florida to appeal judge?s ruling allowing slots on July 1

August 18, 2019 at 3:42 p.m.

Lawyers representing the state of Florida decided Friday to appeal a judge's ruling that allows slot machines to be installed as early as July 1 in Broward County's four pari-mutuels,...

Drafting slots rules for Broward will push starting date past July 1

August 18, 2019 at 3:11 p.m.

Broward County commissioners will decide Tuesday whether to begin writing regulations for slot machines after a judge ruled that the county's four pari-mutuel venues could start installing the gambling devices...

Plans for slots will hinge on details that emerge from Legislature

August 18, 2019 at 3:07 p.m.

The redevelopment of Broward County's three struggling racetracks and jai-alai fronton into major casino-entertainment venues could begin as early as summer following voter approval this week of slot-machine gambling. The...

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Teacher Judy Kopelow, from the Broward Teachers Union, supports slot machines in Broward County at the Tamarac Branch Library on Wednesday.

Gambling industry deceiving public about job creation, slot machine foes say

August 18, 2019 at 3:07 p.m.

Anti-slot-machine activists are accusing the gambling industry of holding campaign rallies -- disguised as job fairs and inflating data about the jobs that would be created -- to deceive South...

Gambling foes start anti-slots campaign through e-mails, voter guides

August 18, 2019 at 3:42 p.m.

Activists involved in the March 8 referendum on slot-machine gambling launched a counterattack this week with e-mail blasts and voter guides responding to the pari-mutuel industry that so far has...

Business leaders, police union at odds over slot-machine referendum

August 18, 2019 at 3:06 p.m.

Broward County's business leadership and its police association are taking opposite sides in the upcoming vote on whether to allow slot machine gambling at area racetracks and jai-alai frontons. The...

Broward Property Appraiser William Markham dies of heart attack

August 18, 2019 at 3:00 p.m.

With a freshly cut rose pinned as always to his lapel, Broward County's longtime property appraiser, Bill Markham, stood in front of Fort Lauderdale's Emerald Society belting out God Bless...

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