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Lauderdale Lakes plans employee raises to make up for previous cuts
— While some cities have taken heat for giving employees raises in tough financial times, commissioners here say it's an obligation they have to keep. When the city was teetering on the brink of bankruptcy two years ago, employees were forced to...Tags: Employees, Career and Workplace
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Modern Day Willy Wonka engineers sweet success with specialty candy stores
Every time 9-year-old Makhia Wilson of Lauderdale Lakes comes to Sawgrass Mills mall in Sunrise, there is one store she always visits: the candy store It'Sugar. Inside, she bounces around, rapidly pointing to candy bin after candy bin, her bright...Tags: Deerfield Beach, Sawgrass Mills, Delray Beach, Consumer Goods Industries, Apple iPhone
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Proposed Walmarts heighten expectations -- and fears
Love them or hate them, more Walmarts are popping up in South Florida, including in urban areas where they once were hard to find. Two now on the drawing board for Fort Lauderdale have nearby residents hopeful — the city has none at this time...
Tags: Sunrise (Broward, Florida), Delray Beach, Florida's Turnpike, Cooper City, Kmart
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Couple sought after Lauderdale Lakes purse snatching
Broward Sheriff's detectives are circulating surveillance video with the hope someone will recognize and report a couple suspected in a purse snatching. The strong arm robbery occurred just before 11 p.m. on March 12, at a Walgreens store at 3099 N....
Tags: Theft
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New charter school opening in Lauderdale Lakes
Pathways Academy, a new charter school in Lauderdale Lakes, is enrolling students in grades K through 6, in time for the first day of school Aug. 19. Charles Malatesta, co-founder and chief executive officer of the school’s education management...Tags: Charter Schools, Schools
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Champions of the Middle Class, or Bad for Business? Lawmakers earn conflicting grade cards
Tallahassee Bureau ChiefTALLAHASSEE -- Are they champions for middle-class families and job killers at the same time? Florida lawmakers routinely get chaffed and praised by Florida's powerful business lobby following the legislative session in report cards released by the...Tags: Justice System, Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), St. Petersburg (Pinellas, Florida), Plantation, Rick Scott
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Lauderdale Lakes commission won't pursue ouster of one of its own
The City Commission won't try to remove Commissioner Eric Haynes from office, taking him at his word that he lives in the city. Commissioner Gloria Lewis had asked the commission to find probable cause that Haynes no longer lives here. She said she...Tags: FBI
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Williams tapped to lead Legislative Black Caucus
Tallahassee Bureau ChiefTALLAHASSEE -- The Florida Legislature's black caucus has tapped Rep. Alan Williams, D-Tallahassee, to lead the caucus next year. Williams is replacing Tampa Sen. Arthenia Joyner, D-Tampa, as chair of the 27-member Florida Legislative Black Caucus,...Tags: Tallahassee (Leon, Florida), Tampa, Florida Legislature, Hollywood (Broward, Florida)
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Lauderdale Lakes homeowners face 41 percent increase in fire fee
Homeowners already charged one of the highest property tax rates in the county could see their fire assessments increase more than 40 percent this year — to more than $300. Residential property owners are being asked to share a larger portion of...
Tags: Broward County Sheriff's Office
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Lauderdale Lakes rental inspection program challenged in federal court
A group of Lauderdale Lakes apartment complexes is suing the city in federal court, claiming the city's new rental inspection program amounts to warrant-less searches of their property. The suit seeks to have the law declared unconstitutional and asks...
Tags: Rentals, Justice System, Lauderhill, Lawyers, Crime, Law and Justice
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Reporter who exposed NSA phone tracking has Broward roots
The activist lawyer, blogger and reporter who upturned the intelligence world by exposing how the National Security Agency monitored millions of phone logs once dabbled in politics himself. In Lauderdale Lakes, 28 years ago. As a teen, then again in...
Tags: Nova High School , National Security Agency, Josephus Eggelletion, New York University, Politics
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Lauderdale man sentenced in 2010 beating death
A Fort Lauderdale man surrendered on Monday to begin serving a 5-year prison term after taking a plea deal on a manslaughter charge in a 2010 brawl that left a Lauderhill man dead. Michael George, 23, of Fort Lauderdale, pleaded no contest to the...
Tags: Justice System, Lauderhill, Fort Lauderdale, Trials, Punishment
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