Cooper City News

All season long Miami and Chelsea enjoyed a healthy competition in the Girls U14 division of the Cooper City Optimist Soccer League.

Columnist Ellyn Laub picked up a skill while working a switchboard in the 1970s that helps her today: managing cords.

Over the next 18 months, philanthropists Phyllis and Al Thomas will match dollar-for-dollar contributions made to Women In Distress through a $250,000 “Vision for the Future” challenge grant. The foundation, which has been supporting the organization for the past decade, will now be considered a legacy donor at the $1 million level.

After years of adversity, the Miami Marlins show promise this year. But even if the team struggles again, it may have fewer headaches than the Houston Astros and Boston Red Sox.

Can they take out their own trash? Broward cities are organizing to figure out if they can — or should — overthrow corporate giant Waste Management to handle their own garbage and recycling, possibly with the creation of a new taxing district.

By Lisa J. Huriash

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March and the first part of April are filled with festivals, including the Broward Public Library Foundation’s Literary Feast, the Palm Beach Book Festival and he Diane & Barry Wilen Jewish Book Festival.

The Blue Stars defended their championship title in the Pompano Youth Soccer 13-16 age division by defeating Pompano United 2-0 at Pompano Community Park.

Zoë Annslee Blackmon, of Hollywood Hills Elementary School, was nominated for Sun Sentinel/Publix Kids of Character for Kindness.

By Jennifer Boehm

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A man inside an Infiniti QX30 was shot and killed early Monday in Pompano Beach and another man outside the car was wounded. No known suspect information has been released.

By Doug Phillips

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A glut of Italian restaurants on Las Olas Boulevard has apparently reached its limit, as Tuscan Prime announced its abrupt closing on Feb. 27, 2020. The Italian steakhouse opened in May 2019 and lasted nine months. A dozen other Italian restaurants and pizzerias remain on the downtown Fort Lauderdale stretch

By Michael Mayo

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Top events this weekend include Day Out With Thomas in Miami, Butterfly Festival in Coconut Creek and Glow in the Park in Boca Raton.

By Jennifer Boehm

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The best bars for Spring Break 2020 worth visiting in Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood, Miami Beach, Delray Beach and West Palm Beach.

By Phillip Valys

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February is Stay at the Scene awareness month, designed to change the mindset of drivers and lower the number of hit-and-run crashes.

By Wayne K. Roustan

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Students at Deerfield Beach High School are again mourning the death of a beloved classmate, as they’ve done already twice this year.

By Brooke Baitinger

Feb 26, 2020

Justin Flippen, 41, the mayor of Wilton Manors, died on Tuesday after suffering a brain aneurysm. He had apparently been on his way to the City Commission meeting when he had the medical emergency.

By Anthony Man

Feb 26, 2020

A bank robbery in Deerfield Beach was not the first heist for James Andrew Phillips, according to federal investigators. Following his capture on Monday, Phillips told the feds he was recently released from prison after 22 years for an earlier bank robbery and that he couldn't find a job and was desperate for money.

By Doug Phillips

Feb 26, 2020

Carlos Jeovany Gutierrez, now 19, of Miami, was arrested Tuesday on 10 charges including failing to remain at the scene of an accident involving a death and driving without a license.

By Lisa J. Huriash

Feb 26, 2020

Justin Flippen, the mayor of Wilton Manors, died suddenly Tuesday. City officials said that Flippen apparently was driving to Tuesday evening’s City Commission meeting when he became ill and died.

By Anthony Man

Feb 26, 2020