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A Plantation house fire that left a beloved doctor dead is being investigated as a possible case of arson, sources with knowledge of the matter tell Local 10 News.
As those who knew Dr. Karen Ruthman mourn her loss, Plantation police have made no public conclusions regarding the death of the family practice physician pulled from her burning home Thursday.
Plantation police continued their investigation Friday into the death of a doctor pulled from a house fire the day prior.
One person has died after a fire was reported Thursday morning at the home in the Plantation Acres, Plantation Fire Lt. Aston Bright confirmed to Local 10 News.
Clayous Peart, who was known as friendly “Rastaman Paul” in a tight-knit community in Broward County, died after a domestic violence shooting on Saturday afternoon.
With more than 4,000 election workers stationed at over 350 precincts, Broward Supervisor of Elections Joe Scott says the county is ready to deliver a smooth experience for voters on Election Day.
A South Florida man arrested in March after authorities accused him of paying a purported hitman in a murder-for-hire attempt against a business rival pleaded guilty on Tuesday, prosecutors said.
Officers pulled a car from a Plantation canal Sunday afternoon, and the vehicle is linked to a missing persons case dating back several years.
While “the grass is greener” in Plantation, as the city logo suggests, it’s also a little pinker these days as crews continue to fight off invasive snails laying eggs by the thousands near canals.
A Broward school district employee who allowed her transgender daughter to play girls’ volleyball, prompting a state investigation, will not lose her job.
A massage therapist is facing two felony charges after police said he sexually battered a client during an at-home session in Plantation in January.
Republican leaders released statements Sunday afternoon reacting to President Joe Biden’s decision to drop out of the race against former President Donald Trump and endorse Vice President Kamala Harris for the Democratic nomination.
A South Florida business owner says a woman who was captured on surveillance video last week taking boxes that had just been delivered has returned the packages.
Keith Louis said he poured his heart into Coastal Provisions, based out of Plantation. Surveillance video shows how the growing small business recently took a big blow.
A 25-year-old woman turned herself in at the Broward County jail on Tuesday to face a felony charge after police said she killed a bicyclist in a hit-and-run crash near her home in Plantation back in 2022.
Plantation police arrested a woman on an aggravated animal cruelty charge Thursday, saying she neglected a dog named Ruby to the point that the dog eventually had to be euthanized.
A man who federal agents said worked as a nurse at Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital appeared in Fort Lauderdale federal court Wednesday after U.S. Marshals arrested him on three federal child exploitation charges; FBI agents joined local law enforcement in raiding his Plantation home in May.
A patient care technician working at a South Florida hospital is accused of sexually battering two patients in their 70s, according to court documents obtained by Local 10 News on Tuesday.
A San Diego man was booked into the Broward Main Jail Thursday, one day before he’s scheduled to face a Fort Lauderdale federal judge in a child exploitation case being prosecuted in South Florida.
A woman with Autism-Asperger Syndrome spoke out Thursday after she says she was sexually assaulted at the Broward Mall in Plantation.
Lauren Thibert is a teacher at Peters Elementary School in Plantation. She is a star in the Broward County Public Schools’ Deaf or Hard of Hearing program.
A police officer reported finding a man who had pulled down his pink pants and was masturbating in public near the entrance of the JOANN fabric and craft store in Plantation.
A 16-year-old boy was showing off a pistol he had stolen two days earlier when he pointed the gun at someone’s head and pulled the trigger, telling Plantation police he did not believe it was loaded, an arrest report states. It was.
For three years, Stephen Fagan has been teaching sixth and seventh graders at Seminole Middle School in Plantation.
A 30-year-old mother — who has been in and out of jail for years in Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties — was at the Broward main jail on Friday in Fort Lauderdale.
Police are searching for the suspect who they said attacked and killed a man in front of his wife at a strip mall in Broward County.
Back in August, Local 10 told you about American Heritage High School football player Timothy Burroughs-Love, who collapsed after going into cardiac arrest on his team’s sideline during a preseason game.
An online group caught and confronted a Plantation man trying to meet with and sexually assault who he thought was an 11-year-old, according to police. Less than a month after that, police say he tried again to meet with a child — this time, as part of an official police sting.
A retired U.S. Marine accused of recently stabbing his wife 28 times and his 3-year-old son four times in Broward County had served in Iraq and suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and a traumatic brain injury, relatives told police, according to records released on Wednesday.
A 40-year-old man appeared in court on Sunday accused of killing both his 2-year-old son and his 38-year-old wife at their home in Plantation. Their 3-month-old child survived.
A man thought a Leap Day meeting in Plantation was with an assassin, but, unbeknownst to him, it was with an undercover federal agent, whom he would eventually pay $2,500 to kill a business rival, according to court documents released Thursday.
Authorities identified the victims found dead after a suspected murder and attempted suicide at a Plantation home as a mother and her 2-year-old son; the child’s father, they said, was taken to the hospital after an apparent overdose attempt.
There was a large police presence at a home in a Plantation neighborhood Tuesday afternoon as detectives investigated the deaths of two people.
A Broward County man has been charged with vehicular homicide in connection with a crash that occurred almost two years ago in Sunrise.
Rapper Kodak Black walked out of Broward County jail on Wednesday afternoon in Fort Lauderdale, threatened to punch Local 10 News Reporter Rosh Lowe, and threw rocks at Local 10 News photojournalist Bryan Murphy.
Rapper Kodak Black walked out of Broward County jail on Wednesday afternoon in Fort Lauderdale, threatened to punch Local 10 News Reporter Rosh Lowe, and threw rocks at Local 10 News photojournalist Bryan Murphy.
A teacher at Plantation High School sent numerous sexually-explicit text messages and voice messages to a 15-year-old girl in his study hall while in a “romantic relationship” with her, police said. He’s now facing a felony charge.
Ariana Intsiful, an 11th grader at NSU University school in Davie has launched a community service project to help parents and newborns at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at HCA Florida University hospital.
Lisa Botto Lee is a South Florida-based artist whose work will make it to the moon. She is the fifth generation of artists in her family and has painted countless portraits over the years, but the piece that made history was “Beyond The Window.”
A man was shot early Friday morning after a domestic incident sparked a police chase in Plantation and ended in a crash and confrontation in Lauderhill, authorities said.
The defense and the prosecution in the Broward County drug case against a celebrity rapper focused on the legality of a white powder that turned out to be oxycodone and not cocaine as cops suspected.
A man was shot early Friday morning after a domestic incident sparked a police chase in Plantation and ended in a crash and confrontation in Lauderhill, authorities said.
Celebrations are taking place across South Florida this month to celebrate over 50 years of reggae.
There was a high-speed chase on Wednesday in Broward County that was part of a multi-agency law enforcement team that caught a trio with a criminal history, cocaine, and weapons, records show.
The search continues for the person or persons who opened fire outside a Plantation Best Buy over the weekend, striking four people.
Police in Broward County are investigating a shooting outside a Best Buy store that sent four people to the hospital over the weekend, one of whom has since died.
Rapper Kodak Black is facing yet another criminal charge following an arrest in Plantation Wednesday on charges of possession of cocaine and tampering with physical evidence, Broward County Sheriff’s Office jail records show.
A driver who is accused of hitting and killing a tow truck driver on Florida’s Turnpike last year is now behind bars, according to the Florida Highway Patrol
A former teacher’s assistant for Broward County Public Schools is facing multiple felony charges for making threats to a number of schools the Broward Sheriff’s Office announced Thursday.
The former public works director for the city of Plantation is being accused of having city employees on the clock to do his busy work.
Rapper Kodak Black is facing yet another criminal charge following an arrest in Plantation Wednesday on charges of possession of cocaine and tampering with physical evidence, Broward County Sheriff’s Office jail records show.
The Hyatts brought Christmas joy to South Florida with their over-the-top holiday light displays at their Plantation home. But it turns out, the property wasn't actually theirs, officials are now saying.
Detectives uncovered a sordid series of chats, searches and child sexual abuse material in a Plantation woman’s online life, leading to her arrest on nearly a dozen felony charges, police allege in an arrest warrant.
A trio of armed kidnappers took a man from his Fort Lauderdale apartment at gunpoint, shoved him into a car, blindfolded him and took him to an Airbnb rented by one of the suspects, where they waterboarded him, prosecutors say.
As Israel declared war on Sunday, amid a major conflict with Hamas in the south and a Hezbollah attack in the north, synagogues in South Florida increased security.
Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony gave Local 10 News an inside look Wednesday at BSO’s Real Time Crime Center, which was designed in part to mitigate the threat of school violence.
Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested three suspects on Friday after a police pursuit that started in Pompano Beach and ended after a crash in Sunrise, according to deputies.
A student has been arrested after a teacher at South Plantation High School received a text earlier this week which included threats to kill her and other students at the school, authorities confirmed.
One person has been detained after South Plantation High School was placed on lockdown Tuesday morning after a written threat was received by a teacher, police confirmed.
