CORAL SPRINGS, FL — The Florida Department of Health in Broward County is investigating a presumptive case of monkeypox in the county.

Monkeypox is a rare disease that falls under the same umbrella as smallpox, and is usually less severe, as it does not swell the lymph nodes.

Symptoms of monkeypox include fever, muscle aches and exhaustion. In Africa, the death rate is one in ...

CORAL SPRINGS, FL – Coral Springs has started the process to donate city-owned properties appraised at $823,000 to a nonprofit housing organization to build affordable townhomes.

City commissioners this week approved moving forward with the initial steps of turning over four “surplus” properties on Riverside Drive just north of Sample Road to Habitat For Humanity of Broward ...

CORAL SPRINGS, FL – Elizabeth Carmona was caring for a baby boy in her Coral Springs apartment on Friday afternoon when a 35-year-old man allegedly came in and killed them, investigators said this week.

Coral Springs police didn’t say what they suspect prompted Dale Spidle to use “blunt force” to kill Carmona, 61, and the baby, who was about 10 months old, at Ramblewood ...

CORAL SPRINGS, FL – He makes her lunch. And she designs his pants.

For 12 years, Jessica and Scott Goodman have worked next door to each other as teachers at J.P. Taravella High School in Coral Springs.

Jessica, 44, teaches fashion and design while Scott, 42, teaches culinary in a part of the school where trades are taught to hundreds of students each year.

Husband and wife ...

CORAL SPRINGS, FL – There’s a major growth spurt expected at the Coral Springs Community Garden and Food Forest, but organizers say it’s going to need support at the city level to become a reality.

A place where local residents grow herbs, vegetables, and other crops for families and food banks, the 13-year-old garden next to Dr. Steven G. Paul Dog Park at 2915 Sportsplex ...

CORAL SPRINGS, FL — Last Friday, many restaurants were without gas for hours, unable to cook, after construction crews damaged a gas line on Wiles Road and forced temporary shutdown of gas flow to nearby businesses and homes.

It was at least the fourth time in recent months that crews caused a gas leak on Wiles Road -- the third time in the construction zone from Riverside Drive to ...

CORAL SPRINGS, FL – For years, while whizzing by on the Sawgrass Expressway, Randy Braunstein observed a 20-foot-tall bamboo statue of a wading bird standing at the entrance to the Sawgrass Trailhead at the end of West Atlantic Boulevard in Coral Springs. 

Then a few weeks ago, the Coral Springs resident spotted the piece on the ground, some 10 feet away from its base.

“I ...

CORAL SPRINGS, FL – Following the school shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas on Tuesday, Coral Springs Police Chief Clyde Parry said some schools in Coral Springs may have a higher police presence on Wednesday because it will be National Bike to School Day.

“Please don’t mistake this for a school safety issue,” Parry wrote on social media. “As ...

CORAL SPRINGS, FL - Downhome cooking. Soul Food. You’ve heard those terms before, but in all honesty, when have you had food like that, in South Florida, recently? I’m talking about the food of the South, the food of the black experience in the United States. 

Where do you even find stuff like that? You frequently get it in cities like Atlanta and New Orleans, where it’s ...

CORAL SPRINGS — Gas prices keep going up: The average price of a gallon of unleaded in Florida went up 6 cents on Tuesday to an average of $4.53 a gallon.

And, according to AAA, prices are expected to go up even more after a brief price dip over the past few days.

Gas is 43 cents higher compared to last month and the price has increased $1.66 since this time last year.

Many drivers ...

CORAL SPRINGS, FL – Not afraid to get roughed up on the ice, a Coral Springs teen has dreamed of playing hockey professionally or in the Olympics since she was a young girl.

In a sport dominated by boys and men, Kalyssa Bayne set her ambitions high after meeting the women’s Olympic hockey team during a training in Tampa four years ago.

Since then, the 15-year-old developed the ...

CORAL SPRINGS, FL – When he was 12 years old, Ken Cutler learned something that would shape the rest of his life.

As he prepared for his bar mitzvah, the future Coral Springs attorney and Parkland resident wanted to know why so many family members were coming from his father’s side but very few from his mother’s side, none of whom were from her father’s part ...

CORAL SPRINGS, FL – A Coral Springs teen performer has been dancing and singing her way through much of South Florida in recent years, gaining admission into the prestigious Interlochen Center for the Arts next year.

Jasmine Iacullo, star of Next Stop Broadway’s recent production of ‘RENT’ at Coral Springs Center for the Arts, also has been in Slow Burn Theatre ...