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        The Broward Continuum of Care Homeless Count Committee, comprised of nonprofit social service agencies, faith-based organizations and government agencies within Broward County, is poised to begin the 2012 Sheltered Homeless Point-In-Time Count on Friday, January 27. According to Michael ...

  Bailee Madison, left, shakes hands with Kalil Davis, 10, of Fort Lauderdale during an Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation event at the BLUEDOG School of Acting for Kids in Plantation. (Eric Bojanowski, FPG / January 7, 2012)   Life gave some kids lemons, and Bailee Madison is making lemonade. Whil...

Sunrise offers $2,000 incentive to new homebuyers Sunrise will reimburse 100 homebuyers up to $2,000 for improvements made to a newly purchased home, including landscaping, replacing a roof, painting the exterior of the house and installing energy-efficient appliances. Sunrise Mayor Mike Ryan say...

      Sometimes, playing both football and soccer can be very advantageous. Cameron McDuffy, a member of the Cooper City Cobras travel soccer program and the Pembroke Pines Optimist Bengals football organization, used what he has learned in both sports to help win two championships in South Flori...

Coconut Creek is the latest municipality to join nine other Broward County cities in offering a prescription discount program to its residents. Starting Jan. 29, locals will be able to go to one of three locations in the city and ask for the prescription discount card, which is designed to help c...

Sisters are a triple threat on the court   SISTER ACT The Battle sisters have been instrumental in leading the Forest Glen Middle School girls' basketball team this season. From left, Tyesha, 11, Kanesha, 14, and Brianna, 12. As it stands, the team is undefeated (10-0) with the playoffs starting ...

Coral Springs has put on hold an ordinance that was introduced at the height of the housing boom to ensure the city was home to families of varying incomes. Officials voted to impose a year-long moratorium on the city's affordable housing ordinance. Staff plan to use the time to review the city's...

    Like tens of thousands of other Florida homeowners, imprisoned former football star O.J. Simpson is in danger of losing his house to foreclosure. Miami-Dade Circuit Court records show that JPMorgan Chase filed for foreclosure in September on the four-bedroom, four-bath house south of downtown...

The housing markets in most of these cities missed the bubble and bust altogether, and home prices continued to climb steadily after the national market went bust. These cities have diversified their economies, enjoy rising population and job growth, and have relatively low rates of unemployment ...

      Locals refer to it as the Cave House and the nickname is apt. Sitting on 37 acres just outside of Bisbee, AZ, a mining town-turned-Baby Boomer retirement haven about 80 miles from Tucson, the Chulo Canyon Cave House is carved into an outcropping of granite boulder, extending more than 2,000...