CORAL SPRINGS, FL – With Covid-19 cases going up, masks will be mandatory in Broward County Public Schools when students head back to classrooms on Aug. 18. School Board of Broward County voted unanimously on Wednesday to continue with its existing mandatory mask policy into the fall, setting up a potential confrontation with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis who has opposed requiring masks. The board cited new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance encouraging masks in schools, in...Read More

CORAL SPRINGS, FL – It was sort of Coral Springs’ version of “Shark Tank.” City officials were looking for creators, start-ups, and artists to compete for cash, prizes, and free publicity in the annual Innovate Downtown events, organized by Coral Springs Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA). But the event is now canceled due to expenses, lack of attendance, and the need for the city to focus on other events, officials said this week. “When faced with budget cuts related to the Covid-...Read More

CORAL SPRINGS, FL – The driver suspected of hitting a 10-year-old bicyclist with a truck in Coral Springs on Sunday and then driving off has been in touch with investigators, police said Tuesday. The driver, whose name was not released, has provided a statement to investigators and the driver’s silver Toyota Tacoma has been seized as evidence, police said in a statement. The boy suffered non-life-threatening injuries to his head, face, and lower body after getting struck in the 8400 blo...Read More

CORAL SPRINGS, FL – A Broward County schools electrician was flown to a hospital on Tuesday morning after getting accidentally electrocuted and injured at J.P. Taravella High School in Coral Springs. The person, whose name was not released, suffered what appeared to be non-life-threatening injuries and was alert when flown to Broward Health North, according to the school district and Coral Springs-Parkland Fire Department. Police said the man was working in a handhold - a vault or box u...Read More

CORAL SPRINGS, FL – Due to the rapid rise of Covid-19 and Delta variant cases, anyone entering a Coral Springs facility will once again be required to wear a facial covering, starting Tuesday – no matter if the person is vaccinated or not. All visitors, city employees, and contractors entering City Hall and all other city centers and offices will have to wear a mask, officials said Monday. Florida accounts for 20 percent of all Covid-19 cases in the nation, data shows. As of Friday, ...Read More

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A 60-year-old man opened fire on Palm Beach County Sheriff's deputies as they arrived to serve a domestic warrant at a home in a gated community in West Boynton. A deputy was shot in the hand and leg but is expected to recover, police said.

School Board members cited rising COVID-19 rates and new federal guidance encouraging masks in schools, even for the vaccinated,

Now open: Twin Peaks in Fort Lauderdale. Coming soon: Pascal and Cathy Bakery in Pompano Beach and Mitch’s Downtown Bagel Café in Fort Lauderdale.

Paulina Velasquez, of Deerfield Beach, was a normal, active, energetic and “perfectly healthy” 15 year old. She planned on getting the COVID-19 vaccine, but days later she got the virus. Now she’s on a ventilator and in an induced coma.

Masks will again be required at indoor county facilities in Florida’s populous Miami-Dade following new federal guidance recommending that even people vaccinated against COVID-19 should wear facial coverings indoors. Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said the decision is a response to the surge in new cases and hospitalizations.

Residents of a Coral Springs condominium were ordered to evacuate Thursday after the building was deemed unsafe and failed to complete its 40-year inspection. Tenants of the Villa Bianca Condominium, located at 3990 Woodside Drive, were told to evacuate by Aug. 5. The city is working with the Coral Springs Community Chest to provide temporary housing assistance, officials said. Currently, 15 of the 16 units are occupied, and one unit has remained uninhabitable since a fire in 2014. The Villa Bianca Condominium failed to meet the 40-year inspection, which was required in 2016, officials said in a news release. Photos that were shown to a code enforcement board showed deterioration to the roof. Villa Bianca currently has no established condominium association, as required by state law. Click here to view the notice of violation. Sign up for our Breaking newsletter to get the most urgent news stories in your inbox.

One 18-year-old died and another was injured Thursday in a shooting in a Coral Springs neighborhood, police said. Officers responded at around 5:11 p.m. to the 2300 block of 95th Avenue, where they found two female victims, according to the Coral Springs Police Department. One of the women died, and the other was taken to the hospital. Her condition was unknown. Police said both of the victims were 18 years old. It’s unclear what led up to the shooting. A suspect is in custody, but police have not released additional details. This is a developing story. Check back with NBC 6 for details.

Police body cameras show the late-night arrest of 37-year-old Nichiren Rugeles Ogando after detectives responded to “a suspicious incident.” In custody, a Coral Springs Police detective asked Rugeles Ogando about a call the department received the day before, accusing him of secretly recording his girlfriend and her two children.  According to the police report, his girlfriend told investigators she “discovered a smoke detector in her children’s bathroom,” which contained an SD card. She told them she did not install the device and did not give permission to any person to install it. The police report states the camera was placed over the toilet and shower. NBC 6 Investigators exclusively obtained video of the police interrogation of Rugeles Ogando. In the video, a detective asked him if “mom” knew anything about the camera, referring to his girlfriend. He responded no.  “She don’t know,” he said, then told the detective he put the camera up for security reasons, to make sure the children did not talk to strangers through her tablet online.   Then, the detective questioned him about the videos. Detective: “You can watch the videos on your phone right?” Rugeles Ogando: “Yes.” Detective: “Ok. And what did you see on the videos?” Rugeles Ogando: “I didn’t check it.” Detective: “You haven’t watched it?” Rugeles Ogando: No. But the detective wasn’t buying it. She brought a laptop with videos she claimed came from his phone.  “You know what I see them doing? Going to the bathroom and taking a shower,” she told Rugeles Ogando.  According to the police report, they found 12 videos of his girlfriend, 32 videos of a seven year old, and 65 videos of a 16 year old, undressing or using the bathroom.  Rugeles Ogando was charged with three counts of voyeurism. He pleaded not guilty and remains in custody. His attorney, Marlyse Mercado, declined to comment on the charges and the videos obtained by NBC 6 Investigators.  “Respectfully, no comment,” Mercado wrote in an email. After speaking with the detective for more than 40 minutes, Rugeles Ogando apologized. “Sorry for what?” the detective asked him. “For recording them,” he responded.  “What do you think they’re thinking about you right now?” she later asked.  “They are really mad right now. I’m pretty sure they are really, really mad for me,” he said.“ You violated their privacy,” the detective told him.   Hidden Cameras: Smaller and Harder to Spot  Evan Tannenbaum from Spy Spot Investigations told NBC 6 smoke detector cameras are among the most popular hidden camera products along with clocks and wall plug chargers.  “Cameras are so small nowadays. They’re in anything,” Tannenbaum said.  He said most cameras today send video to your phone using Bluetooth or Wi-Fi so a detector is able to spot them. Tannenbaum said hidden cameras and products to find them have become more common with the rise of short-term rentals because people want to know what’s going on in their property and visitors want to know if they’re being watched. The legal line, Tannenbaum said, is when someone would have a reasonable expectation of privacy. So cameras in a bathroom? “Yeah, that would be illegal at that point,” he said. “If they are unaware that there’s cameras in the home, and it’s in the bathroom – that would be an invasion of privacy,” he said.  Florida law does allow you to record video on your property or in a public place where there is no expectation of privacy.As for audio, Florida is a two-party consent state, which means most times both parties have to agree to be recorded.

After a long hiatus, Laura Wilkinson is hoping for a comeback. The Olympic diver is coming out of a 9-year retirement with her sights set on the Tokyo Olympics. “Maybe it’s just the Olympian in me and I’ve done so many Olympics. I definitely want to be on that Olympic team. I’d love to stand on the podium,” said Wilkinson. “For me, if you’re not going for the biggest goal, it’s just not worth it.” Wilkinson knows what it feels like being at the top. You may remember her name when the 43-year-old made history at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney. She became the first American woman since 1964 to win a gold medal in platform diving and she won while competing with three broken bones in her foot. “It’s very encouraging to me to look back and say, okay if I did that through that issue anything is possible at this point,” said Wilkinson. The decorated athlete beat that obstacle then, but now she’s faced some new bumps on the road to her current Olympic dream. The pandemic delayed the Olympics and in 2018, she underwent a complicated surgery. “I had to have a two level surgical fusion in my neck so I took a year coming back from that. So it’s been a very up and down road and then I came back and then COVID hit so here we are trying to get back into it,” said Wilkinson. Through it all, she’s managed to find some balance in all the uncertainty. “I thought oh I’m gonna have this whole extra year, it’s gonna be amazing and I’ll be fully recovered and feel great but then we haven’t had access to training facilities like we used to. It’s been an equally hard struggle, but at the same time, physically I do feel better, mentally I do feel better so I think it has been a gift,” said Wilkinson. Despite all those hurdles, Wilkinson says she is diving right in, focused on competing in Japan this summer. “I love chasing after big hard things and sometimes you reach it and sometimes you don’t, but it’s worth the chase, because it makes you into this better person and better athlete,” said Wilkinson. The mother of four even got her kids into the mix when she was struck training at home during COVID lockdowns. “They started becoming part of my workouts and doing everything with me and it was so much fun. Then they got to actually see what I did and see how much work goes into if you have this big goal, you have to put in the effort,” said Wilkinson. And she’s hoping to inspire other moms out there. “You don’t have to hang up your dreams or the big things you want to do. Bring your family along with you. They’re gonna learn so much by following you in that process,” said the athlete. Wilkinson was in South Florida this weekend competing at the Coral Springs Winter Invitational and is a strong contender to make the Olympic team. Next she is hoping to mount the 10 meter platform and the podium again to break Dara Torres’ record as the oldest American to win a gold medal at the Olympics. “I never thought as a 43-year-old mom of four that I would be diving platform again, but I just love it and it just fills me up inside,” said Wilkinson. “To be able to do it again is kind of the reward in and of itself.”

Surveillance video caught a South Florida man having a heart attack and collapsing inside a hospital and staff quickly coming to his aide.  Igor Molina did not know what was happening when all of a sudden he collapsed and passed out in the lobby of Broward Health Coral Springs.  He said things started to go wrong the morning of Jan. 29.  “After I ate my breakfast, I started not to feel good,” he said.  Molina said that’s when he started to feel pain in his chest and shoulders.  “I said, that is not normal,” he recalled. “I said, I’m going to the hospital.” He drove himself to the hospital, which is about four minutes from his home.  He didn’t know at the time that he was having a heart attack. Moments after he fell to the ground inside the lobby, nurses surrounded him.  “It just so happen that that gentleman made it just in the nick of time into our premises,” said Dr. Gary Lai, Chief of Emergency Medicine at Broward Health Coral Springs.  Dr. Lai said in those moments, every second counts.  “We had him as a matter of minutes go into the cath lab, where he was able to have his occluded artery opened up and from there, it salvaged his heart,” he said.  Dr. Lai said the hospital’s cardiac cath lab had just gone live days before and Molina was their first patient.  Pointing out that that also played a role in saving Molina’s life.  “Thank God for the good job in the hospital, I am feeling better every day,” Molina said.  Molina said now he eats healthy food and exercises every day.