By Karla Bowsher
BrowardBulldog.org
A deadly mix of pilot error and an air traffic controller’s negligence has led a federal judge to order the United States to pay $4.4 million to the family of a wealthy Boca Raton businessman who crashed his private plane in bad weather six years ago.

By Amber Statler-Matthews
BrowardBulldog.org
Harlan Ginsberg of Coral Springs was rushed to Margate’s Northwest Medical Center in 2006 after a kidney stone attack. During surgery to remove the stone, he says, a doctor mistakenly cut a tube that delivered urine to his bladder and removed a kidney that another doctor testified was healthy.

By William Gjebre
BrowardBulldog.org
Two public school activists say they lost their appointments to the Broward School Board’s Diversity Committee as payback for bringing attention to rundown conditions at Hallandale Beach High School.

By Dan Christensen
BrowardBulldog.org
There is no justice for Marion Green and others victimized by stock broker and swindler Gary J. Gross.
He fleeced dozens of his clients from across South Florida, many he worshiped with at a Boca Raton synagogue. Their total losses were as much as $20 million. Federal arbitrators ruled Gross should pay three-dozen of his victims $7.5 million. Other big awards were imposed, too, but so far no one has seen a dime.

By Karla Bowsher
BrowardBulldog.org
A substance abuse treatment center has filed a federal discrimination lawsuit against Deerfield Beach alleging the city illegally blocked its plans to expand after neighbors complained.

By William Gjebre
BrowardBulldog.org
Hallandale Beach city commissioners have tightened oversight on property acquisitions by its controversial redevelopment agency, and reduced the power of agency officials to unilaterally buy land.

By Dan Christensen
BrowardBulldog.org
In September, news about a previously unknown FBI investigation that found ties between 9/11 hijackers and a Saudi family living near Sarasota led the FBI to deny there was any connection and assert that it made all of its files available to congressional investigators a decade ago.

By William Gjebre
BrowardBulldog.org
Thousands of drivers ticketed under Hallandale Beach’s controversial red light camera program are eligible to receive small refunds as part of a lawsuit settlement that lets the city keep most of the $1.2 million in disputed fines it collected.

By Dan Christensen
BrowardBulldog.org
UPDATE: Dec. 16 – Five current and former Deerfield Beach commissioners have been cleared of accusations that they broke state conflict of interest and gift disclosure laws.

By William Gjebre
BrowardBulldog.org
Hallandale Beach officials are vying to add another big ticket property to the city’s controversial land bank: a 9.1 acre U.S. Postal Service complex next to city hall at a cost of about $9 million.