When the disease now known as HIV/AIDS was first uncovered in the 1980s, public health officials and medical professionals began to send messages around the world for people to protect themselves.  In those first years, many people believed AIDS was a gay men’s disease.  What we’ve found, instead, is that HIV/AIDS does not discriminate. The disease has spread rapidly, infecting and killing people worldwide who are of all races and sexual orientations.

25 years after the discovery of wha...

Broward Sheriff Al Lamberti told the Pompano BeachCity Commission at a recent meeting that he disagreed with a study that stated the city could save millions if it dropped the Broward Sheriff's Office and instituted its own police department.

"We think it's flawed and inconsistent," Lamberti said.

Facing a projected budget shortfall and increased concerns among residents, Pompano hired Willdan Homeland Solutions for $80,000 to study its police services.

When the findings were made public in Ju...