Florida’s Turnpike

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With $31.5M Land Buy, IKEA One Step Closer To Miami Store

An IKEA megastore will be built next to Dolphin Mall in Sweetwater, and the company just took a big step forward toward its opening with a $31.5 million purchase of the land.

CBS4–2012/11/19

(Source: Florida DOT/Chad Huff) A view of the new Pompano Beach Service Plaza on the Florida Turnpike

FL Turnpike Plazas To Get $162 Million Makeover

Florida’s eight turnpike service plazas are getting a much needed makeover.

CBS4–2012/07/30

Hit & Run Driver Sought After Deadly Turnpike Crash

The Florida Highway Patrol is looking for a car that fled the scene of a deadly crash on the turnpike late Friday night.

CBS4–2012/06/23

FBI Names David Edwin Bradley As Turnpike Shooter

The FBI named David Edwin Bradley, 23, of Miami Gardens, Florida as the man who carjacked two cars, robbed a Broward barber shop, and then shot two law enforcement officers on the Florida Turnpike Thursday evening.

CBS4–2012/05/11

Turnpike Shooter Caught On Camera In Barbershop Robbery

Customers inside a Pembroke Pines barber shop were terrified when a man burst in Thursday and robbed the place at gunpoint. Little did they know he’d end up shooting two South Florida law enforcement officers in the middle of the Florida Turnpike before turning the gun on himself.

CBS4–2012/05/11

The north and southbound lanes of the Turnpike came to a stop Thursday afternoon after reports that a police officer was shot. (CBS4)

2 Officers Shot On Turnpike, Suspect Dead

Two law enforcement officers were shot at the height of rush hour Thursday afternoon, and a suspect lay dead on the pavement, after what started as a carjacking in Miami-Dade County ended on the Turnpike in Hollywood in a blaze of gunfire. Police said the wounds sustained by both officers are not life threatening.

CBS4–2012/05/10