Oakland Park

The SmartCart can detect if objects or remains are underground. (CBS4)

Exclusive: Broward Sheriff’s Office Using New Tool To Solve Crimes

Inside an unused Oakland Park golf course evidence markers flapped in the breeze and a tape measure roped off a 20 x 20 stretch of land. Crime scene investigators gathered nearby studying the layout.

CBS4–2013/05/01

U.S. President Barack Obama tries the bicycle-powered emergency water-sanitation station, created by high schoolers Payton Karr and Kiona Elliot from Oakland Park, Florida in the East Garden of the White House, during the White House Science Fair April 22, 2013 in Washington, DC. The White House Science Fair celebrates the student winners of a broad range of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) competitions from across the country. The first White House Science Fair was held in late 2010. (Photo by Aude Guerrucci-Pool/Getty Images)

President Obama Tests Filtration Invention Designed By Oakland Park Students

Pedal power took a pair of high school students from Oakland Park to the White House and earned them praise from the President.

CBS4–2013/04/22

Oakland Park Girl In Intensive Care After Seven Story Fall

A five year old girl who survived a seven story fall from a condo building remains in intensive care at Broward Health Medical Center.

CBS4–2013/04/07

Nine Broward Cities Holding Municipal Elections Tuesday

It’s Election Day in a number of Broward County cities as they hold municipal elections on Tuesday.

CBS4–2013/03/12

Voting machines in Florida (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Nine Broward Cities Holding Municipal Elections Tuesday

A number of Broward County cities will be holding municipal elections on Tuesday, March 12th.

CBS4–2013/03/11

Forty-five year old Detective John Brindle was arrested Friday night for possession of oxycodone pills without a prescription. (Source: Broward Sheriff's Office)

Broward Sheriff Detective Arrested For Possession Of Oxycodone

A Broward Sheriff’s detective lands a big drug bust, but this time he is the one that ends up in the slammer.

CBS Miami–2013/01/27

Oakland Park Business Robbed For Second Time In 7 Months

The owners of a family business in Oakland Park are offering a reward of five thousand dollars for the return of their expensive landscaping equipment.

CBS4–2012/11/19

An Oakland Park man plans to auction off decades worth of signed memorabilia to help pay for his daughter's Lupus medical bills. (CBS4)

Father To Sell Massive Memorabilia Collection To Help Daughter

An Oakland Park father is putting his massive memorabilia collection on the auction block to raise money for his daughter who suffers from a rate disease that makes her bones dangerously brittle and causes her body’s defenses to attack her blood vessels.

CBS4–2012/10/24

Suspect wanted for as many as three drive-thru fast food restaurant robberies on Friday, Sept. 21, 2012. (Source: Sunrise PD)

Drive-Thru Restaurant Robbers Go On Broward Crime Spree

Police in Broward County are searching for some drive-thru restaurant robbers who went on a crime spree early Friday and struck three fast food restaurants in the span of just a couple of hours.

CBS4–2012/09/21