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We see them in uniform and on the job, but we don’t always know much about the police officers who serve and protect our community. Life spoke to three Coconut Creek police officers to learn more about their off-duty pursuits. Cake for Life Michael Leonard started out in the state attorney’s office reading police reports.

How one woman’s breast cancer journey ultimately saved her family Breast cancer. It’s incredible how two words can change and save so many lives in an instant. I never thought I had to worry about it. I didn’t have a family history of cancer, so when I noticed a lump on my left breast three

What you need to know about water collection According to Broward County data, water used on our landscapes accounts for half of our household water usage. While a lot of good information about Florida-friendly landscaping and picking the proper plants to minimize irrigation requirements is available on the city’s website (coconutcreek.net), there’s another way to

Doug Mox’s team of Parkland All-Stars were on the verge of making local Little League baseball history. Still, he didn’t let the pressure keep his squad of 12- and 13-year-olds from having some fun 3,000 miles away from home. However, not every coach at the Little League Intermediate World Series, held this August in Livermore,

Little about the childhood of Florida Panthers right winger Reilly Smith runs contrary to the stereotype of a Canadian family with three boys. Yes, they were all in skates shortly after bidding adieu to diapers. And, yes, they lived and breathed hockey—but, as the youngest brother, Smith at least had options when it came to

The Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show often is called South Florida’s Super Bowl of boating. Perhaps it has gained this reputation over the years because, show producers say, it makes more of an economic impact than pro football’s annual championship game. Last year, the boat show generated an estimated $531.5 million for the local economy.

In May 2015, theatergoers could hardly visit a South Florida stage without seeing a production tied to Michael McKeever. In mid-May, the theater company he co-founded, Zoetic Stage, opened Harold Pinter’s “Betrayal” at the Adrienne Arsht Center in Miami, which, with a set designed by McKeever, became the best-selling play in the company’s history. The

The lowdown: If the 250-footer isn’t impressive enough for the superyacht set, how about the ability to go 1,650 feet below the surface? Triton Submarines in Vero Beach is one of the country’s leading manufacturers of personal submersibles, especially ones designed exclusively for “yacht-based deployment.” The details: Triton has introduced its 1650/3 LP, billed as

It’s competition time for Stoneman Douglas Eagle Regiment marching band Marching bands have come a long way from being halftime entertainment during high school football games. Today’s band members are “musical athletes,” says Alex Kaminsky, director of the award-winning Eagle Regiment competitive marching band at Stoneman Douglas High. Drive by the school around 5 p.m.

  This Thanksgiving, Michelle Rohloff will be thankful for more than her family and friends. She’ll also be raising a glass in celebration of her life. The holiday will fall on Nov. 24, the day she found out she had breast cancer two years ago. “I literally stopped right where I was,” Rohloff says, recalling

  Ed and Crissi Boland had been, as they put it, “up to their eyeballs in superheroes.” Their children—Charlie, 8, and Jamie, 6—like most boys their age, had lived and breathed the comic book characters who could leap tall buildings in a single bound. But the Bolands, especially Crissi, didn’t feel good about the supposed

Assistant executive director, Greater Miami Youth Symphony 1 Music was a part of your life since childhood. When did you know you wanted to teach? I’ve always been a teacher in some regard. When I started playing at school, once I got to sixth grade, we were helping the fifth-graders. When I was in high school,