{"id":299138,"date":"2026-06-07T12:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T12:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/299138\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T12:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T12:58:10","slug":"catch-up-on-coral-springs-news-travel-crime-and-jackpots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/299138\/","title":{"rendered":"Catch up on Coral Springs news: travel, crime and jackpots"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"JetBlue<\/p>\n

JetBlue plans to launch a nonstop flight from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport to Caracas, Venezuela, pending government approval.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Courtesy: Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport<\/p>\n

Three recent stories about Coral Springs and Broward County covered several topics, including expanded air travel to Venezuela out of Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, a decades-old cold case identification and a streak of lottery jackpots.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a rundown to catch up:<\/p>\n

JetBlue introducing historic nonstop route from South Florida to Venezuela<\/p>\n

JetBlue plans to launch a nonstop Fort Lauderdale-to-Caracas route this year, pending government approval. It would restore a direct option that\u2019s been missing since U.S.-Venezuela flights were suspended in 2019 and expand JetBlue\u2019s presence at FLL.<\/p>\n

SEE FULL STORY<\/a><\/p>\n

Man\u2019s body was found 50 years ago in a Broward County field. Now, he\u2019s been ID\u2019d<\/p>\n

Investigators say a body found in a Lauderhill field in 1975 has been identified as Robert Russell Freese, an 18-year-old from Long Island, using fingerprint records tied to an arrest. The Broward Sheriff\u2019s Office is asking the public for tips to help solve the case.<\/p>\n

SEE FULL STORY<\/a><\/p>\n

Broward\u2019s lottery luck: Six tickets produce jackpot prizes within 3-week stretch<\/p>\n

Six Fantasy 5 tickets sold around Broward County in May hit jackpot prizes ranging from $13,000 to $127,000, with wins spread across cities including Coral Springs and Lauderhill. The winners beat 1 in 376,992 odds of matching all five numbers.<\/p>\n

SEE FULL STORY<\/a><\/p>\n

This report was produced with the assistance of a proprietary tool powered by artificial intelligence and using our own originally reported, written and published content. It was reviewed and edited by our journalists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JetBlue plans to launch a nonstop flight from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport to Caracas, Venezuela, pending government approval.\u00a0…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-299138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}