Mayor Michelle Wu, Police Commissioner Cox agreed on tent removal ahead of Emerson arrests Students had set up tents to protest Israel’s actions in the conflict in Gaza and call for a cease-fire there. 04/26/2024 - 8:40 am | View Link
Mayor Wu backs Boston police in wake of mass arrests near Emerson College M ayor Michelle Wu defended Boston police’s handling of a pro-Palestinian demonstration near Emerson College that culminated early Thursday morning with mass arrests and the breakup of a tent ... 04/25/2024 - 1:33 pm | View Link
Mayor Michelle Wu supports Boston police after Emerson College encampment arrests Boston Mayor Michelle Wu is reacting after more than 100 people were arrested and four police officers were injured early Thursday when protesters clashed with Boston police as a pro-Palestinian ... 04/25/2024 - 9:49 am | View Link
Debate over TE value hovers over Bowers' draft prospects Evaluating Brock Bowers the player is a fairly straightforward assignment. As he showed in three seasons at Georgia, Bowers is a dynamic receiver with the ability to create separation, make contested ... 04/19/2024 - 10:22 am | View Link
Atlanta police issue ‘public safety alert’ after Iran attacks on Israel While there are no credible threats to Atlanta or its houses of worship, the police department has issued a public safety alert following Iran’s attack on Israel, letting ... 04/15/2024 - 3:22 am | View Link
Local entrepreneurs have a message for Fort Lauderdale: The city’s homeless crisis is bad for business — and getting worse.
The complaints take on a new urgency in light of a new state law that bans homeless people from sleeping in public. The new law, which goes into effect in October, also paves the way for critics to file lawsuits against local governments starting next year if they fail to enforce the ban.
Bernie Bedor, a business owner in northern Fort Lauderdale, says he has sent email after email to City Hall, begging Fort Lauderdale officials to do something about the city’s ongoing homeless problem.
“We take investors down to the beach and they see homeless people in tents,” Bedor told the South Florida Sun Sentinel.
How badly does state-owned Citizens Property Insurance Corp. want to depopulate?
So badly that in addition to participating with private-market insurers in a “takeout” program, the residual insurer is trying to remove customers out of policies that haven’t even begun.
And it’s doing so with confusing letters and questionable premium estimates that ensure the policyholder must take the private-market offer — at least for now.
State officials make no secret of the fact they don’t want Citizens Property Insurance Corp.
Q: In Saturday’s first quarter, the Heat missed shots, but the Celtics knew exactly what they Heat were trying to do. No one on the Heat was a trigger, with the Heat players making excessive passes and forcing the action to get the ball in the hands of Tyler Herro to set up the offense, even if it wasn’t there.
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From hospitals to doctors’ offices, the frantic questions women are asking about the new abortion law
Trump meets DeSantis in Miami seeking to tap ex-rival’s donor connections
A Florida sheriff says 10 people were wounded by gunfire after a fight broke out at a party venue
California Disney characters are unionizing decades after Florida peers.
By OLEG CETINIC (Associated Press)
PARIS (AP) — French media are reporting that actor Gérard Depardieu is in police custody for questioning about allegations made by two women that he sexually assaulted them on movie sets.
Broadcaster BFMTV and the daily Le Parisien reported that the 75-year-old actor was summoned Monday morning by Paris police and placed in custody.
The Paris police force said it wasn’t authorized to comment and directed questions to the Paris prosecutor’s office.
By JOSEF FEDERMAN and SAMY MAGDY (Associated Press)
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli officials appeared increasingly concerned that the International Criminal Court may issue arrest warrants against the country’s leaders, as international pressure mounts over the war in Gaza. Airstrikes overnight into Monday killed 25 people in a southern city, according to hospital records.
The deaths in Rafah included nine women and five children, one of whom was just 5 days old, according to the records and an Associated Press reporter.