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A Broward mechanic installed a counterfeit airbag into a totaled Chevy Malibu that was later repaired, sold and involved in a crash that killed its driver, according to a lawsuit filed this week in the Broward Circuit Court. Haim Levy, owner of Jumbo Automotive on North 21st Avenue in Hollywood, is among several business owners and companies named in the lawsuit filed by the family of Destiny Marie Byassee, 22, who died in a June 2023 crash. “Because the subject Chevy Malibu’s front driver-side airbag system included counterfeit and non-compliant components, the airbag detonated like a grenade and shot metal and plastic shrapnel throughout the vehicle cabin,” the lawsuit states. Byassee’s family is being represented by the Morgan & Morgan law firm. According to the suit, the 2020 Malibu was originally owned by Enterprise Rent-a-Car.

Joe Schnessel sits at a drum kit in a back room of the Sam Ash store in Margate, keeping time with a familiar classic rock song before he’s paged to take a phone call from a customer inquiring about the company’s ongoing liquidation sale. He explains to the caller that the 5% discount on drum and accessories — the opening offer in what figures to be a three-month-long wind down — was just increased to a 10% discount the day before. He says he knows it’s not a big discount but tells the customer that he might want to come into the store and check out the selection. Drum salesman Joe Schnessel plays the drums in between customers at the Sam Ash Margate store on Friday, May 17, 2024.

A few former Florida governors cared no more for open government than Ron DeSantis does, but he’s the first one to claim an “executive privilege” to conceal public records that the Constitution and the laws say he should disclose. The pure audacity at work here is the issue in an enormously consequential case, J.

As Broward gets ready to debate the expansion of a privately-owned landfill, it has already made plans to grow its own — and some residents could pay for the increased demand. A 20-acre expansion is planned for the Broward County landfill on unincorporated land off U. S. 27 and Sheridan Street near Pembroke Pines. (Amy Beth Bennett / South Florida Sun Sentinel)Vehicles wait to enter the Broward County Landfill in Southwest Ranches on May 16.

Q: Bam Adebayo is the future. Make that your priority. Superstars want to play with him. How many more superstars need to come out and say I’d love to play in Miami with Bam? This doesn’t happen every year with players, but it does in Bam’s case. – Douglas. A: A point well made, in light of the respect Bam Adebayo has cultivated from Damian Lillard and Donovan Mitchell.

By Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES — In November 2017, days after her daughter Mallory Smith died from a drug-resistant infection at the age of 25, Diane Shader Smith typed a password into Mallory’s laptop. Her daughter gave it to her before undergoing double-lung transplant surgery, with instructions to share any writing that could help others if she didn’t survive. The transplant was successful, but Burkholderia cepacia — an antibiotic-resistant bacterial strain that first colonized her system when she was 12 — took hold.