Comment on Today in History, February 16: Battle of Fort Donelson ends with surrender to Union forces

You expect questions with any draft pick in any year. You just don’t want this question with the Miami Dolphins top picks this year: Can they help much this coming season? You see the speed of first-round pick Chop Robinson. You see the size of second-round pick Patrick Paul. You don’t doubt each can create good NFL careers for themselves. But can they realistically impact much this season? There’s a salary-cap tsunami coming at this team for its recent ways.

A pedestrian was killed after being hit by a Broward Sheriff’s Office deputy in Pompano Beach Saturday morning, officials say. Detectives with the Sheriff’s Office are now investigating the crash. About 5:30 a.m., BSO Pompano Beach District deputies and Pompano Beach Fire Rescue responded to the crash near the 1500 block of Martin Luther King Boulevard, according to a media release.

The list of potential schools in Broward County that could face closure has gotten smaller, with most concentrated in the southern half of the county. At least five schools are expected to be recommended to the School Board on June 18 for closure or an overhaul during the 2025-26 school year.

Dear Amy: My brother and I are both in our 70s. We’ve only spoken once in the last three years. We lived miles apart for much of our lives, but still kept in touch. After our father passed, our mother sold their home. My father had previously told my brother that when they sold the house, he wanted to give a certain amount of money to each of us. Our mother did not honor our father’s wishes, but did give us each a smaller amount.

UCF continues to master the transfer portal after Friday night’s announcement of a commitment from USC transfer defensive back Tre’Quon Fegans. The 6-foot, 180-pound Fegans is a 4-star from Thompson (Ala.) High School, spending last season at USC. He appeared in six games for the Trojans, primarily as a backup and on special teams, totaling 9 tackles. Fegans first played his high school at Oxford before transferring to Thompson, where he recorded 45 tackles, 5 tackles for loss, 4 interceptions, and 12 passes defended his senior year for the Warriors. He was highly sought after, with offers from Miami, Auburn, Florida, Florida State, Georgia and UCF.

Florida’s past and present came together Friday in an ideal setting: the historic Old Capitol in Tallahassee. Bob Graham, the former two-term governor and three-term senator who died April 16 at age 87, lay in state on the second floor of the old building where he began his career as a 30-year-old state legislator from Miami Lakes in 1966. Hundreds of people waited patiently in line for more than an hour and then climbed the steep, century-old stairs to walk past Graham’s casket and express condolences to his widow, Adele, who sat nearby in a wingback chair as a quartet played light classical music downstairs. For a few hours, there was an abundance of history in that historic Capitol, and no one had a greater appreciation for Florida history than Graham himself. Mike Stocker/Sun SentinelSteve Bousquet, Sun Sentinel editor and columnist. On a sunny, cloudless day, citizens from all walks of life stood side-by-side with the political operators who worked for Graham or with him. They recalled Graham’s essential decency and his love of Florida, even as they dredged up memories of decades-old political battles. Some recalled the landmark Florida Supreme Court case of Brown v.