Mike Alger: A Drier Week Begins

If you’ve ever wanted to tuck into a signature dish from celebrity chefs Emeril Lagasse and Lorena Garcia, Fort Lauderdale chef Paula DaSilva is going to make it happen.  DaSilva is bringing her popular summer culinary series Paula’s Food Diaries back to Burlock Coast Seafare & Spirits, with a June menu feature based on a favorite recipe from Lagasse, followed in July by a dish from Garcia.

The moment a generation of college football video game fans have been waiting for is approaching. EA Sports released the first gameplay trailer for its upcoming video game, EA Sports College Football 25, on YouTube on Friday morning. It is the first college football video game in over a decade, and the Hurricanes made a brief appearance in the trailer. The trailer, which is just under two minutes long, includes a glimpse of Miami players celebrating.

MIAMI — It has been an ongoing story for years for the Miami Heat, their lack of size. It was a story in last year’s NBA Finals, and again a story in his past season’s demise. But the greater story for the Miami Heat, or the greater reality, has been a lack of functional size. Because size again was in place in the just-concluded season .

MIAMI — The “Skittles Man” — nicknamed for his huge supply of rainbow-colored fentanyl pills — is one of seven members and associates of the notorious Sinaloa Cartel sent to prison in recent months by a federal judge in South Florida. The Skittles Man, whose real name is Roque Bustamante, supplied thousands of deadly Mexican-made fentanyl pills to Hector Apodaca-Alvarez, according to federal authorities.

(JTA) Karen Frostig stood on a grassy patch of land near the Daugava River outside Riga in 2007 searching for a sign, a plaque, any marker acknowledging the thousands of Jews whom the Nazis murdered in and around the adjacent woods of towering fir trees over 60 years earlier, including her Austrian grandparents.

TALLAHASSEE — Florida education officials have told a private Muslim school in Northeast Miami-Dade to turn over a roster of all its owners, operators and employees or risk losing its taxpayer-funded vouchers after a prayer leader at the mosque where the school is located made inflammatory comments about Jewish people. The Florida Department of Education on Thursday told Reviver Academy that it has a week to explain its relationship with Fadi Kablawi, an imam at the Golden Glades mosque who in a religious ceremony last month referred to Israeli soldiers as “worse than the Nazis.” His remarks, some of which were made in Arabic, were posted online by the Middle East Media Research Institute, whose translation included Kablawi characterizing Jews as “apes and pigs” and praying to “annihilate” them. “In Florida, we will not tolerate calls for genocide,” Cathy Russell, the deputy executive director of the office that oversees the state’s school choice program, wrote in a letter to the school. For the full story, please visit miamiherald.com