Nearly half of Fort Lauderdale’s water quality testing sites fail to meet clean water standards on most days, according to an annual report released on Tuesday by Miami Waterkeeper. It’s not all doom and gloom, however, some sites are almost always clean.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Renters in South Florida need to make over $100,000 in order to rent comfortably in the tri-county area, according to a new study.
In order to avoid paying more than 30% of their income toward rent, the average household would need to make at least a yearly income of $112,183 to afford the typical rent in South Florida, the study conducted by researchers at Florida Atlantic University, Florida Gulf Coast University and University of Alabama revealed.
Dear Amy: I am an older woman, retired after a long career as a counselor.
I am the oldest of five siblings. My sister is one year younger.
She is very talented, creative and generous.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS (AP Business Writer)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal safety regulators are urging consumers to stop using baby pillows that have been linked to 10 infant deaths but are still being sold on Facebook Marketplace, despite being recalled two years ago.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
By CURT ANDERSON and FREIDA FRISARO (Associated Press)
OCALA, Fla. (AP) — Authorities came under pressure Tuesday to arrest and charge a white woman who fired through her front her door and killed a Black neighbor in a case that has put Florida’s divisive stand your ground law back into the spotlight.
By DOUG FERGUSON (AP Golf Writer)
The PGA Tour ended its expensive fight with Saudi Arabia’s golf venture and now is joining forces with it, making a stunning announcement Tuesday of a merger that creates a commercial operation with the Public Investment Fund and the European tour.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
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June is Pride Month, a celebration of LGBTQIA+ pride and commemoration of the history of the fight for gay rights. Pride Month was started after the 1969 Stonewall riots sparked a series of gay liberation protests, and unfortunately, more than 50 years later, Pride Month has taken on a new resonance as the civil rights of queer and transgender people are being rolled back at an alarming rate in the United States.
By VASILISA STEPANENKO and SUSIE BLANN (Associated Press)
KHERSON, Ukraine (AP) — A major dam in southern Ukraine collapsed Tuesday, flooding villages, endangering crops and threatening drinking water supplies as both sides in the war scrambled to evacuate residents and blamed each other for the destruction.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
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Anderson Comás thought of those who feel like they don’t have support and wanted to do his part to help when he decided to come out as gay in February.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
A verbal fight between two large groups on the Hollywood Broadwalk quickly turned physical and then escalated into a spray of bullets, with at least one of three gunmen intentionally trying to kill someone, an arrest warrant released Monday says.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
The question of whether to formally discipline Broward Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer’s handling of the Parkland high school mass shooting trial has turned out to be, consistently with the rest of the case, anything but routine.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
A plan has been in the works to buy and preserve land in Palm Beach County’s uppermost areas.
County commissioners voted 6-0 to buy more land for conservation during a meeting on Tuesday afternoon. It is the most recent effort to expand land preservation through the acquisition of parcels bought by the county from an area known as Palm Beach Heights, which is part of the Pal-Mar Ecosite, a region between Palm Beach and Martin County.
MIAMI — Luis Arraez had two hits to raise his major league-leading batting average to .401 and help the Miami Marlins beat the Kansas City Royals 6-1 on Tuesday night.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
ALERT: Police: 2 killed in shooting after high school graduation ceremony in Virginia capital.
Earlier: RICHMOND — Seven people were shot, and three of them were left with life-threatening wounds, when gunfire rang out Tuesday outside a downtown theater where a high school graduation ceremony had recently concluded, causing attendees to flee in panic, weep and clutch their children, authorities and witnesses reported.
General Daily Insight for June 07, 2023
We may all run hot and cold on a day like this. The Moon enters cerebral Aquarius at 4:42 am EST, setting the stage for some very potent angles.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
“We don’t pay taxes,” boasted the notorious hôtelière Leona Helmsley. “Only the little people pay taxes.”
That testimony from an ex-employee helped send her to prison for shaving her income taxes by $1.2 million.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
By KEVIN McGILL (Associated Press)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal appeals court in New Orleans prepared to hear arguments Tuesday on whether insurers can be required to cover preventive health care including HIV prevention, diabetes, mental health and some cancer screenings without charging patients out-of-pocket fees under former President Barack Obama’s signature health care law.
MIAMI – Over his first eight appearances this postseason, Jimmy Butler scored at least 25 points in each game. The legacy of Playoff Jimmy continued to grow amid the Miami Heat’s playoff success.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Get ready, Orlando, Gainesville, Lakeland, Tallahassee, Sanford, Ocala, and many other Florida cities.
Homeowners throughout the state are now eligible to apply for up to $10,000 in state funding to protect your home from damaging hurricane winds.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
LAS VEGAS — It was a big hit, a ferociously fierce hit, and on some nights Matthew Tkachuk’s open-ice, Zamboni run over Vegas star Jack Eichel might have been the kind to swing a game or define a series.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Q: Ira, some players play hard and some are not wired that way. Heat players play hard or they don’t play. But it looks like Michael Malone is trying to change the character of the Nuggets.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
By JILL COLVIN and THOMAS BEAUMONT (Associated Press)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Former Vice President Mike Pence promised “the best days of the greatest nation on earth are yet to come” in a video released Wednesday formally launching his campaign for the Republican nomination for president.
Moon Alert: After 5 a.m. EDT today (2 a.m. PDT) there are no restrictions to shopping or important decisions. The Moon is in Aquarius.
Happy Birthday for Wednesday, June 7, 2023:
You are passionate; you are also self-disciplined.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
By MSTYSLAV CHERNOV (Associated Press)
KHERSON, Ukraine (AP) — As shelling from Russia’s war on Ukraine echoed overhead, dozens of evacuees on an island in the Dnieper River scurried onto the tops of military trucks or into rafts to flee rising floodwaters caused by the breach of a dam upstream.
By COURTNEY BONNELL and WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS (AP Business Writers)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Global prices for wheat and corn soared Tuesday after a major dam in Ukraine collapsed, renewing market fears about the fragility of the country’s ability to ship food to Africa, the Middle East and parts of Asia as it fights a war with Russia.
By R.J. RICO (Associated Press)
ATLANTA (AP) — The Atlanta City Council early Tuesday approved funding for the construction of a proposed police and firefighter training center, rejecting the pleas of hundreds of activists who packed City Hall and spoke for hours in fierce opposition to the project they decry as “Cop City.”
Two private-market insurers have been approved to remove up to 26,000 policies from state-owned Citizens Property Insurance Corp.
In a consent order dated May 31, insurers Slide Insurance Company and Loggerhead Reciprocal Interinsurance Exchange were approved by Office of Insurance Regulation Commissioner Michael Yaworsky to assume selected personal lines policies from Citizens under terms approved back in 2016.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
By JILL COLVIN and HOLLY RAMER (Associated Press)
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie filed paperwork Tuesday formally launching his bid for the Republican nomination for president after casting himself as the only candidate willing to directly take on former President Donald Trump.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A top Ukrainian diplomat called Russia a “terrorist state” Tuesday as he opened his country’s case against Moscow at the United Nations’ highest court, and lawyers argued that Russia bankrolled a “campaign of intimidation and terror” by rebels in eastern Ukraine in 2014.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareFor buyers looking for their own private island and luxury living, an island in Palm Beach has hit the market offering just that.
The property, 10 Tarpon Isle, is listed for $218 million.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share