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By LARRY NEUMEISTER (Associated Press) NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors at Sen. Bob Menendez’s bribery trial showed jurors hundreds of texts, emails and phone calls over two days that show his girlfriend-turned-wife’s desperate financial situation before New Jersey businessmen she had long known came to the rescue. Prosecutors elicited the evidence through the testimony of an FBI agent for a second day Wednesday as they sought to show that Menendez, 70, conspired with three businessmen and his wife, Nadine Menendez, 57, in a bribery scheme that enriched the couple with gold bars, hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash and a luxury car. The Menendezes and two of the businessmen have pleaded not guilty, while the third pleaded guilty and is scheduled to testify.

A Boynton Beach Police officer who was fired in 2022 after a teen on a dirt bike died following a pursuit should get his job back, an arbitrator ruled. The city has 90 days to appeal. On Dec. 26, 2021, Officer Mark Sohn began a pursuit of 13-year-old Stanley Davis III, who family called “SJ,” after he attempted to pull Davis over at a gas station on North Federal Highway, and Davis fled.

By DEE-ANN DURBIN (AP Business Writer) McDonald’s is fighting back against viral tweets and media reports that it says have exaggerated its price increases. In a post on the company’s website Wednesday, McDonald’s U. S. President Joe Erlinger said reports suggesting the price of the average Big Mac has doubled since 2019 were false.

FORT LAUDERDALE — Dust. Lane closures. Bumper-to-bumper traffic. That’s been the current situation at downtown Fort Lauderdale’s U. S. 1 tunnel for 32 months now. Drivers have endured nightmarish gridlock since work began on the $28.4 million upgrade of the Henry E. Kinney Tunnel nearly three years ago. Many days, only two lanes have been open instead of the usual four.

8212; A fugitive dubbed the “bad breath rapist” has been arrested in the San Francisco Bay Area more than 16 years after he fled following his conviction for sexually assaulting a coworker in Massachusetts, authorities said this week. Tuen Kit Lee was found guilty at a 2007 trial of the kidnapping and rape of the young woman at knifepoint at her home in Quincy, south of Boston, the U.

The demand for housing remains high in Palm Beach County, with home values rising across the board last year in all of the county’s 39 cities, towns and villages, according to property appraiser’s estimates released Wednesday. Countywide, the taxable property values increased 9.12%, including factoring in new construction, and every municipality saw its overall home value rise, the appraiser’s office said.