Month: February 2025

No criminal charges will be filed against the Georgia sheriff’s deputy who shot and killed an exonerated former Florida prison inmate during an intense physical struggle on a busy highway in 2023, Georgia officials said Tuesday. Camden County Deputy Staff Sgt. Buck Aldridge had seen Leonard Allan Cure, 53, speeding northbound on Interstate 95 just north of the Florida-Georgia border early on Oct. 16, 2023. After pulling him over, Aldridge assertively ordered Cure out of his pickup. But... Read More

No criminal charges will be filed against the Georgia sheriff’s deputy who shot and killed an exonerated former Florida prison inmate during an intense physical struggle on a busy highway in 2023, Georgia officials said Tuesday. Camden County Deputy Staff Sgt. Buck Aldridge had seen Leonard Allan Cure, 53, speeding northbound on Interstate 95 just north of the Florida-Georgia border early on Oct. 16, 2023. After pulling him over, Aldridge assertively ordered Cure out of his pickup. But... Read More

By RUSS BYNUM SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia sheriff’s deputy won’t face criminal charges for fatally shooting a Black man during a 2023 traffic stop that spiraled into a violent struggle, the district attorney who examined body camera video and other evidence in the killing said Tuesday. Leonard Cure, 53, was killed just three years after Florida authorities had freed him from prison after serving 16 years for a crime he did not commit. A white deputy in Camden County, Georgia, pulled... Read More

By MAE ANDERSON, AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Small business owners felt more uncertain about the future in January, as they continue to deal with labor challenges and lingering inflation. According to a monthly poll of small business owners from the National Federation of Independent Business, the uncertainty index in January rose 14 points to 100 – the third highest recorded reading, after two months of decline. The NFIB said small business owners are feeling less confident... Read More

By NICOLE WINFIELD and TRISHA THOMAS, Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Francis, hospitalized in critical condition with double pneumonia, was well enough to meet with the Vatican secretary of state to approve new decrees for saints and call a formal meeting to set the dates for their canonization, the Vatican said Tuesday. The audience, which occurred Monday, signaled that the machinery of the Vatican was still grinding on and looking ahead even with Francis, 88, hospitalized and doctors... Read More

A 650-home community of townhouses is planned for Lauderhill on a retired golf course, and South Florida could see more townhouse development as land becomes more scarce and costs continue to rise, experts say. “Where it can be zoned, it can be built,” the National Association of Home Builders declared in a prepared statement, announcing that a recent study shows townhouse construction expanded 10% during 2024, outpacing the rest of the single-family home building market across the... Read More

General Daily Insight for February 25, 2025 Heavy thoughts could weigh us down today. After the comfort-craving Moon enters logical Aquarius and joins up with intense Pluto, we may conjure extreme strategies to protect ourselves from literal or hypothetical pain. Reshaping the whole world might seem to be worth the trouble! On the other hand, once intellectual Mercury conjoins melancholy Saturn at 7:02 am EST, we’ll potentially flip to the opposite extreme of seeing nothing but our... Read More

ATLANTA — Observations and other notes of interest from Monday night’s 98-86 loss to the Atlanta Hawks: – Erik Spoelstra made clear before the game that there are no scapegoats. – His team’s uneven play, Spoelstra said, was a collective issue. – Still, something had to be done. – What was done was pulling Terry Rozier out of the rotation. – So Alec Burks played, as Rozier sat. – And Jaime Jaquez Jr. played (briefly), as Rozier sat. – A year ago, Rozier was added to make... Read More

ATLANTA — A microcosm of the season, as in the Miami Heat don’t have a shot? It certainly felt that way in Monday night’s 98-86 loss to the Atlanta Hawks at State Farm Arena, when a made shot practically was reason for celebration and a converted 3-pointer practically an abstract. In falling to 1-6 since trading forward Jimmy Butler to the Golden State Warriors, the Heat this time did not have All-Star guard Tyler Herro carrying the load and therefore found themselves unable to... Read More