Category: Broward News

Opponents also have brought up Barrett’s ties to People of Praise, a group that calls on its mostly Catholic congregants to join Protestants in worship and works of service outside the church. According to online archives, Barrett and husband Jesse M. Barrett, a federal prosecutor in northern Indiana, have long been involved with the group of about 1,700 that formed in South Bend in 1971. ... Read More

“Her talent, I’d say, is off the charts for her age,” said Murray, who has hit with the likes of Venus Williams and Naomi Osaka. “There’s not a lot of people I can name in the past that have come up like her, besides the Williams sisters. If people, if they know tennis, are familiar with Martina Hingis. That’s the closest thing I can come up with. But she’s definitely one of a kind, and I can see in these two or three years, give her time, and she’s gonna be just as good.” ... Read More

Meanwhile, investigators at the Orange County Sheriff’s Office were trying to find Caylee with few paths to follow, said Stucker, who was leading the criminal investigations division at the time. They knew the child had been gone for about a month, meaning the trail could already be cold. They didn’t know for sure where she was last seen, since the apartment Casey pointed them to had been vacant for months. ... Read More

Members of the Chicago Fire and Police departments work to rescue a Fire Department diver who was killed while attempting to rescue a person who fell from a boat into the Chicago River near Canalport Riverwalk Park in Chicago on May 28, 2018. (Armando L. Sanchez, E. Jason Wambsgans / Chicago Tribune) ... Read More

But their population has diminished — quite significantly, Leppla said. The scientists aren’t completely sure why, but it may be partly because love bugs don’t have any really impressive survival defenses. In fact, Koehler said, they have only one. ... Read More

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in the Miami Herald in 2018 after the mass shooting at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High. It is being republished in light of … Click to Continue » ... Read More

The late William T. Kelley, who taught Trump at the University of Pennsylvania, said, “Donald Trump was the dumbest goddamn student I ever had.” Tony Schwartz, the ghostwriter of “The Art of the Deal,” says Trump had “a stunning level of superficial knowledge and plain ignorance.” ... Read More

All it took was the purchase of a Marilyn Monroe photo from a suburban Chicago calendar company. That’s the spark Playboy creator Hugh Hefner needed to complete his vision for a gentleman’s publication, which he hoped would have mass appeal — not just for its provocative photos — but also its witty, thought-provoking articles. Hefner died at the age of 91 in 2017. Hefner’s childhood home 1922 N. New England Ave., Chicago As a boy, Hefner published a typewritten... Read More

Stephen Hawking, the famed theoretical physicist, predicts that humankind has about 100 years to find a new planet. A promotion for a BBC documentary he appears in notes: “With climate change, overdue asteroid strikes, epidemics and population growth, our own planet is increasingly precarious.” ... Read More

Aylin is mad at her mother. Not that this is an anomaly in mother-daughter relationships. Teenage girls often bristle at the women who brought them into the world. But with … Click to Continue » ... Read More