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The coming holiday week will see temperatures dropping each day to a low Saturday night of around 50 in Fort Lauderdale, 47 in the Palm Beaches and even cooler inland, according to the National Weather Service. Weston should see overnight lows as nippy as 46 on Saturday. Temperatures on New Year’s Eve are similar — some forecasters have them dipping even lower while others show it a tad warmer. Upstate, Orlando should see temperatures as low as 41 at night over the coming weekend and... Read More

By COLLEEN SLEVIN and MATTHEW BROWN (Associated Press) BRIGHTON, Colo. (AP) — Two Denver-area paramedics were convicted Friday for giving a fatal overdose of the sedative ketamine in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain – a jury verdict that experts said could have a chilling effect on first responders around the country. The case over the 23-year-old Black man’s death was the first among several recent criminal prosecutions against medical first responders to reach trial, potentially... Read More

By WAYNE PARRY (Associated Press) SHAMONG, N.J. (AP) — A Philadelphia television news helicopter returning from an assignment photographing Christmas lights earlier this week plunged into a southern New Jersey forest “at very high speed,” broke apart, then caught fire after it crashed, killing both occupants, a federal crash investigator said Friday. Todd Gunther, an investigator with the National Transportation Safety Board, told reporters near the crash site that WPVI’s Chopper 6... Read More

A counter-depth cabinet front Sub-Zero brand freezer, left, and refrigerator pair is shown at La Maison Blanche, a grand neoclassical estate on the Intracoastal Waterway in Fort Lauderdale, on Friday, Dec. 22, 2023. The circa-1930s home is set for demolition in the coming weeks and there will be a live auction this Saturday of 700 or so items from the property. (Amy Beth Bennett / South Florida Sun Sentinel) ... Read More

If you’ve ever traveled by boat up the Intracoastal from Port Everglades to the New River, you’ve surely seen it, a grand neoclassical estate on the tip of a manmade finger of land, its portico and tall white columns echoing the White House in Washington, D.C. Dubbed La Maison Blanche (the White House), the home, which has become somewhat of a landmark over the years, is set for demolition in the coming weeks. In its place, a massive 20,000-square-foot modernist home replete with a... Read More

By COLBY GUY (Associated Press) SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Joel Hofer stopped 36 shots, Pavel Buchnevich scored twice and the St. Louis Blues topped the sliding Florida Panthers 4-1 on Thursday night. Buchnevich added an assist, giving him a three-point night. Robert Thomas had three assists, and Jordan Kyrou and Alexey Toropchenko also scored for the Blues. Eetu Luostarinen scored the Panthers’ lone goal, and Sergei Bobrovsky made 21 saves. St. Louis has won three of its last four games under... Read More

South Florida has kicked off a week of cool, dry and sunny weather — bringing a welcome change to the storm system that lashed the region for four gusty days. Wind gusts blasted coastal communities, which felt as if a tropical storm had hit us. And the soggy weather left 4 to 5 inches of rain in Palm Beach County, and 2 to 4 inches for most of Broward County. It has given way to a cooldown. The forecast calls for overnight Monday into early Tuesday morning to be the chilliest, said Robert... Read More

Up to 6 inches of rain, if not more, could drench parts of South Florida as the region faces soggy, windy weather that’ll last through this weekend, forecasters said Thursday. The National Weather Service says the best-case scenario for cumulative rainfall from Thursday through Saturday is 2 to 3 inches throughout metro South Florida, and a worst-case scenario could 4 to 6 inches throughout most of the region — with a pocket of 6 to 8 inches from Fort Lauderdale south into northern... Read More

By KEVIN FREKING (Associated Press) WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate passed a defense policy bill Wednesday that authorizes the biggest pay raise for troops in more than two decades, but also leaves behind many of the policy priorities that social conservatives were clamoring for, making for an unusually divisive debate over what is traditionally a strongly bipartisan effort. Lawmakers have been negotiating a final bill for months after each chamber passed strikingly different versions in... Read More

DENVER (AP) — Harald Hasselbach, a defensive lineman for the Denver Broncos during the team’s back-to-back Super Bowl championships in the late 1990s, has died at age 56. The Broncos announced Hasselbach’s death on Thursday, citing family. Hasselbach’s family said he died at home in the Denver area after a six-month fight with cancer. Hasselback began his career with the Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian Football League. He’s one of 10 players to win a Grey Cup and a Super... Read More