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Each December in South Florida, Santa prefers to travel around town by sea sleigh. Of course he calls it a “megayacht,” but we know he’s hiding presents aboard, probably in cahoots with Rudolph. Don’t believe us? See St. Nick for yourself from Miami to Jupiter, when flotillas of holiday boat parades decked from bow to stern in Christmas lights, elves and tinsel sail our waterways ahead of Christmas Day. And this year, Santa has added a new route to his “nauti” list: The inaugural... Read More

A small plane that plummeted into a Pembroke Pines neighborhood in July, reviving an enduring safety debate about North Perry Airport, was caused by the pilot’s “inadequate preflight fuel planning,” a National Transportation Safety Board investigation found. The pilot of the 1976 Cessna T337G, his wife and their two teenage daughters were approaching North Perry Airport the night of July 13 when they came crashing down into Pines Village, narrowly missing homes. The plane smashed... Read More

By CORA LEWIS, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Chain stores have Black Friday. Online marketplaces have Cyber Monday. For local businesses, it’s Small Business Saturday. In the last 20 years, more segments of the retail industry have vied for their own piece of the holiday shopping season. The travel trade has firmly joined the trend with another post-Thanksgiving sales push: Travel Tuesday. On the same day as the nonprofit world’s Giving Tuesday, airlines, hotels, cruise ship... Read More

GAINESVILLE — As Florida positioned national championship-winning Steve Spurrier and Urban Meyer feet away from the podium where next year’s coach Jon Sumrall spoke in his introductory press conference, the current team pensively stared at him. While Florida wanted onlookers to believe it could still recapture the magic of Tim Tebow and Danny Wuerffel, the reality of this season hung over the 100-person crowd like an August thunderstorm. ​This team, to put it kindly, has been dragged... Read More

GAINESVILLE — With Steve Spurrier and Urban Meyer in the audience and a skeptical fan base tuned in, new Gators football coach Jon Sumrall made a Tim Tebow-like promise he expects to keep. Sumrall didn’t shy away from the enormous — and at times unrealistic — expectations at Florida when he was introduced Monday at the Heavener Football Center. “The standard here is championships,” he said. “That’s why I came. I’m built for this job. I was made for this job. Winners win;... Read More

By HANNAH FINGERHUT DES MOINES, Iowa — Four Republican-led states agreed to settle lawsuits against the federal government over access to voters’ citizenship data, ending a dispute that began with the Biden administration in advance of the 2024 presidential election. Officials in Florida, Indiana, Iowa and Ohio entered the settlement with the Department of Homeland Security and Secretary Kristi Noem roughly a year after the states individually sued the agency under President Joe Biden.... Read More

South Florida is in for a pleasant first week of December. Though Tuesday could see scattered showers throughout the region, especially in Palm Beach County and northern Broward County, forecasters are calling for mostly sunny skies during the day and partly cloudy evenings through the weekend. Daytime temperatures will remain in the low to mid 80s while overnight lows will dip to the upper 60s and low 70s. “We’re still going to have periods of shower activity,” including Tuesday, said... Read More

Since it started as a hashtag in 2012, GivingTuesday, the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, has become one of the biggest fundraising days of the year for nonprofits in the U.S. This year, nonprofits face uncertainty about how donors may respond to a range of changing factors. High prices may affect how much small dollar donors give this year or how many charities they will support. But President Donald Trump’s tax and spending legislation, which passed in July, also included a new charitable... Read More

By MICHAEL R. SISAK, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — As the first anniversary of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s killing looms this week, the man charged in his death will be in court fighting to prevent prosecutors from using evidence they say links him to the crime. Luigi Mangione, 27, is set for hearings starting Monday on his bid to block the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office from showing or telling jurors about items seized during his arrest at a yet-unscheduled state... Read More

More than 100 people descended upon an outdoor bar restaurant in Fort Lauderdale on a recent November night, lounging by the fireplace, sipping wine and snacking on chicken wings, talking and laughing. Some kept an eye out for romantic interests; others reconnected with old friends, or made new ones. But they weren’t just there to have fun. They came to network. In a region known as “Wall Street South,” networking might take on a negative connotation, depending on who you ask. But for... Read More