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By JOSH FUNK OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Tyson Foods’ decision to close a beef plant that employs nearly one third of residents of Lexington, Nebraska, could devastate the small city and undermine the profits of ranchers nationwide. Closing a single slaughterhouse might not seem significant, but the Lexington plant employs roughly 3,200 people in the city of 11,000 and has the capacity to slaughter some 5,000 head of cattle a day. Tyson also plans to cut one of the two shifts at a plant in... Read More

No hard feelings toward Uncle Sam? Well, millions of Thanksgiving holiday travelers probably won’t go that far this week as many salve psychological wounds from a U.S. government shutdown that slowed commercial aviation this month to the outer limits of exasperation. Nonetheless, South Florida airport officials, the nation’s airlines and the Federal Aviation Administration are all expecting record numbers of travelers between now and Dec. 2. “During the 12-day Thanksgiving travel period... Read More

It can be hard to take James Uthmeier seriously. When he was sworn into office as Florida’s attorney general in February, Uthmeier promised “No empty rhetoric. No posturing.” Since then, though, he has engaged in a string of rapid-fire threats and click-bait headlines. In the last six weeks alone, Uthmeier accused Microsoft of unfairly withholding grant money from anti-abortion pregnancy centers, suggesting it was hostile to Christians. He filed to sue California over its tax rules in... Read More

A Broward jury has ordered a Lighthouse Point man to pay $1.1 million to a woman he raped after incapacitating her with chloroform when she worked at his Pembroke Pines pet shop in 1995. The woman filed a lawsuit against Bianculli in 2022 after learning, because of a separate criminal investigation against Bianculli, that he had saved a videotape of their encounter. The woman, who was 17 at the time (Bianculli was 48), went to police at the time, but the state declined to prosecute because... Read More

A 37-year-old man is facing a federal narcotics charge after a police K-9 found tens of thousands of fentanyl pills stashed inside of a child’s toy in his car in Fort Lauderdale, prosecutors said. Fort Lauderdale Police were responding to a call at a Walgreens in the 700 block of West Broward Boulevard on Nov. 15 and noticed an unrelated “suspicious” car parked in the lot, according to a criminal complaint. Officers met with the driver, Guillermo Higuera German, of Mexico, who told... Read More

It’s a joy to light Hanukkah candles for eight straight nights, no question. But after the candles begin their burn, why not do something different this year? Hanukkah, which begins on Sunday, Dec. 14, commemorates the rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem after the Maccabee freedom fighters fought the Seleucid Empire in the second century BC and won. The temple menorah only had enough oil to last one day but is said to have lasted eight days, a miracle recalled today by lighting... Read More

The nation’s top military officer is visiting American troops Monday in Puerto Rico and on a Navy warship in the region, where the U.S. has amassed an unusually large fleet of warships and has been attacking alleged drug-smuggling boats. Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and President Donald Trump’s primary military adviser, will be joined by David L. Isom, the senior enlisted adviser to Caine. Caine’s office said in a statement that the men will “engage with... Read More

By DEE-ANN DURBIN, Associated Press Business Writer CHELSEA, Mich. (AP) — Old Brick Farm, where Larry Doll raises chickens, turkeys and ducks, was fortunate this Thanksgiving season. Doll’s small farm west of Detroit had no cases of bird flu, despite an ongoing outbreak that killed more than 2 million U.S. turkeys in the last three months alone. He also avoided another disease, avian metapneumovirus, which causes turkeys to lay fewer eggs. “I try to keep the operation as clean as... Read More

If there is to be a repeat of the COVID-era New York-to-Florida migration in 2026, it is more likely to come in small increments as opposed to a thundering herd. Now that Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic Socialist, has been elected mayor of New York City, Palm Beach and Broward counties — as well as their friendly neighbor to the south, Miami-Dade County — are again viewed as potential landing spots for out-of-state residents and business operators in search of lower tax bills and living... Read More

Law enforcement is the number one priority of the Broward County budget, and the state should not force county government to increase funding for the Sheriff’s Office, local officials said last week. In a 71-page response to the State of Florida Administration Commission, Broward County Attorney Andrew Meyers said the Broward Sheriff’s Office is adequately funded, pointing out a decade-long trend of steady funding increases from 2017 through the current fiscal year, which started Oct.... Read More