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Violations including 11 rodent droppings inside an oven and 10 live flies contaminating a pizza joint’s meatballs and cheese prompted the temporary closure of seven South Florida restaurants last week. Inspections also found dozens of live and dead roaches infesting multiple kitchens. The Sun Sentinel typically highlights restaurant inspections conducted by the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation in Broward and Palm Beach counties. We cull through inspections that... Read More

By Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times There’s been a long-standing belief that urinary tract infections are largely caused by poor personal hygiene. New research, however, suggests that many cases may actually be caused by infections of E. coli bacteria from contaminated meat purchased in grocery stores. UTIs are common — globally there are 400 million cases a year — and can occur when bacteria enter the urethra and infect the urinary tract, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease... Read More

Broward County Judge Mardi Levey Cohen, who was suspended and reprimanded in June for improper campaign activity during her 2022 re-election effort, has resigned effective Dec. 31, ending a 15-year career on the bench in the middle of her third term. Her resignation letter was sent last month to Gov. Ron DeSantis and Broward Chief Administrative Judge Carol-Lisa Phillips. “It has been an honor to serve the people of Florida and to uphold the laws and principles of justice,” she said in... Read More

Spirit Airlines’ dramatic overhaul of its operations could well end with a sale or merger with another carrier, according to a recent regulatory filing. While outlining the sweeping restructuring measures it has undertaken since filing a second Chapter 11 bankruptcy petition in less than a year, the airline has acknowledged holding talks with would-be suitors. The discussions have come as management has engaged in an aggressive transformation of Spirit’s route system, fleet, work force... Read More

A woman who was hospitalized after a top-floor unit in a Hollywood beach apartment building caught fire died from her injuries Thursday morning, two days after the blaze, a Hollywood Fire Rescue official said. The fire engulfed a penthouse apartment at the top of a building in the 300 block of North Surf Road on Tuesday evening. Live video from WPLG-Ch. 10 showed flames spreading through the windows and the rear sliding glass doors toward the balcony of the corner unit situated beneath... Read More

The Florida House of Representatives has hatched a batch of property tax cuts for homeowners that are a phenomenal exercise in irresponsibility. The seven — yes, seven — constitutional amendments blessed by Speaker Daniel Perez would hack away seriously, some more than others, at the most significant revenue source for Florida’s cities and counties. Even the least drastic ones would leave local government worse off. The plan is wrong in concept, timing and in conspicuously absent... Read More

Trick or treating next week just might turn out to be cool and crisp, depending on what weather source you’re looking at. At least one cold front, or possibly two, could hit South Florida next week. What that means for Halloween depends on the second front, said National Weather Service meteorologist Robert Garcia. “It’s looking like that later front may be more into the midweek, Wednesday into Thursday, so we could see Thursday and Friday (Halloween, Oct. 31) with some of that drier,... Read More

By MARY CLARE JALONICK, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The government shutdown has reopened debate on what has been a central issue for both major political parties in the last 15 years: the future of health coverage under the Affordable Care Act. Tax credits for people who get health insurance through the marketplaces created by the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, expire at the end of the year. Democrats say they won’t vote to reopen the government until Republicans... Read More

ORLANDO — Observations and other notes of interest from Wednesday night’s 125-121 loss to the Orlando Magic: – The previous math, the one we mostly saw in the preseason, appears to be back. – Even after a statistically dominant preseason by Kel’el Ware. – Even after coach Erik Spoelstra stressed how willing a pupil Ware has been. – In Wednesday night’s first half, either Bam Adebayo or Ware. – But neither together, with Adebayo playing 16 minutes over the first two... Read More

By MEAD GRUVER CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Investigators in Wyoming sought to identify two men they believe left a homemade bomb in front of the state Capitol, causing the building’s evacuation after a passerby found the object and brought it inside. The bomb, at a time of heightened political angst in the U.S., put the sleepy capital of the least-populated state on edge for awhile, with drones overhead and officers with bomb-sniffing dogs combing the Capitol grounds. But a day later, things... Read More