New Hampshire resident charged in shooting at Canadian border

By KATHY McCORMACK and PATRICK WHITTLE, Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Authorities have charged a New Hampshire resident in connection with a shooting that occurred at the state’s border with Canada, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. Blu Zeke Daly, 26, who also goes by Cullan Zeke Daly, of Manchester, was charged with one count of attempted murder of a federal officer and one count of assaulting a federal officer with a deadly weapon, prosecutors said. Daly was shot near the... Read More

Man sentenced to 8 years after Lauderhill shooting led to ID theft investigation

A Broward County man has been sentenced to more than eight years in federal prison after a drive-by shooting at a Lauderhill home led to the discovery of “a calculated fraud operation,” federal prosecutors announced Tuesday. Keith Bethel, 34, was found guilty by a jury in September of charges of possession of a firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon, possession of 15 or more unauthorized access devices and aggravated identity theft. He was sentenced to 104 months in prison, followed... Read More

Watch live: President Donald Trump’s State of the Union speech

President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address Tuesday at 9 p.m. Eastern is likely to be a test run of the message Republicans will give to voters in November’s elections for control of the House and the Senate. The president and his party appear vulnerable, with polls showing much of America distrusts how Trump has managed the government in his first year back in office. In addition, the Supreme Court last week struck down one of the chief levers of his economic... Read More

Former Plantation mayor sentenced to probation

Former Plantation Mayor Lynn Stoner was sentenced Tuesday to one year of probation after pleading no contest to charges of official misconduct and related misdemeanors. Stoner had been arrested in 2023, accused of trying to coerce a city building official to fraudulently sign off on development projects and falsifying documents to help a developer get a loan. Stoner served on the Plantation City Council from 2011 to 2017 before being elected mayor in 2018. She lost her reelection campaign in... Read More

Spirit cuts deal with lenders, expects to exit bankruptcy in late spring or early summer

Spirit Airlines announced Tuesday it expects to complete its reorganization under Chapter 11 bankruptcy by late spring or early summer after management reached a tentative financing agreement with its top lenders. But the troubled Dania Beach-based carrier, which sought bankruptcy protection from creditors for the second time in less than a year in August, won’t be the pure-play discounter that set it apart from the rest of the commercial airline industry for years. “Spirit intends to... Read More

Dolphins’ Hafley, Sullivan lay out expectations for Year 1: ‘More about the process than anything else’

INDIANAPOLIS — Miami Dolphins coach Jeff Hafley and general manager Jon-Eric Sullivan offered some foundational thoughts on what they think the coming football season should look like in the first year of a rebuild under the new tandem. “I think it’s going to be more about the process than anything else,” Hafley said from his podium at Indiana Convention Center for the NFL scouting combine on Tuesday. “Building the foundation the way we want, the play style we want. Putting these... Read More

Coming to FLIFF and The Parker stage, Paul Reiser talks Ireland, comedy and ‘Stranger Things’

In a career that includes 11 Emmy nominations, Manhattan-raised actor, best-selling author and comedian Paul Reiser has helped us navigate early manhood (“Diner”), marriage (“Mad About You”), middle-age craziness (“The Kominsky Method”) and monsters (“Aliens” and “Stranger Things”). Reiser will be in Fort Lauderdale on Tuesday for an appearance at the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival with his recent film “The Problem With People,” co-starring Colm Meaney, a... Read More

Breeze adding eight cities from Fort Lauderdale, including Tallahassee, Jacksonville

Discount airline Breeze Airways will soon become the latest airline to take a crack at serving Tallahassee from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport as part of a move designed to broaden its Florida service out of Broward County. The Utah-based carrier announced Tuesday it will start serving Florida’s capital city in July. Overall, the Breeze expansion will add eight cities out of Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood, pushing the total to 13. Besides Tallahassee, the new in-state service... Read More

Giannis out of view Tuesday for Heat-Bucks, but still looming as future thought?

In the end, no Giannis Antetokounmpo on Tuesday night at Fiserv Forum for the Milwaukee Bucks and no Giannis Antetokounmpo on Tuesday night at Fiserv Forum for the Miami Heat. The latter always felt like a longshot, even with all the Antetokounmpo trade swirl around the Feb. 5 NBA trade deadline. So, instead, Giannis still a Buck — for now — sidelined with a calf strain for the Heat’s lone visit of the season to Milwaukee. The thought at the NBA trade deadline was that if the Bucks do... Read More