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DEAR MISS MANNERS: I came home from work one evening and found my daughter on the phone, so I passed her a note. She immediately said, “I am on the phone, Dad.” I was upset by this response, and asked who she was talking to — to make sure I didn’t interrupt anything important — but it happened to be her boyfriend. Am I overreacting, or was she wrong to say that? GENTLE READER: Was she wrong to remind you that she was on the phone — and that your note was therefore an... Read More

By ANTHONY SANFILIPPO PHILADELPHIA — Xavier Edwards drove in the winning run with an 11th-inning sacrifice fly, Heriberto Hernández and Griffin Conine homered during a late rally and the Miami Marlins kept their playoff hopes alive with a 6-5 win over the Philadelphia Phillies on Tuesday night. Hernández, who had three hits, homered with one out in the ninth inning off Philadelphia closer Jhoan Duran to force extras. Conine homered in the eighth inning off David Robertson to start the... Read More

General Daily Insight for September 24, 2025 Today’s vibes are anything but subtle. The Sun in Libra is trining Pluto in Aquarius, and the planet of transformation is rousing us to open our minds to new ways of being. Mars in Scorpio nudges eclectic Uranus in Gemini, inspiring an unusual approach to our endeavors, but things really fire up when Mars locks into a combustible square with Pluto at 7:52 am EDT. This is one of the most jarring angles in astrology, so we should all batten down... Read More

A Florida Highway Patrol trooper, acting with federal immigration authority, was injured on Monday morning during a traffic stop in Plantation as he tried to handcuff a man, who then managed to briefly escape arrest. Jonathan Hernandez Guzman, 29, of Stuart, is facing charges of aggravated battery on an officer, attempt to escape and resisting an officer with violence. The FHP trooper pulled over a Ford F-150 pickup truck with a driver and five passengers inside shortly after 8 a.m. on... Read More

By LAURA UNGAR Faith Ayer had no qualms about taking Tylenol for chronic migraines and COVID-19 during her pregnancy, and grew disappointed and angry as she watched President Donald Trump rail against the pain medicine. “A lot of the claims that were shared have just not been backed by evidence,” said Ayer, a nurse practitioner in Jacksonville, Florida, who is about 17 weeks pregnant with her first child. She said Trump’s words have implications “for patients across the country and... Read More

A man was detained by officers early Tuesday morning after a shooting near Fort Lauderdale beach left one person dead, police said. Fort Lauderdale officers were called about a shooting in the 1400 block of North Fort Lauderdale Beach Boulevard about 2:30 a.m., and officers who were on their way to the scene were told a man who might have been involved was walking in the area, holding a black T-shirt, Sgt. David Soika, a spokesperson for the department, said in a statement Tuesday... Read More

Can you feel the restaurant churn? As the heat index surged and tourists left town, the unmistakable signs were everywhere this summer: Longtime mom-and-pops closed shop with little warning on social media, Facebook commenters offered their say-it-ain’t-so outcries, and new eateries eager to backfill vacancies started construction anew. This season, the churn has felt like a deluge: Across Broward and Palm Beach counties, restaurants that once weathered decades of downturns have closed left... Read More

She became known at one point in her career as “The World’s Prettiest Photographer.” But the accomplishments of Bunny Yeager — the Miami Beach artist, model, feminist pioneer and icon — can’t be summed up with one simple, reductive label. “Naked Ambition,” the exhilarating new documentary by South Florida-based co-directors Dennis Scholl and Kareem Tabsch, explores the life and work of Yeager, a married mother of two who began her career as a model, then progressed to walking... Read More

Pop singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran is bringing his stadium-filling sound to Hard Rock Live at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood for two concerts on Oct. 29-30, 2026. The general on-sale will begin at 10 a.m. Friday, with tickets starting at $185, at Ticketmaster.com. Sheeran’s global LOOP Tour, which begins Dec. 1 in Paris, will support his eighth studio album, “Play,” released on Sept. 12. The 13-song collection finds the sweet-voiced singer back in the mood to use his... Read More

She levitates above her chair. An old man hurls a priest across the room. A young woman speaks full paragraphs in Bulgarian, a language she’s never studied. A man’s skin blisters at the sight of a crucifix. In interviews with The Baltimore Sun, exorcists claimed these are not movie scenes but moments they’ve witnessed firsthand. And what’s more, requests from the public to undergo the ancient ritual are multiplying. Today, more than 50 years after Linda Blair’s head spun in the... Read More