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NEW YORK (AP) — More than a dozen elected officials were arrested Thursday while protesting conditions at a New York City immigration holding facility where a federal judge this week extended a court order requiring the government to shape up its treatment of detainees. Eleven officials were arrested while attempting to inspect holding rooms on the 10th floor of the government’s 26 Federal Plaza building in Manhattan, according to a coalition of politicians, advocates and faith leaders... Read More

Spirit Airlines expects to cut its capacity by 25% this November, and is likely to reduce staffing levels further as the troubled budget carrier seeks to return to profitability during a second visit to bankruptcy court, according to a systemwide email sent to employees. As part of the airline’s efforts to slash costs, management is taking direct aim at labor expenses, and is asking its 3,000 unionized pilots to find $100 million in savings from their contract by Oct. 1, the Air Line Pilots... Read More

Nine South Florida restaurants were temporarily closed last week after the state found violations including a chewed-through, half-eaten bag of biscuits with “visible gnaw marks” and 150 “live insects” crawling over various types of dried pasta and a lidless container of olives. 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

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Two more new home insurers — one opened by Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and another founded by a Tampa-area philanthropist — have been approved to sell policies in Florida. Stand Insurance Exchange, a California-based insurer, and Praxis Reciprocal Exchange, headquartered in Tampa, are the 16th and 17th new entities to enter Florida’s market since legislative reforms were enacted in 2022 and 2023, the state Office of Insurance Regulation announced in a news release on Thursday. The 17... Read More

A Miami-Dade Police officer cannot be prosecuted for killing a hostage UPS driver in 2019 because the state’s stand-your-ground law justified the use of deadly force against the kidnappers, a Broward judge ruled Thursday. The ruling by Broward Circuit Judge Ernest Kollra is the latest landmark ruling in the application of “stand your ground” to law enforcement officers. This appears to be the first time the law has been invoked by a police officer to block a prosecution when the victim... Read More

By DAVID BAUDER, AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Jimmy Kimmel’s television future hung in the balance Thursday after ABC suspended his late-night show following the host’s comments about Charlie Kirk’s killing, which prompted dozens of stations to say they wouldn’t air the show, a move that was cheered on by a top federal regulator. The veteran late-night comic made several remarks on Monday and Tuesday about the reaction to the conservative activist’s assassination, including... Read More

Q: We live in a gated community with an HOA and had our landscaping plan approved by the Architectural Review Committee in 2015. This plan included adding shrubbery and rocks around a roadside tree. Recently, the HOA management stated that this area is community property, and the landscaping violates community rules, demanding its removal at our expense, despite previous approval. Should we challenge this in small claims court or comply and discuss who bears the restoration costs? —... Read More

By MICHAEL KELLY DENVER (AP) — Agustín Ramírez homered and drove in three runs, and the surging Miami Marlins beat the Colorado Rockies 8-4 on Wednesday night. Javier Sanoja had three hits and Lake Bachar (7-2) tossed two shutout innings in relief of Ryan Weathers for Miami, which has won six of its last seven and handed Colorado its 21st loss in the last 25 games. Mickey Moniak hit his 23rd home run for the Rockies (41-111), who need one win in their last 10 games to avoid matching the... Read More

By KIM CHANDLER A federal judge on Tuesday ordered Alabama’s largest county to redraw county commission lines after ruling that the districts were unconstitutional because of racial gerrymandering. U.S. District Judge Madeline H. Haikala ruled the county map was unconstitutional because race was the predominant factor when the Jefferson County Commission drew districts. The ruling came in a 2023 lawsuit that says the plan overly packed Black voters, who make up 40% of the county... Read More