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SUNRISE — After the Florida Panthers repeated as champions with a 5-1 win over the Edmonton Oilers on Tuesday night, fans immediately began to ask: When is the repeat parade and how do we attend? The Panthers’ championship parade is planned for Sunday starting at 12 p.m.  The route will start at A1A and Riomar Street in Fort Lauderdale. The route will go down A1A with the parade ending at SE 5th Street with a rally on stage at Fort Lauderdale Beach Park across from Hotel Maren,... Read More

One of Don Lemon’s neckties — in a way — is now part of LGBTQ+ history. The former CNN and NBC newscaster donated the apparel accessory to the Stonewall National Museum, Archives & Library in Fort Lauderdale last month, where it joins other notable contributions such as sneakers from Ellen DeGeneres, an outfit from RuPaul, pants from Ricky Martin, a tennis racket from Martina Navratilova, boots from Billy Porter, a T-shirt from Bruce Vilanch and more. Following Lemon’s visit... Read More

By Emma Court, Bloomberg News NEW YORK — Climate disasters are known for damaging homes, disrupting power and displacing residents. But even after the lights come back on and people return to their homes, their effects can linger — including in the brains of children born afterward, a new study suggests. Climate stressors, and the effect they have on pregnant people, appear to affect the brain development of their babies, according to the study published in PLOS One this month, which... Read More

Publix is set to widen its dominance of South Florida’s grocery market with two more planned openings within a week in Fort Lauderdale and Pompano Beach. On Thursday, the Lakeland-based chain opened a 29,495 square-foot store at 2895 N. Ocean Blvd., about a block south of East Oakland Park Boulevard and a stone’s throw from Fort Lauderdale’s beach. The store is smaller than others opened recently by the chain. By comparison, a rebuilt Publix that opened in Margate in April is 48,800... Read More

With all due respect to anything else happening this weekend, is there anything else happening this weekend besides the Stanley Cup champion Florida Panthers’ parade? If you were one of the 200,000 people who showed up last year along A1A on Fort Lauderdale beach, you probably thought it couldn’t get any better (except for the rain part). We shall see. All indications are that the Stanley Cup parade will return to the Fort Lauderdale oceanfront on Sunday. Stay up to date at... Read More

A new amendment approved by the Florida Board of Governors has paved the way for institutions such as UCF, UF and FSU to allocate significant financial resources for revenue sharing with student-athletes, amounting to more than $22 million annually. This significant change, initially reported by Warchant.com, permits public universities to temporarily utilize up to $22.5 million in non-athletics auxiliary funding to cover payments to athletes following the House settlement. The funding... Read More

By DORANY PINEDA, JOHN LOCHER and MARK THIESSEN GALENA, Alaska (AP) — Eric Huntington built his dream cabin nestled in the wilderness of central Alaska, eventually raising two daughters there. But over the years, he learned that living in this quiet, remote village came with a hefty cost. Every year, the Huntington family spent about $7,000 on diesel to heat the cabin during bone-chilling winters, and a few years back, a power outage at the town’s diesel plant left residents freezing in... Read More

As of Wednesday evening, Rabbi Allen Bell of West Palm Beach, who is visiting Israel in the company of his wife, Susan, had multiple plans for returning to South Florida as Iranian missiles rained down on Tel Aviv. Plan A: Drive over the Jordanian border to Amman, for a flight to JFK International Airport in New York and a connecting American Airlines flight to Miami. Plan B: On June 28, catch a flight with KLM. “That’s all dependent on the airport, whether it opens or not,” he said.... Read More

South Florida Sun Sentinel journalists won second place at the fifth annual Esserman-Knight Journalism Awards for their Born to Die series investigating Florida’s infant mortality crisis. Health reporter Cindy Goodman and photojournalist Carline Jean were honored Tuesday night for the four-part series, which analyzed state data to uncover inadequacies in maternal healthcare amid increasing restrictions on abortion, particularly among Black women, taking readers into neonatal intensive care... Read More