At this point, South Florida has hockey fandom down to a science. We’ve cheered on the Florida Panthers to historic back-to-back Stanley Cup championships over the last two seasons and flooded Fort Lauderdale’s beachfront — braving torrential downpours and extreme heat — for parades honoring the team’s hard-earned victories. There’s no doubt our interest in hockey has crescendoed to a roar louder than the last 10 seconds of a Stanley Cup Final Game 7. But what do we know... Read More
Four Sharks Earn Sunshine State Conference Weekly Honors
Story Links ORLANDO, Fla. – The Sunshine State Conference announced its weekly award winners for the week of February 2-8, and four Sharks were highlighted. Kaliyah Morales, Taydra Simpson, Gracelyn Wallace and Kristyna Hranacova were named Women’s Basketball Player and Defensive Player of the Week, Softball Pitcher of the Week and Women’s Tennis Player of the Week, respectively. Morales delivered a strong offensive performance in the Sharks’ road win against... Read More
How Americans’ optimism about their future has changed, according to new polling
By LINLEY SANDERS, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans’ hope for their future has fallen to a new low, according to new polling. In 2025, only about 59% of Americans gave high ratings when asked to evaluate how good their life will be in about five years, the lowest annual measure since Gallup began asking this question almost 20 years ago. It’s a warning about the depth of the gloom that has fallen over the country over the past few years. In the data, Gallup’s... Read More
Winderman’s view: Heat could have more, but lost while settling for less
MIAMI — Observations and other notes of interest from Monday night’s 115-111 loss to the Utah Jazz: – The upshot of the past week, be it the lack of selling off contacts at Thursday’s NBA trade deadline or Erik Spoelstra’s daily pregame words of hope, has been about living in the moment. – Playing for the moment. – The focus on the W. – Doesn’t matter if you disagree, because that is who they are. – But if they are that, then why not a commensurate personnel approach? –... Read More
Heat find way to lose to a team trying to lose, fall 115-111 to Jazz
MIAMI — The low point of this Miami Heat season? Welcome to it, when Erik Spoelstra’s team on Monday night lost to a team that was trying to lose. Given every opportunity to string together only their second winning streak since early January, the Heat disastrously declined the gift, falling 115-111 to the Utah Jazz at Kaseya Center. “It’s a game,” Heat forward Andrew Wiggins said, “we’ve got to win, no matter what.” Faced with the prospect of losing their first-round pick in... Read More
Fourth Broward Schools employee accused of fraud, theft from ‘illicit’ gym rentals
A Broward County middle school employee was arrested Saturday, accused of running “illicit basketball tournaments” at the school’s gym and keeping the money from the improper rentals, police said. Shaune Cannon, 50, a behavioral technician at Forest Glen Middle School in Coral Springs, is facing one count of organized scheme to defraud $20,000 or less and one count of grand theft of more than $10,000, according to a probable cause affidavit. He is the fourth Broward School District... Read More
Trump told Palm Beach police chief ‘everyone’ knew about Epstein, Maxwell was ‘evil’
President Donald Trump has repeatedly maintained that he had no knowledge of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex crimes. But in July 2006, just as Jeffrey Epstein’s criminal case became public, Trump called then-Palm Beach police chief Michael Reiter to tell him that Epstein’s activities with teenaged girls were well known in both New York and Palm Beach. “Thank goodness you’re stopping him, everyone has known he’s been doing this,” Trump told Reiter, according to a 2019 FBI interview with... Read More
Trump shrugs off blatantly racist trope | Editorial
Barack and Michelle Obama are not alone in deserving the apology that Donald Trump will not give. The Obamas were the objects of his breathtakingly vile video post depicting them as apes — an insult to all decent Americans. Once again, Trump disgraced the nation’s highest office. He implied that he takes us to be as vulgar and racist as he is. To be sure, there are many people like that, and he caters to their bigotry. That’s not who we are, but it is who Trump is. The government had... Read More
Postcard perfect: Expect a sunny, calm week ahead for South Florida
The weather this week looks ideal, with sunny to modestly sunny skies each day, temperatures in the mid-70s to low-80s. Evening temperatures should drop to around the 60s throughout the workweek. Winds should be relatively calm, and humidity will be moderate. Things could change a bit over the coming weekend, with chances of showers increasing Saturday night into Sunday. Conditions also will remain dry. Much of the Southeast is experiencing unusually dry conditions, and parts of South... Read More
US military boards sanctioned oil tanker in the Indian Ocean after pursuit from the Caribbean
By BEN FINLEY and MICHAEL BIESECKER WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. military forces boarded a sanctioned oil tanker in the Indian Ocean after tracking the ship from the Caribbean Sea, the Pentagon said Monday. The Pentagon’s statement on social media did not say whether the ship was connected to Venezuela, which faces U.S. sanctions on its oil and relies on a shadow fleet of falsely flagged tankers to smuggle crude into global supply chains. However, the Aquila II was one of at least 16 tankers... Read More