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Those killed included Cline’s 22-year-old daughter, Kameron, and three of her close friends: Brittney Layne Searson, Jillian Clark, and Delaney Wykle. Searson, Clark and Kameron Cline were recent graduates of Louisiana State University. Wykle had recently graduated from West Virginia University. ... Read More

Steven Schwartz, who owns ChiroCare, said the unit was originally going to be a medical office until Pizzafire’s owners tore it down to build a pizza shop. He said he thought the owners were trying to lease the space to another restaurant, since it was built for one. ... Read More

But agents from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, along with the Broward Sheriff’s bomb squad, were investigating. Posts on social media reported the blast was heard more than six miles to the west in Davie to about four miles to the east near the turnpike. ... Read More

The Broward Sheriff’s Office bomb and arson unit joined state fire marshals at the scene in the 800 block of South University Drive. Representatives of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and a TECO Energy crew, joined the investigation. ... Read More

Boca Raton, Delray Beach and Boynton Beach have their own systems, but the county’s radio system “brain” acts as the brain for those systems, she said. The county’s system also provides communications to 44 local, state and federal providers, including adjacent counties and municipalities within other counties. ... Read More

Now, items including computers, audiovisual screens and lighting equipment, cameras, digital photography and editing equipment, restaurant equipment, office suites, modular workstations and furniture will be up for grabs in an auction to be conducted online and at the school’s former home. ... Read More

Hamilton’s neighbor, Angie Williams, was devastated to see her friend after the accident. She was watching the fireworks from the sidewalk down the street when she heard a boom — “like a bomb” — but didn’t realize anything was wrong until she heard the yelling. ... Read More

Robbing athletes of economic rights to their name and image seems such an affront to free market conservative principles, one wonders why it’s California, with a legislature utterly dominated by liberal Democrats, about to end it, and not the faux conservative Republicans who run a state like Florida. But on Tuesday, a last key committee in the California Assembly will hear a bill, already passed in the state Senate (31-5), that would prohibit colleges or the NCAA from denying students the... Read More

“If a local government wants to make that private area, that may have been private for a long time, open to the public, there has to be a process to do that,” one of the bill sponsors, state Sen. Kathleen Passidomo, R-Naples, told The News Service of Florida. “This customary use doctrine has always contemplated that you go to court and ask the judge to authorize you to do that … All the bill does is say, look, we need to create a process so that we don’t have chaos.” ... Read More

“I would like to just ask that we limit our questions to the rules that we are addressing today, as opposed to the questions related to HB 21 or other impacts that we will be addressing,” said Laura MacLafferty, AHCA bureau chief of Health Facility Regulation. “We will have rules that address those services in the very near future on the licensure side, as opposed to the CON rules we are addressing today.” ... Read More