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A team of developers has announced plans for a new 24-story tower to be called W Pompano Beach Hotel & Residences. It’s one of many planned high-rises in the area. Subscribe to continue reading this article. Already subscribed? To login in, click here. Originally Published: November 20, 2024 at 2:13 PM EST ... Read More

By JEFFREY COLLINS and MAKIYA SEMINERA COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A parole board decided unanimously Wednesday that Susan Smith should remain in prison, despite her plea that God has forgiven her for killing her two young sons 30 years ago by rolling her car into a South Carolina lake while they were strapped in their car seats. It was the first parole hearing for Smith, 53, who is serving a life sentence after a jury convicted her of murder but decided to spare her of the death... Read More

With Broward CEO Shane Strum now serving as the interim chief executive at Memorial Healthcare System, restructuring is underway at all levels of the hospital system. Subscribe to continue reading this article. Already subscribed? To login in, click here. Originally Published: November 20, 2024 at 12:13 PM EST ... Read More

By SAMYA KULLAB and ILLIA NOVIKOV, Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The Biden administration will allow Ukraine to use American-supplied antipersonnel land mines to help it slow Russia’s battlefield progress in the war, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Wednesday, as the U.S. and some other Western embassies in Kyiv stayed closed after a threat of a major Russian aerial attack on the Ukrainian capital. Speaking to reporters during a trip to Laos, Austin said the... Read More

A gem of land right at downtown Boca Raton’s doorstep could get a much livelier atmosphere, complete with new shops and restaurants, as well as new housing and recreational centers. Subscribe to continue reading this article. Already subscribed? To login in, click here. Originally Published: November 20, 2024 at 4:20 AM EST ... Read More

General Daily Insight for November 20, 2024 Big egos are likely to win the day. The emotional Moon enters melodramatic Leo at 8:51 am EST and opposes inflexible Pluto in logical Aquarius shortly thereafter, setting up a tug-of-war between feelings and facts. Both hold important pieces of the puzzle. Even so, as Luna goes on to conjoin bossy Mars, we may push and shove to get our way instead of hearing others out. Letting things unfold from there might turn out to be more instructive than... Read More

WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump is nominating the billionaire professional wrestling mogul Linda McMahon to be secretary of the Education Department, tasked with overseeing an agency Trump has promised to dismantle. McMahon led the Small Business Administration during Trump’s initial term from 2017 to 2019 and twice ran unsuccessfully as a Republican for the U.S. Senate in Connecticut. McMahon served on the Connecticut Board of Education for a year starting in 2009 and has... Read More

Ever wanted to bring your dog with you aboard a cruise ship? Do you have a business focused on dogs and their families? If you answered yes to either question, you’ll be excited to learn that what’s being called the first-ever dog-friendly cruise is being planned aboard Margaritaville at Sea’s Islander out of the Port of Tampa in November 2025. And business opportunities await. Cruise ships famously don’t allow dogs other than service animals. Organizers of this cruise anticipate... Read More

By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY, JOHN HANNA and AMY BETH HANSON, Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Terry Thompson had an election to run for voters in Cascade County, Montana. Why then, she thought, was her office in Great Falls being sent mailed ballots completed by voters in places such as Wasilla, Alaska, Vancouver, Washington, and Tampa, Florida? It was only about a dozen ballots total from voters in other states. But she said it still raised concerns about the ability of the U.S. Postal... Read More