By TIM REYNOLDS FORT LAUDERDALE — The Stanley Cup champion Florida Panthers are extending their operating agreement with Broward County for five more years, ensuring that the team remains in the market through 2033 and likely well beyond. County commissioners on Tuesday unanimously approved the revised terms, which include the Panthers giving $51.5 million to eliminate remaining debt on the county-owned arena where the team plays. The current deal runs through 2028. The updated terms also... Read More
Half of Pastors Plan to Vote for Trump, Nearly a Quarter Wouldn’t Say
Like other Americans, pastors are deciding who they’ll vote for in the November election. Compared to previous elections, however, they’re much more hesitant to share their preference. Almost all US Protestant pastors (97%) plan to vote in the 2024 presidential election, according to a Lifeway Research study conducted August 8–September 3, 2024. But almost a quarter (23%) refused to answer the question of whom they’ll cast their ballot for. Few felt the same hesitancy in... Read More
‘Put it back in Miami’: Broward residents urge Miami-Dade to not build new incinerator near Miramar
Miami-Dade commissioners were poised Tuesday to make a decision on the placement of the incinerator, and one of those sites is less than a mile from Miramar, the site of a decommissioned airfield, near Krome Avenue and U.S. 27 in Miami-Dade. Originally Published: September 17, 2024 at 12:22 p.m. ... Read More
Alondes Williams off to Clippers, follows Cain, Swider as last of Heat ’23-24 two-way players to move on
MIAMI – All three of the Miami Heat’s two-way players from last season have now formally relocated, with guard Alondes Williams going to training camp with the Los Angeles Clippers. Williams, who had his restricted-free-agency qualifying offer pulled by the Heat in July, was among those who helped the Heat to the championship at the NBA Las Vegas Summer League in July. Williams, 25, took a camp tryout contract with the Clippers, who are reworking their roster after the offseason... Read More
Teenager shot to death at Wilton Manors home
WILTON MANORS — A 16-year-old boy was shot and killed at a multi-family residence on Monday afternoon. The shooting happened about 2:30 p.m. at the building in the 400 block of Northwest 25th Street, according to a Broward Sheriff’s Office news release. Officers from the Wilton Manors Police Department, Fort Lauderdale Police Department and Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue found the teenager, identified as Christopher Granados, at the residence, and he was taken to a hospital where he was... Read More
Trump will soon be able to sell shares in Truth Social’s parent company. What’s at stake?
By STAN CHOE and BARBARA ORTUTAY NEW YORK (AP) — For all the debate about just how rich former President Donald Trump is, one thing is clear: His ownership stake in Trump Media & Technology Group makes him a billionaire. The company behind the Truth Social platform is worth more than $3.5 billion on Wall Street, and Trump owns more than half of it. So far, Trump and other insiders in the company known as TMTG have been unable to cash in because a “lock-up agreement” has prevented... Read More
Coming soon: Holy Avocado! A new avocado-centric, fast-food spot headed to Fort Lauderdale; Harlem’s Patsy’s Pizzeria landing in Boca
Other new restaurants headed to South Florida include Oceana Coffee in Lake Park, Carolina Ale House in Deerfield Beach, and another Death By Pizza in Delray Beach. Subscribe to continue reading this article. Already subscribed? To login in, click here. Originally Published: September 17, 2024 at 6:05 a.m. ... Read More
Arrested Filipino Pastor Apollo Quiboloy Claims He’s the Messiah
Apollo Quiboloy called himself the “Appointed Son of God.” But to Filipino and American authorities, he was a man wanted for years on charges of sexual abuse and human trafficking. Quiboloy, the 74-year-old leader of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ, surrendered to authorities on September 8 after 2,000 security officers descended on the religious sect’s massive complex in Davao City in the Philippines. Thousands of followers gathered at the 74-acre compound to protest Quiboloy’s arrest as... Read More
South Korea’s Missions Success Won’t Be Its Future
Beginning in 2002, South Korean national Somang Son served as a missionary in New Delhi, India, for five years. In 2015, she embarked on another mission trip to the southern Indian city of Bengaluru. It was a new city and a different team, but one thing remained the same: She was the youngest missionary there. Son, 45, sees this same dynamic playing out in her work as a member care coordinator in a mission agency that reaches out to Muslims. “In the last three or four years, we never had... Read More
The Rural Cambodian Community that Fostered 76 Children
In 2008, Keo Ravy and Amy Sullivan of Children in Families (CIF) drove to an orphanage outside of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to pick up two toddlers with severe developmental delays. They then brought the children to a rural village where they would meet their new foster families. In the car, four-year-old Sam Ang, who was blind and could not yet eat solids, suddenly started violently banging his head against the car floor. Startled, Sullivan tried to stop him, unaware that due to neglect, this... Read More