Millennium 6-12 Collegiate Academy Celebrates Newly Refreshed Media Lab with High Tech Additions

Monday, September 16, 2024Millennium 6-12 Collegiate Academy is revealing its newly refreshed media lab that includes new furniture and dozens of new virtual reality headsets to support student learning. ... Read More

Rum Cake and Caribbean Black Cake Fest to sweeten up Broward Mall

This is “Small Bites,” a South Florida Sun Sentinel feature with tiny tidbits on the food and beverage scene — because we know that sometimes you just don’t have room for a long article. You want a little news brief instead, an amuse bouche of information, if you will. Enjoy! WHAT: The name of the event alone is enough to get you smackin’ your lips. The third annual Rum Cake and Caribbean Black Cake Fest is returning — appropriately enough — to the Island SPACE Caribbean Museum... Read More

Man suspected in apparent assassination attempt of Donald Trump is charged with federal gun crimes

WEST PALM BEACH — A man suspected in an apparent assassination attempt targeting former President Donald Trump was charged Monday with federal gun crimes, making his first court appearance in the final weeks of a White House race already touched by violence. Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, faces charges of possessing a firearm despite being a convicted felon and possessing a firearm with an obliterated serial number. Additional and more serious charges are possible as the investigation continues... Read More

Federal court to hear NRA challenge to rifle-purchasing age

TALLAHASSEE — A federal appeals court next month will hear arguments in the National Rifle Association’s constitutional challenge to a Florida law that prevents people under age 21 from purchasing rifles and other long guns. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last week scheduled an Oct. 22 hearing in Atlanta, as it considers a law that passed in the aftermath of the February 2018 mass shooting at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that killed 17 people. A federal... Read More

How to attend 2024 Jewish High Holy Days services for free in South Florida

For nonmembers who are looking for a way to connect to their Judaism during the High Holy Days season, there are still a few South Florida synagogues that allow Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur worshipers to enter without paying. Originally Published: September 16, 2024 at 10:11 a.m. ... Read More

Miss Manners: Is it wrong that my friend group always goes dutch?

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I have a number of friends I regularly meet for meals out, as well as for friends’ birthdays. We’ve been friends for going on 40 years and first began socializing after college, when all of us were starting our careers, paying off loans and living on shoestring budgets. Decades later, we still keep up the tradition of paying for our own meals, even on occasions such as birthdays. The group always covers the check of the person who’s celebrating the birthday, but we... Read More

Door knocking, TV ads, websites: The abortion battle heats up in Florida and it’s getting ugly

When Lucy Rodriguez knocks on a front door in West Palm Beach, she connects with the Hispanic resident about Florida’s proposed abortion protections in a way they can relate. “I’m from the Dominican Republic and I fled for freedom,” she says. “I don’t want my freedoms taken away from me by the government.” The Dominican Republic is not the only Latin American country where abortion is a crime or where oppressive governments have triggered residents to flee to South Florida, and... Read More

Daily Horoscope for September 16, 2024

General Daily Insight for September 16, 2024 Open hearts heal the quickest. The Moon begins the day in future-minded Aquarius, and will encourage some healthy rebellion when it squares off Uranus in Taurus. Luna then drifts into gentle Pisces to make an energizing trine to Mars in emotional Cancer. Today’s main focus, though, is the major opposition between Venus in Libra and Chiron in Aries at 5:29 pm EDT. This motivates us to begin healing our old wounds by willingly engaging with them... Read More