Dave Hyde: Florida Panthers show might and muscle to New York in Game 1 win

Well, is there anything more the Florida Panthers could do to introduce their tough and timely brand of postseason hockey to New York? Go silence Times Square? Hip-check the Statue of Liberty? Their 3-0 win over the New York Rangers Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals should come with a trademark for what they do and how they win right down to pressing the Rangers into making a late mistake for an own goal in the final minutes to drop the curtain If anyone didn’t know the Panthers, if... Read More

The 2024 Silver Knight winners announced at Miami gala honoring top high-school seniors

One student used artificial intelligence to map food insecurity and detect breast cancer. Another student used her passion for theater to perform for children who were hospitalized. A third created … Click to Continue » ... Read More

Buy now, pay later companies must adhere to credit card standards, consumer agency says

By CORA LEWIS (Associated Press) NEW YORK (AP) — Buy now, pay later companies must provide consumers with the same legal rights and protections as credit card lenders do, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said Wednesday in a new rule. That includes the right to demand a refund and to dispute transactions. The agency began an inquiry into the short-term lending industry two years ago, and it issued the rule in response to ongoing consumer complaints, it said. Here’s what you need... Read More

Designer catches invasive pythons and transforms them into fashion

The first time Elle Barbeito skinned an invasive Burmese python she almost lost her lunch. Twice. Initially she nicked the snake’s stomach with the razor and semi-digested prey spilled out. Things got even more disgusting farther down the digestive system. Despite the disgust, Barbeito was after beauty. And she found it, not only in the edgy fashion pieces she makes out of invasive Burmese pythons that she and her father catch, but in the larger process of removing a magnificent but highly... Read More

Heavyweight airliners — including Donald Trump’s — clip their wings in minor South Florida airport incidents

In the space of 10 days, two of South Florida’s international airports have been the scenes of big airliners — including the Boeing 757 used by former President Donald Trump — involved in separate wing-clipping incidents while they rumbled their way to remote parking places. The Federal Aviation Administration acknowledged Wednesday it is investigating both episodes, neither of which involved any injuries. The most recent incident involved an Atlas Air Boeing 747 cargo jet. Its right... Read More

Judge sides with Fort Lauderdale man who complained neighbor’s yacht was too big for lot

FORT LAUDERDALE — Say your neighbor has a yacht so big that it dwarfs the dock behind his home. Do you call the city to complain? Michael Meldeau did. It wound up getting him sued by one Steven Howell, owner of the yacht. The two men live on Delmar Place in Fort Lauderdale’s upscale Las Olas Isles, just north of Las Olas and west of the Intracoastal. The yearslong feud isn’t your run-of-the-mill neighborhood dispute. The lawsuit, filed four years ago, touched on not only property rights... Read More

Man drowns off Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, months after girl died in sand

A man died Wednesday after he drowned in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, three months after a 7-year-old girl who was digging in the sand became completely buried in a hole at the lifeguard-less beach and died. Lauderdale-by-the-Sea deputies and Pompano Beach Fire Rescue responded to 4500 El Mar Drive shortly before 1:30 p.m. Wednesday after the regional communications center was called about a possible drowning, the Broward Sheriff’s Office said. Good Samaritans were attempting to save the man’s... Read More