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Firefighters quickly extinguish mobile home fire in Pembroke Park likely caused by storms

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:16:10 GMT

Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue successfully extinguished a mobile home fire that broke out in Pembroke Park, Tuesday morning. The fire occurred in the La Siesta Mobile Home Park, located on the south side of Hallandale Beach Blvd., just west of I-95.Firefighters arrived just before 9 a.m. to find heavy smoke billowing from the front of the mobile home. Prompt action allowed them to aggressively attack the flames, resulting in the fire being fully extinguished within approximately 20 minutes. Their efforts also prevented the fire from spreading to two neighboring homes, located just a few feet away.https://twitter.com/browardsheriff/status/1666079136815906820?s=20Two adult occupants of the affected mobile home had already evacuated safely before the firefighters arrived. Both individuals were not injured in the incident.According to preliminary investigations, the fire may have been started by powerful storms that swept through the area earlier. Lightning activity was observed in the vi...

Holtz Children’s Hospital at University of Miami, Jackson Memorial Medical Center designated as Level IV NICU

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:16:10 GMT

The Newborn Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Holtz Children’s Hospital at the University of Miami along with the Women’s Hospital at Jackson Memorial Medical Center were designated as a Level IV NICU by the state of Florida. A Level IV designation is the highest level a NICU can achieve, which means that Holtz Children’s must meet all capabilities of a Level III NICU. They are able to care for infants born earlier than 32 weeks gestation and weighing less than 1,500 grams.Only a total of five pediatric hospitals have been able to achieve this designation in the region.“The ability to care for the most critically ill and vulnerable patients in our neonatal intensive care unit has always been one of our top priorities,” said Joanne Ruggiero, senior vice president and chief executive officer of Holtz Children’s and The Women’s Hospital at Jackson Memorial.Holtz Children’s NICU has had some of the most successful outcomes in the country and it is the largest Level IV NICU in the st...

Miami ranks among cities requiring six-figure salaries to avoid rent-burden, FAU study finds

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:16:10 GMT

A recent report by researchers from Florida Atlantic University, along with two other schools, highlights the escalating challenges faced by renters in several U.S. markets. The study reveals that the average renter in 11 major cities, including Miami, must earn a six-figure annual salary to avoid being classified as rent-burdened.According to the findings, Miami ranks among the cities where renters need to earn at least $100,000 per year to evade the rent-burdened label. Other cities requiring a similar income threshold include San Jose, California; New York; San Francisco; San Diego; Oxnard, California; Boston; Los Angeles; Bridgeport, Connecticut; Honolulu; and Riverside, California.Rent-burdened consumers are those who allocate 30 percent or more of their incomes towards rent, which often leaves them struggling to cover other essential expenses such as food and medication. Severe rent burden is defined as spending 50 percent or more of one’s income on rent.Ken H. Johnson, ...

Western leaders accuse Russia of war crime over dam destruction

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:16:10 GMT

Damage to Ukraine’s Nova Kakhovka dam, which unleashed massive flooding in the Kherson region, could be a potential war crime, EU and Ukrainian leaders said Tuesday.“The destruction of the Kakhovka dam today put thousands of civilians at risk and causes severe environmental damage,” NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said at a press conference from the Bucharest Nine (B9) summit in Slovakia. “This is an outrageous act, which demonstrates — once again — the brutality of Russia’s war against Ukraine.” He added that the damage to the dam demonstrated that the war Russian President Vladimir Putin unleashed on Ukraine “is totally unacceptable and a blatant violation of international law.”German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said he saw the attack as a “new dimension” of Russia’s war. While he avoided explicitly saying the Kremlin’s forces had destroyed the dam, he said the attack “fits...

PGA Tour announces shock reconciliation with Saudi-backed breakaway LIV Golf

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:16:10 GMT

(CNN) — The US-based PGA Tour is set to merge with the Saudi-backed breakaway LIV Golf, ending a feud that has dogged the men’s professional game for the past year.PGA made the shock announcement on Tuesday, saying a new partnership between LIV and the DP World Tour would “unify the game of golf.”“The parties have signed an agreement that combines PIF’s golf-related commercial businesses and rights (including LIV Golf) with the commercial businesses and rights of the PGA Tour and DP World Tour into a new, collectively owned, for-profit entity,” the statement read.The LIV Golf series, backed by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), officially launched in June 2022, with participating players subsequently barred from competing in PGA Tour events.The two rival tours have since been involved in a series of legal disputes, with all pending litigation mutually ended under the new agreement. “After two years of disruption and distraction, this is a historic day for the game we ...

No one hurt after car crashes into daycare in Quincy

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:16:10 GMT

A driver crashed into a building housing a daycare in Quincy Tuesday, drawing an emergency response and prompting an evacuation of the building, according to Quincy police. Police said the crash happened Tuesday morning at My Learning Center on Adams Street. While preschool classes were going on at the time, police said no one was near the area where the car hit the building and no one was hurt. The car involved in this crash appeared to have been removed from the scene as of around 9:30 a.m., leaving behind some visible damage to an outside building wall and window. In an update around 9:40 a.m., police said emergency crews were in the process of clearing the scene after the city’s building department found the building was “not compromised.”

Jets cancel next week’s mandatory minicamp in favor of extra rest ahead of Hall of Fame game

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:16:10 GMT

The Jets were scheduled to hold a mandatory minicamp next week but have opted to take an early vacation instead.Jets head coach Robert Saleh told the media on Wednesday morning that Gang Green will skip the three-day session next week. Basically, the Jets will not hold the mandatory minicamp next week because the team (along with the Cleveland Browns) will report to training camp a week earlier than the rest of the league since they will be playing in the annual preseason Hall of Fame game on Aug. 3.“Guys need to get away,” Saleh said. “We’ve been here, they’ve put in a really good offseason, all the guys have since April. So, they’ve been here.“Just to give the guys an extra week of rest. You need a week off and you gotta rev back up and get ready for the season. Having an extra week, taking a week off, there’s a lot of things that can mess up the flow.”It makes sense why the Jets are skipping next week’s session. They wou...

PGA Tour, Europe to merge with Saudis and end LIV Golf feud

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:16:10 GMT

By DOUG FERGUSON (AP Golf Writer)The PGA Tour ended its expensive fight with Saudi Arabia’s golf venture and now is joining forces with it, making a stunning announcement Tuesday of a merger that creates a commercial operation with the Public Investment Fund and the European tour.As part of the deal, the sides immediately are dropping all lawsuits involving LIV Golf.From the golf side, still to be determined is how players like Brooks Koepka and Dustin Johnson can rejoin the PGA Tour after defecting last year for signing bonuses reported to be in the $150 million range.From the commercial side, the governor of Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund joins the PGA Tour board of directors and leads the new venture as chairman, though the PGA Tour will have a majority stake.The announcement comes a year after LIV Golf began. PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan was at the Canadian Open that week and said pointedly about any player who joined LIV or was thinking about it: “H...

LGBTQ+ Americans are under attack, Human Rights Campaign declares in state of emergency warning

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:16:10 GMT

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM (Associated Press/Report for America)The Human Rights Campaign declared a state of emergency for LGBTQ+ people in the U.S. on Tuesday and released a guidebook summarizing laws it deems discriminatory in each state, along with “know your rights” information and resources to help people relocate to states with stronger LGBTQ+ protections.Sounding the alarm about the current political environment, the nation’s largest organization devoted to the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer Americans said advisories warning against travel to dangerous places aren’t enough to help people already living in so-called hostile states. Just a few days into Pride Month, the campaign said it’s taking action in response to an “unprecedented and dangerous” spike in discriminatory legislation sweeping state houses this year, with more than 525 anti-LGBTQ+ bills introduced and more than 70 signed into law so far in 2023 ̵...

Oscar winner Cuba Gooding Jr. settles civil sex abuse case, averting trial

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:16:10 GMT

By LARRY NEUMEISTER (Associated Press)NEW YORK (AP) — Just as a trial was to begin, it was revealed Tuesday that Cuba Gooding Jr. has settled accusations that he raped a woman in a New York City hotel a decade ago, according to court records. The actor had insisted through lawyers that his encounter with the woman was consensual after the two met at a nearby restaurant.The trial was to start with jury selection in New York federal court as the Oscar-winning “Jerry Maguire” star faced allegations that he met the woman in Manhattan, persuaded her to join him at a hotel, and convinced her to stop at his room so he could change clothing.Minutes after jurors were to begin assembling in a courtroom, a calendar entry in the official court record said: “TRIAL OFF.” It added: “Reason for cancellation (on consent): the parties have resolved the matter.”The woman had proceeded anonymously until last week, when Judge Paul A. Crotty ruled that she would ...