A employee who had just wrapped up her shift was hit by a car and killed in the hospital’s parking lot, authorities said. The fatal crash at 2930 Cleveland Clinic Blvd. happened about 5:30 p.m. Wednesday. The woman, who was a mother to adult children, was in a crosswalk that led from one parking lot to another, said Battalion Chief […]
Wildlife officials are now calling the 60-pound cat it tranquilized and trapped in a residential Parkland neighborhood on New Year’s Day a puma, rather than a panther. And they say it likely wasn’t a wild beast after all. The big cat wore a black collar, not an electronic tracking collar, leading wildlife officers to believe it may be an escaped […]
As he took in the scene around him, moments after he’d been formally introduced as the 25th football coach in history, Manny Diaz couldn’t help but take a breath and reflect. For the 9-year-old boy who stayed awake well past his bedtime 35 years earlier to watch Miami safety Kenny Calhoun bat down the pass that helped the Hurricanes clinch […]
People stood. People cheered. Manny Diaz won his first day. He sat smiling between his athletic director, Blake James, and the most public board of trustee member, David Epstein, after offering a winning line Wednesday morning upon being “There was a time we called this ‘QB U,’ ” Diaz said. “That can happen again.” The first five rows of properly […]
A Senate Republican on Wednesday filed a proposal that would make it illegal for people to smoke on public beaches. Sen. Joe Gruters, R-Sarasota, filed the measure (SB 218) for consideration during the legislative session that starts March 5. Under the proposal, law-enforcement officers would be able to issue citations to people who smoke on public beaches. Penalties would be […]
Daryl Dragon, the male half of the musical group The Captain and Tennille, died Wednesday of renal failure. He was 76. Dragon began his musical career playing keyboard with the Beach Boys in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, during which time he earned his iconic nickname from lead singer Mike Love — Dragon frequently donned a captain’s hat onstage […]
has agreed to stop warning its cruise passengers about increased crime in Nassau and identifying parts of the city to avoid. Dionisio D’Aguilar, minister of tourism and aviation for the island nation, told the Nassau Tribune this week that he employed “gentle nudging” to persuade Royal Caribbean to drop an “unwarranted” passenger advisory being distributed to disembarking passengers of the […]
