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Where’s the remote?! Channel 18 is new ABC home for ‘GMA,’ ‘General Hospital,’ Canes-Notre Dame football

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on August 4, 2025. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, Local News.

Heads up, South Florida, a historic change is coming to your TV channel guide on Monday: Say hello to Channel 18. The new channel, scheduled to debut at 4:30 a.m., comes as WPLG-TV’s Channel 10 officially ends its nearly seven-decade relationship with the ABC network after a contract stalemate between the Berkshire Hathaway-owned television station and the Disney-affiliated network. In a corresponding move, ABC struck a deal with WSVN’s parent company, Sunbeam Television, to broadcast network programming on the new ABC Miami, available on Channel 18 over the air and on Comcast, AT&T...

Two tropical disturbances, one near North Carolina, being monitored

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on August 3, 2025. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Hurricane forecast, Hurricane Tracks, Latest Headlines, News, Storms & Hurricanes, Weather.

Two areas of low pressure, one off the mid-Atlantic United States coastline and another set to emerge off of western Africa, were being monitored on Sunday night, forecasters said. The disturbance currently over water has formed a frontal boundary about 150 miles off the coast of North Carolina, according to the National Hurricane Center. It was moving at 10 mph at a east-northeasterly direction away from land as of 8 p.m. Sunday and has been given a 30% chance of developing over the next 48 hours. The other area being monitored, according to the NHC, is expected to emerge into the far...

Suspended Broward Judge Gary Farmer submits letter of resignation

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on August 2, 2025. Posted in Crime and Public Safety, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, News.

Broward Judge Gary Farmer submitted a resignation letter on Friday, months after he was suspended without pay until further notice for inappropriate comments he made from the bench. Farmer submitted the letter to Chief Administrative Judge Carol-Lisa Phillips, she confirmed to the South Florida Sun Sentinel on Friday night. The proper procedure requires that he submit the letter to Gov. Ron DeSantis. It was unclear Friday night whether the governor’s office also received Farmer’s letter, but he made his intentions abundantly clear. Efforts to reach Farmer and his attorney by cellphone...

Marlins trade Jesus Sanchez to Houston Astros for pitcher, two prospects

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on August 1, 2025. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, Miami Marlins, MLB, Sports.

The Marlins parted ways with their longest tenured outfielder on Thursday, sending Jesus Sanchez to Houston less than two hours before Major League Baseball’s trade deadline. In return, Miami acquired right-handed pitcher Ryan Gusto and two prospects — shortstop Chase Jaworsky (rated by MLB.com as Houston’s No. 13 prospect) and outfielder Esmil Valencia. Gusto, 26, is 7-4 with a 4.92 ERA in 24 games and 14 starts for Houston in his first major league season. He has allowed 95 hits, with 28 walks, in 86 innings, with 87 strikeouts. To read the full report, click here for miamiherald.com

South Florida woman arrested in deadly Fort Lauderdale hit-and-run crash

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on July 31, 2025. Posted in Crime and Public Safety, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, News.

Months after a hit-and-run crash in Fort Lauderdale left one person dead and three others injured, a South Florida woman has been arrested on more than a dozen charges. Beverly Slaughter, 25, of Opa-locka in Miami-Dade County, was arrested on Tuesday in connection with a two-car crash near West Sunrise Boulevard and Northwest 24th Avenue in April, court records show. Shortly after 1 a.m. on April 29, Slaughter was speeding in a 2021 Mercedes-Benz, S-Class sedan on West Sunrise Boulevard while approaching the intersection, a probable cause affidavit said. A 2021 Nissan Altima made a left...

Delray pilot was one of 7 taken to hospital after Palm Beach County plane crash

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on July 31, 2025. Posted in Crime and Public Safety, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, Local News, News.

A pilot from Delray Beach was one of two people aboard a small plane that hit a palm tree, then crashed into a moving car with five people inside near John Prince Park Campground in Lake Worth Beach on Monday. The Orlican M8 Eagle took off from the nearby Palm Beach County Park Airport in Lantana shortly before 4:30 p.m., minutes before it crashed. After taking off, the plane made a turn to the north, experienced some sort of issue and started to fall from the sky, according to a Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office report released Wednesday. All seven people avoided any serious injury. The...

8.8-magnitude earthquake causes tsunami in Russia and Japan, sets off warnings for Alaska and Hawaii

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on July 30, 2025. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, National News, News.

By MARI YAMAGUCHI TOKYO (AP) — One of the world’s strongest earthquakes struck Russia’s Far East early Wednesday, an 8.8-magnitude temblor that set off a tsunami in the northern Pacific region and prompted warnings for Alaska, Hawaii and other coasts south toward New Zealand. Tsunami warning sirens blared Tuesday in Honolulu and people moved to higher ground. The Japan Meteorological Agency said a tsunami measuring 40 centimeters (1.3 feet) was detected in Tokachi, on the southern coast of Hokkaido, the northernmost of the country’s main islands. The Russian areas nearest the quake’s...

Judge dismisses Trump administration lawsuit against Chicago ‘sanctuary’ laws

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on July 26, 2025. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, National News, National Politics, Network, News, Politics.

CHICAGO (AP) — A judge in Illinois dismissed a Trump administration lawsuit Friday that sought to disrupt limits Chicago imposes on cooperation between federal immigration agents and local police. Related Articles Longtime lawmaker shapes the debate as Arizona grapples with dwindling water supplies Democrats and advocates criticize Trump’s executive order on homelessness House ethics panel tells Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to pay more for Met Gala attendance Judge blocks Trump’s birthright...

New tropical system could emerge from area of low pressure near Florida, forecasters say

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on July 23, 2025. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Hurricane forecast, Hurricane Tracks, Latest Headlines, News, Storms & Hurricanes, Weather.

An area of low pressure near the southeastern coast of the United States could become the next named storm of the 2025 hurricane season, the National Hurricane Center said Tuesday night. The system is forecast to move west-southwest over part of Florida and into the north-central part of the Gulf. If it remains far enough offshore, conditions could be conducive to development, the hurricane center said. The system is likely to move over land by the weekend, the hurricane center said. Still, it could bring heavy rains to parts of the northern Gulf coast, including the Florida Panhandle. As...

Merrill, Maldonado help Padres hold off Marlins

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on July 22, 2025. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, Miami Marlins, MLB, Sports.

By ALANIS THAMES MIAMI — Jackson Merrill and Martín Maldonado had run-scoring hits in the second inning and the San Diego Padres held on to beat the Miami Marlins 2-1 on Monday night. Merrill had an RBI single that scored Xander Bogaerts. Maldonado followed with a double down the left field line off Eury Pérez (3-3) that scored Merrill from first and put San Diego up 2-0. Miami’s Kyle Stowers hit a solo homer off Padres starter Randy Vásquez that made it 2-1 in the fourth. Stowers, who has an MLB-best 12 homers since June 22, connected on a 1-0 changeup and sent it 400 feet to left-center...