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Palm Beach County re-elects mayor and two new faces to the commission

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on November 6, 2024. Posted in Election 2024, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, News, Politics.

Palm Beach County will keep its mayor and welcome two new faces to the county commission. Current Democratic mayor Maria Sachs led the way in the polls Tuesday night with 795 of 799 precincts reporting as of 9:30 p.m., defeating her Republican opponent John Fischer. Sachs will continue representing District 5 on the commission, which encompasses West Boca and West Delray. She ran again to continue the projects she said she began during her first term. Sachs said her priorities heading into another mayoral term will be affordable and workforce housing, smart development and alleviating the...

Cox, Stern locked in close race to replace Palm Beach State Attorney Aronberg

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on November 6, 2024. Posted in Crime and Public Safety, Election 2024, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, Local News, News, Politics.

Democrat Alexcia Cox and Republican Sam Stern were locked in a tight race for Palm Beach State Attorney Tuesday night, with early and absentee voting results giving Cox a head start and Stern closing the gap to within a percentage point with most of the Election Day votes tallied. The race was destined to defy easy prediction. While Democrats hold a registration advantage in the county, Republicans have recently shown the ability to carry a majority. Gov. Ron DeSantis defeated Democratic challenger Charlie Crist in Palm Beach two years ago. This year, with Palm Beach resident Donald Trump...

Gossett-Seidman wins reelection in House District 91 race in Palm Beach County

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on November 6, 2024. Posted in Election 2024, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, Local News, News, Politics.

State Rep. Peggy Gossett-Seidman, R-Highland Beach, won a second term Tuesday in Florida’s House District 91 race. She defeated Democratic candidate Jay Shooster. District 91 represents a large swatch of southern Palm Beach County, including Boca Raton, Highland Beach and reaching farther west toward West Boca. In questionnaires provided to the South Florida Sun Sentinel’s Editorial Board, Gossett-Seidman said the three most important issues facing the legislative district are “inflation, traffic congestion and infrastructure failures, and property tax and property rental tax reform.”...

Another loss to Georgia, DJ Lagway’s injured and Billy Napier’s luck goes from bad to worse | Commentary

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on November 3, 2024. Posted in Columnists, Florida Gators, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, Opinion, Sports.

How do you not feel bad for embattled Florida Gators coach Billy Napier? For some reason, a song from Hee Haw – the old cornpone country variety show – popped into my head as I looked down on the field Saturday and saw the grim-faced Napier as his injured quarterback DJ Lagway was carted away with an inspired Gator team leading mighty Georgia. “Gloom, despair, and agony on me,Deep, dark depression, excessive misery.If it weren’t for bad luck, I’d have no luck at all,Gloom, despair, and agony on me.” That song pretty much sums up what could be Napier’s fateful final season at Florida. If it...

Dylan Rizk goes from benchwarmer to savior with win over Arizona

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on November 3, 2024. Posted in College Sports, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, Sports, UCF Knights.

As Dylan Rizk exited the UCF locker room at FCB Mortgage Stadium, a small group of family and friends greeted him with a boisterous cheer. The redshirt freshman quarterback had plenty of reasons to celebrate following his first career start on Saturday, leading the Knights to a 56-12 win over visiting Arizona. The victory snapped a five-game losing streak and kept the program’s record in Space Games a perfect 8-0. For Rizk, the fourth quarterback to start a game this season, it all came down to patience. “I always knew there was a plan for me,” Rizk said. “Coach Gus [Malzahn] and Coach...

South Florida radio personality, Hollywood commission candidate Jill Tracey dies

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on November 2, 2024. Posted in Election 2024, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, News, News Obituaries, Politics.

Jill Tracey Folmar, a well-known South Florida radio personality and current candidate for Hollywood city commission, has died at age 60. Originally from Detroit, Jill Tracey, as she was known professionally, was a long-time personality on Miami’s WHQT Hot 105 and had been in the radio industry for three decades, including on WEDR 99Jamz. She was in a three-way race with Peter Hernandez and Richard Walker for Hollywood’s District 2 commission seat in next week’s election. Throughout her career, Tracey served as news director at Hot 105 and was a former president of the National Association...

Florida surfer is bit by a shark at the same beach he was bitten at 11 years ago

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on November 1, 2024. Posted in Florida News, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, News.

STUART — A Florida man is recovering from a shark bite just over a decade after being bitten at the same beach. Cole Taschman, 28, was surfing with two friends at Bathtub Beach in Stuart last Friday afternoon when the attack occurred, Treasure Coast Newspapers reported. “As I was paddling against the current, my feet are behind me, they were laying flat on the board, and an about 8- or 9-foot either bull shark or tiger shark came up behind me and snatched my feet,” Taschman said. Three tendons were completely torn and one was partially torn in the attack. Two surgeries have left the fishing...

Dolphins prepare for Josh Allen, believe they can get the ball out: ‘He just kind of hangs it out there like a loaf of bread’

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on November 1, 2024. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, Miami Dolphins, NFL, Sports.

MIAMI GARDENS — What’s scarier than the thought that the Miami Dolphins, with the season hanging on by a thread, need a win against a team they lost to, 31-10, 52 days earlier — not to mention have lost against in 12 of their last 13 meetings? It’s that the Buffalo Bills won by three touchdowns earlier this season with star quarterback Josh Allen barely having to do anything. In that three-touchdown decision, which started the current Dolphins run of five losses in the past six games, Allen merely went 13 of 19 for 139 yards and a touchdown. He didn’t run much, either (two carries for 2...

Who has the edge? Dolphins at Bills, the dominant divisional foe

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on October 31, 2024. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, Miami Dolphins, NFL, Sports.

Here’s a look at how the Miami Dolphins (2-5) and Buffalo Bills (6-2) match up in six key areas ahead of Sunday’s Week 9 game at Highmark Stadium (1 p.m., CBS): When the Dolphins run: The past three games for Miami: 193, 188 and 150 rushing yards. It’s something that is now a consistent strength from a yardage standpoint, but the Dolphins could still stand to improve situationally on the ground. While De’Von Achane had 97 yards on 10 carries with a long of 47 in last Sunday’s win over the Arizona Cardinals, the question becomes if coach Mike McDaniel will turn to rookie Jaylen Wright (two...

Winderman’s view: Until there is a quality Heat win, doubts are justified, as Knicks showed

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on October 31, 2024. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, Miami Heat, Miami Heat Blog, NBA, Sports.

MIAMI — Observations and other notes of interest from Wednesday night’s 116-107 loss to the New York Knicks: – The NBA schedule can tease. – Including the victories over the Hornets and Pistons that delivered the Heat to Wednesday night’s game at 2-1. – Then came the challenge of something real, in the Knicks. – Just like the challenge in the opener against the Magic. – Loss. – Loss. – Yes, a move above over .500 seems in the cards against the how-low-can-we-go tanking Wizards in Mexico City. – But that hardly would be a statement. – What follows, however, could be telling. – Starting with...