Former child welfare worker guilty of endangerment in death of Illinois 5-year-old

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on October 14, 2023. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, National News, Network, News.

Robert McCoppin | Chicago Tribune In what is believed to be the first successful prosecution of its kind in Illinois, a former child welfare worker was found guilty Friday of child endangerment in the beating death of 5-year-old AJ Freund in Crystal Lake, but his supervisor was found not guilty. Carlos Acosta, who was the case investigator for the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, was found guilty in McHenry County court of endangering the life or health of a child. He was found not guilty of reckless conduct. Lake County Judge George Strickland said he could not find Acosta’s...

Second biggest US lottery prize is up for grabs in Powerball drawing

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on October 12, 2023. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, National News, Network, News.

By JIM SALTER (Associated Press) ST. LOUIS (AP) — After 35 straight drawings without a big winner, Powerball players on Wednesday are lining up for a shot at a near-record jackpot worth an estimated $1.73 billion. If winning numbers are drawn, it would be the second largest U.S. lottery prize, topped only by the $2.04 billion Powerball won by a player in California last November. The previous No. 2 was a $1.586 billion Powerball with three winners in California, Florida and Tennessee on Jan. 13, 2016. Powerball’s terrible odds of 1 in 292.2 million are designed to generate big jackpots, with...

Dick Butkus, legendary Chicago Bears linebacker and Hall of Famer, dies at 80

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on October 6, 2023. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, National News, Network, News, NFL, Obituaries, Sports.

Fred Mitchell | Chicago Tribune Dick Butkus, the player who perhaps best epitomized the tough and determined identity of the Chicago Bears, has died, the Tribune confirmed Thursday. He was 80. The Butkus family said Thursday he died “peacefully in his sleep overnight at home” in Malibu, California. A product of Chicago’s working-class South Side and the University of Illinois, Butkus became a fierce Pro Football Hall of Fame linebacker before embarking on a modest but enduring television and acting career in Hollywood. “After football, it was difficult for me to find what I liked second best,”...

Multiple people shot in ongoing ‘active shooter situation’ at Morgan State University, Baltimore Police say

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on October 4, 2023. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, National News, Network, News.

By Dan Belson, Baltimore Sun Baltimore Police are encouraging people to avoid the area of Morgan State University and those nearby to shelter in place Tuesday night after multiple people were shot on campus. The department said that multiple people were shot on the campus. Police tweeted that officers are on the scene of the situation, which the school said was related to a report of shots being fired, on the 1700 block of Argonne Drive, near the Thurgood Marshall Apartments and close to the Northeast District Police Station. Special agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives...

Rep. Matt Gaetz files motion to oust Speaker Kevin McCarthy, throwing House into new turmoil

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on October 3, 2023. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, National News, News, Politics.

By FARNOUSH AMIRI and KEVIN FREKING (Associated Press) WASHINGTON (AP) — Speaker Kevin McCarthy is facing an extraordinary referendum on his leadership of the House after a conservative member of his own Republican majority, a longtime critic, moved to launch a vote to oust him from the helm. Late Monday, Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., rose in the chamber as the House was almost done for the day to file the motion — a resolution that would set a snap vote in coming days that even Gaetz acknowledged may not have enough support to remove the speaker from the job. “I have enough Republicans where at...

DeSantis knocks Trump, GOP moves on from Reagan and other presidential debate takeaways

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on September 28, 2023. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, National News, News, Politics.

By MICHELLE L. PRICE and NICHOLAS RICCARDI (Associated Press) Seven Republican presidential hopefuls gathered at the Reagan Library in California on Wednesday for the second of the party’s primary debates. The contest’s dominant front-runner — former President Donald Trump — skipped the event again. With less than four months until the Iowa caucuses officially jumpstart the GOP nomination process, the pressure is building on Trump’s rivals to show they can emerge as a genuine alternative. Here are some early takeaways from the debate: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis had an aggressive start, using...

DeSantis’ move to pull Sagemont scholarships: Concern about Communist China ties or a political stunt?

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on September 26, 2023. Posted in Business, Education, Election, Florida News, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, Local News, National News, News, Politics, Ron DeSantis.

Florida’s move to cut off a high-end private school in Weston from state subsidies to parents has raised political and policy questions: Were the schools really an “imminent threat to the health, safety, and welfare” of the students and the public? Or was the state’s move a political stunt to bolster Gov. Ron DeSantis’ struggling presidential campaign? At least 229 students were receiving taxpayer-funded scholarships at the two Sagemont Preparatory School campuses in Weston that were targeted late Friday by DeSantis for alleged ties to the Chinese Communist Party. His office on Monday referred...

Five Americans detained in Iran walk free, released in deal for frozen Iranian assets

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on September 19, 2023. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, National News, News, World News.

By JON GAMBRELL, LUJAIN JO and MATTHEW LEE (Associated Press) DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Five Americans detained for years in Iran walked off a plane and into freedom Monday, most arm-in-arm, as part of a politically risky deal that saw President Joe Biden agree to the release of nearly $6 billion in frozen Iranian assets owed by a third country, South Korea. The successful negotiations for the Americans’ freedom brought Biden profuse thanks from their families but heat from Republican presidential rivals and other opponents for the monetary arrangement with one of America’s top adversaries. “Today,...

Rolling Stone co-founder Jann Wenner removed from Rock Hall leadership after controversial comments

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on September 18, 2023. Posted in Entertainment, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, National News, News, Things To Do, World News.

By MARK KENNEDY (AP Entertainment Writer) NEW YORK (AP) — Jann Wenner, who co-founded Rolling Stone magazine and also was a co-founder of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, has been removed from the hall’s board of directors after making disparaging comments toward Black and female musicians. He apologized within hours. “Jann Wenner has been removed from the Board of Directors of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation,” the hall said Saturday, a day after Wenner’s comments were published in a New York Times interview. Wenner created a firestorm doing publicity for his new book “The Masters,”...

Prosecutors seek narrow gag order on Trump in federal election case after ‘inflammatory’ comments

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on September 16, 2023. Posted in Crime and Public Safety, Florida News, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, National News, News, Politics.

By ERIC TUCKER (Associated Press) WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors are seeking an order that would prevent Donald Trump from making “inflammatory” and “intimidating” comments about witnesses, lawyers and other people involved in the criminal case charging the former president with scheming to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Special counsel Jack Smith’s team said in a motion filed Friday that such a “narrow, well-defined” order was necessary to preserve the integrity of the case and to avoid prejudicing potential jurors. Prosecutors had foreshadowed for weeks their concerns about...

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