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At least 2 people killed in Mexican Navy plane crash near Galveston, Texas

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on December 23, 2025. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, National News, Network, News.

GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — A small Mexican Navy plane transporting a 1-year-old medical patient along with seven others, crashed Monday near Galveston, killing at least two people, officials said. Related Articles US regulators approve Wegovy pill for weight loss Vince Zampella, video game pioneer behind ‘Call of Duty,’ dies at 55 Cloudy future for bourbon has Jim Beam closing Kentucky distillery for a year Waymos blocked roads and caused chaos during San Francisco power...

Implosion takes down a nearly century-old Mississippi River bridge

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on December 20, 2025. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, National News, Network, News.

By JACK DURA A nearly 100-year-old bridge over the Mississippi River between Iowa and Wisconsin was imploded Friday, an unusual spectacle that clears the way for a modern replacement. Related Articles Tesla CEO Elon Musk recovers $55 billion pay package in Delaware court ruling A California fisherman may have broken records by catching a 10.25-pound canary rockfish What’s inside the released files on Jeffrey Epstein NORAD continues decades-long tradition of tracking Santa’s trip around the...

Police search Brown University after shooter kills two and wounds eight on campus

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on December 14, 2025. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, National News, News.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A shooter dressed in black killed at least two people and wounded eight others at Brown University on Saturday during final exams on the Ivy League campus, authorities said, and police were searching for the suspect. Officers scattered across the campus and into an affluent neighborhood filled with historic and stately brick homes, searching academic buildings, backyards and porches for hours after the shooting erupted. The suspect was a male in dark clothing who was last seen leaving the engineering building where the attack happened, said Timothy O’Hara, Deputy...

AI slop ad backfires for McDonald’s

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on December 11, 2025. Posted in Business, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, National News, Network, News.

By Nilesh Christopher, Los Angeles Times People aren’t lovin’ it. McDonald’s was forced to pull down an AI-generated Christmas commercial from YouTube after some consumers said the AI-slop-filled tongue-in-cheek take on the holidays was distasteful. Related Articles Oreo is bringing zero-sugar cookies to the US First of 30 oil lease sales planned for Gulf of Mexico draws $300 million from companies What the Federal Reserve rate cut means for you Paramount says China’s Tencent withdrew from its...

Parent of student charged in shooting that killed teen at Kentucky State University

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on December 11, 2025. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, National News, Network, News.

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A parent of a Kentucky State University student has been charged with murder in an on campus shooting that killed one student and critically injured another. Related Articles AI slop ad backfires for McDonald’s Oreo is bringing zero-sugar cookies to the US San Francisco woman gives birth in a Waymo self-driving taxi West Virginia National Guard member killed in DC shooting is laid to rest Botulism outbreak sickens more than 50 babies and expands...

US military conducts strike on another suspected drug boat as probe into the first strike begins

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on December 5, 2025. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, National News, National Politics, Network, News, Politics, Social.

By KONSTANTIN TOROPIN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Southern Command announced that it had conducted another strike against a small boat in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Thursday, following a pause of almost three weeks. It is the 22nd strike the U.S. military has carried out against boats in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean that the Trump administration claimed were trafficking drugs. There were four casualties in Thursday’s strike, according to the social media post, bringing the death toll of the campaign to at least 87 people. Related Articles Grand...

Camp Mystic announces enhanced safety plans after death of 25 girls, 2 counselors

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on December 3, 2025. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, National News, Network, News.

By SEAN MURPHY The owners of an all-girls summer camp in the Texas Hill Country, where 25 campers and two teenage counselors died in catastrophic July 4 flooding, announced plans on Tuesday for new safety upgrades that will be in place when a portion of the camp opens next summer. Related Articles Why did the 2015 San Bernardino mass shooting happen? Raccoon goes on drunken rampage in Virginia liquor store and passes out on bathroom floor Arizona attorney general sues Chinese online retailer Temu over data theft...

Teen brands win over wary Black Friday shoppers while other deals disappoint

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on November 29, 2025. Posted in Business, Economy, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Holidays, National News, Network, News.

By Jaewon Kang, Bloomberg News This Black Friday, one class of retailers has figured out the trick of luring shoppers suffering through frigid temperatures and high inflation: teen brands. Related Articles Lawsuit: Meta allowed sex-trafficking posts on Instagram as it put profit over kids’ safety Airlines adopt software fix for Airbus A320 after plane has sudden altitude drop Fleet of UPS planes grounded after deadly crash expected to miss peak delivery season Snapchat is nearing 1 billion...

Tyson’s beef plant closure in Nebraska will impact a reliant town and ranchers nationwide

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on November 25, 2025. Posted in Business, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, National News, News.

By JOSH FUNK OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Tyson Foods’ decision to close a beef plant that employs nearly one third of residents of Lexington, Nebraska, could devastate the small city and undermine the profits of ranchers nationwide. Closing a single slaughterhouse might not seem significant, but the Lexington plant employs roughly 3,200 people in the city of 11,000 and has the capacity to slaughter some 5,000 head of cattle a day. Tyson also plans to cut one of the two shifts at a plant in Amarillo, Texas, and eliminate 1,700 jobs there. Together those two moves will reduce beef processing capacity...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, former Trump loyalist, says she is resigning from Congress

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on November 22, 2025. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, National News, National Politics, News, Politics.

By MICHELLE L. PRICE, LISA MASCARO and JEFF AMYWASHINGTON (AP) — <a href=”https://apnews.com/article/trump-marjorie-taylor-greene-republicans-maga-feud-f4b0dffe06440dfed16d336d08a05422″>Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene</a> of Georgia, a loyal supporter-turned-critic of President Donald Trump who faced his political retribution if she sought reelection, said Friday she is resigning from Congress in January. Greene, in a more than 10-minute video posted online, explained her decision and said she didn’t want her congressional...