Jury convicts former Kentucky officer of using excessive force on Breonna Taylor during deadly raid

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on November 2, 2024. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, National News, Network, News.

By DYLAN LOVAN LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A federal jury on Friday convicted a former Kentucky police detective of using excessive force on Breonna Taylor during a botched 2020 drug raid that left her dead. The 12-member jury returned the late-night verdict after clearing Brett Hankison earlier in the evening on a charge that he used excessive force on Taylor’s neighbors. It’s the first conviction of a Louisville police officer who was involved in the deadly raid. Some members of the jury were in tears as the verdict was read around 9:30 p.m. Friday. They had earlier indicated to the judge in...

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...

Trump will become first major 2024 candidate to visit majority-Arab Dearborn, Michigan

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on November 1, 2024. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, National Politics, Network, News, Politics.

By Joey Cappaletti, Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Donald Trump is set to visit Dearborn, Michigan — the nation’s largest Arab-majority city — on Friday, according to a local business owner who first insisted the former president call for peace in Lebanon before hosting him. Metro Detroit is home to nation’s largest concentration of Arab Americans, with a large chunk of them living in Dearborn. The city — which President Joe Biden won by a 3-to-1 margin — has been roiled by political turmoil, with many upset with the Biden administration’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war. While...

Israel must step in if it bans the UN agency that is a lifeline for Gaza, UN says

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on October 30, 2024. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Network, News, World News.

By EDITH M. LEDERER and JAMEY KEATEN UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations stressed Tuesday that if Israel puts in place new laws cutting ties with the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, the Israeli government will have to meet their needs under international law. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says there is no other U.N. alternative to the agency, known as UNRWA. It has been a lifeline during the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, and the Israeli legislation “will have a devastating impact on the humanitarian situation” in the Palestinian territories, U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric...

Judge in case of attempted Trump assassination in Florida declines to step aside

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on October 30, 2024. Posted in Crime and Public Safety, Florida News, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, National News, News.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal judge presiding over the criminal case of a man charged with trying to assassinate former President Donald Trump declined Tuesday to recuse herself, saying a defense request that she do so was without merit. Lawyers for Ryan Wesley Routh had urged U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon to step aside, saying her handling of Trump’s classified documents prosecution created at least the appearance of bias in favor of the former president and current Republican nominee. They cited the fact that she was appointed to the bench by Trump and has been repeatedly praised by...

One dead, four in critical condition after 50-foot boat explodes at Dania Beach marina

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on October 26, 2024. Posted in Crime and Public Safety, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, News.

A 50-foot boat exploded while being fueled at a Dania Beach marina Friday afternoon, killing one man and critically injuring four other men, a Broward Sheriff’s Fire Rescue official said. The blast about 4:30 p.m. at the marina at 4470 Ravenswood Road was powerful enough for it to be heard at the Rustic Inn Crabhouse that is diagonally across a canal from the marina, Battalion Chief Michael Kane said. The boat, which was delivered to the marina earlier Friday, was being prepared for an upcoming boat show and was fixed on a trailer while being fueled when a “large, intense blast” erupted,...

FACT FOCUS: A look at false and misleading claims surrounding the 2024 election

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on October 26, 2024. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, National Politics, Network, News, Politics.

A steady stream of false and misleading information is circulating online around the 2024 election. Since early voting began there have been false reports of ballots for former President Donald Trump in Pennsylvania being destroyed; more registered voters than those eligible to vote in Michigan; and a voter’s choice being “flipped” by a Dominion voting machine in Georgia. Here’s a look at the facts. Video of Trump ballots being destroyed in Pennsylvania was fabricated CLAIM: A video shows ballots marked for Trump being destroyed in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, while those for Vice President...

Arrest made in July shooting that killed woman outside North Lauderdale apartment complex

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on October 23, 2024. Posted in Crime and Public Safety, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, News.

A 23-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a shooting in July that killed a woman outside of a North Lauderdale apartment complex, but authorities have not yet released a motive or said whether the woman was targeted or a random victim. On July 15, Bryanna Nina was standing outside of the complex in the 1000 block of Southwest 76th Avenue shortly before 7 p.m. when multiple people got out of a dark-colored car and started shooting, the Broward Sheriff’s Office said. Nina was shot multiple times and was pronounced dead at Broward Health North in Pompano Beach. The Sheriff’s...

Driver accused in deadly Pompano Beach hit-and-run crash arrested week later

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on October 23, 2024. Posted in Crime and Public Safety, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, News.

The driver of a Nissan Rogue accused of hitting a man in Pompano Beach and leaving him dead in the road was arrested Sunday, a week after the crash, authorities said. Willian Eduardo Beltran Velasquez, 31, of Coral Springs, was held in the Broward Main Jail as of Tuesday night on one count of leaving the scene of an accident involving death and one count of tampering with physical evidence. Someone called authorities shortly after 4 a.m. Oct. 13 to report a person was lying in the middle of the road near the 1700 block of North Dixie Highway, the Broward Sheriff’s Office said. The victim,...

Conservative Tom Cotton joins Marco Rubio in Boca Raton to boost Rick Scott reelection

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on October 22, 2024. Posted in Election 2024, Florida News, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, Local News, National News, National Politics, News, Politics.

U.S. Sen Rick Scott, leading his opponent but hovering below 50% in most polls, campaigned with two of his Republican colleagues as he works to close the deal with early voting underway in Florida. U.S. Sens. Marco Rubio of Florida and Tom Cotton of Arkansas vouched for Scott’s conservative bona fides, and invoked the name of Florida’s most prominent Republican, former President Donald Trump, to sell Scott’s reelection. Without a Republican majority including Scott, it would be impossible for Trump to implement his policies if he’s reelected president, they said. “We know Donald Trump is...

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