NRA again asks court to overturn Florida law banning people under 21 from buying long guns

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on August 1, 2024. Posted in Crime and Public Safety, Florida News, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, News, Parkland school shooting.

TALLAHASSEE — After a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision, the National Rifle Association on Wednesday urged an appellate court to find that a 2018 Florida law banning people under age 21 from purchasing rifles and other long guns violates the Second Amendment. The Republican-controlled Legislature and then-Gov. Rick Scott rushed to include the age restriction in a sweeping school-safety bill after Nikolas Cruz, who was 19 at the time, used a semiautomatic rifle to kill 17 students and faculty members at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in February 2018. Federal law already...

Feds urge judge to toss out Florida suit challenging rule on gun seller licenses and background checks

TALLAHASSEE — The Biden administration this week urged a judge to toss out a Florida lawsuit challenging a new federal rule that will require more gun sellers to be licensed and run background checks on buyers. U.S. Department of Justice attorneys Monday filed a 22-page motion in federal court in Tampa arguing that Florida does not have legal standing to challenge the rule, which was finalized in April by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody filed the lawsuit May 1, in part alleging that the rule will force the state to handle a...

Boar’s Head expands recall to include 7 million more pounds of deli meats tied to listeria outbreak

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on July 31, 2024. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Health, Latest Headlines, National News, News.

By JONEL ALECCIA The popular deli meat company Boar’s Head is recalling an additional 7 million pounds of ready-to-eat products made at a Virginia plant as an investigation into a deadly outbreak of listeria food poisoning continues, U.S. Agriculture Department officials said Tuesday. The new recall includes 71 products made between May 10 and July 29 under the Boar’s Head and Old Country brand names. It follows an earlier recall of more than 200,000 pounds of sliced deli poultry and meat. The new items include meat intended to be sliced at delis as well as some packaged meat and poultry...

Divided School Board suspends mom of transgender athlete for 10 days

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on July 31, 2024. Posted in Education, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, News.

A Monarch High employee accused of allowing her transgender daughter to play girls sports in violation of state law will be suspended for 10 days and moved to a different job, a divided Broward School Board decided Tuesday. Jessica Norton, 50, an information management specialist and coach at the Coconut Creek school, was one of at least eight district employees investigated, but the only one to face discipline. An investigation concluded that her child, now 16, played volleyball for two years at Monarch, as well as soccer and volleyball at nearby Lyons Creek Middle. A committee of district...

DeSantis signs death warrant in 1994 murder of FSU student

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

TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday signed a death warrant for an inmate convicted in the 1994 murder of a Florida State University student who went to the Ocala National Forest to camp with his sister. Loran Cole, 57, is scheduled to be executed Aug. 29 at Florida State Prison, according to documents posted Monday evening on the Florida Supreme Court website. Cole would be the first inmate executed in Florida since October, when Michael Duane Zack was put to death by lethal injection for a 1996 murder in Escambia County. Cole was sentenced to death in the February 1994 murder of John...

Man hospitalized with gunshot wound after shooting in Dania Beach

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on July 29, 2024. Posted in Crime and Public Safety, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, News.

An unidentified man was taken to a local hospital after a shooting Sunday at an apartment building in Dania Beach. The Broward Sheriff’s Office said its deputies responded to a report of a shooting in the 500 block of SW 2nd Avenue. Paramedics from Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue took the man to a nearby hospital where he was treated for a gunshot wound, according to agency spokesperson Miranda Grossman. His condition was not disclosed. The circumstances that led to the incident were not known. BSO’s Violent Crimes and Crime Scene units are investigating the shooting, Grossman said. The...

Fuchs to return as interim UF president after Sasse’s resignation

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on July 24, 2024. Posted in Education, Florida News, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, News.

TALLAHASSEE — University of Florida trustees Tuesday brought back former President Kent Fuchs to lead the school on an interim basis, after the sudden resignation of President Ben Sasse. Fuchs, who spent about eight years as UF president, will return to the role on Aug. 1. Sasse, who has been president less than two years, announced Thursday he will step down effective July 31 because of his wife’s health. He said he would work with Fuchs on the transition. “I just want to offer whatever help. I’ll be able to carry water and row alongside him,” Sasse said. Fuchs’ return was first announced...

Safety regulators investigate low flight by a Southwest jet that eventually landed at Fort Lauderdale airport

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on July 23, 2024. Posted in Florida News, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, News, Transportation.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal officials are investigating an incident in which a Southwest Airlines jet flew as low as 150 feet over water while it was still about 5 miles from its intended landing spot at the airport in Tampa. The pilots skipped over the Tampa airport and landed instead at Fort Lauderdale, 200 miles away. The July 14 flight followed a similar incident last month in Oklahoma City in which a Southwest jet flew at an unusually low altitude while still miles from the airport. The Federal Aviation Administration said Monday that it is investigating the incident. Southwest flight...

UF President Ben Sasse resigns unexpectedly, citing wife’s health

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on July 19, 2024. Posted in Education, Florida News, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, News.

GAINESVILLE — University of Florida’s president, Ben Sasse, unexpectedly announced his resignation late Thursday after just 17 months at the helm of the state’s flagship university, citing his wife’s health issues and a need to spend more time with his family. In a short statement emailed across campus, Sasse — the former Republican U.S. senator for Nebraska — said he would leave his job on July 31, less than two weeks away. The surprise announcement comes during a period of a fraught relationship between Sasse and the longtime chairman of UF’s board of trustees, developer Mori Hosseini,...

Appeals court overturns $3.6 million judgment against Miramar in case of man wrongly imprisoned for 26 years

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on July 19, 2024. Posted in Crime and Public Safety, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, News.

An appeals court on Wednesday overturned a Broward judge’s order that the city of Miramar owed $3.6 million to Anthony Caravella, a man who was exonerated in 2010 after spending over two decades in prison for a murder and rape he did not commit. Broward Circuit Judge Carlos Rodriguez late last year ordered Miramar to pay $2.5 million in compensatory damages and nearly $1.1 million in interest and attorneys’ fees after Caravella won a federal lawsuit in 2013 against the two now-retired Miramar officers who he argued coerced him into confessing to the 1983 murder of 58-year-old Ada...

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