Fantasy Fest kicks off in Key West with 10 days of masquerades, parties and costume competitions

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on October 21, 2023. Posted in Florida News, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, News, Things To Do, Travel.

KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) — Key West’s Fantasy Fest began Friday, launching a 10-day schedule of masquerades, elaborate parties and costume competitions. The masking and costuming festival is themed “Uniforms & Unicorns: 200 Years Of Sailing Into Fantasy” to salute the Florida Keys’ 2023 bicentennial and that of the U.S. Navy’s presence in Key West. The Fantasy Fest schedule features nearly 100 events including Sunday’s Zombie Bike Ride, the Pet Masquerade for costumed pets and their people, the flamboyant Headdress Ball and the Masquerade March that draws several thousand costumed...

A main suspect in the killing of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse has been arrested after 2 years

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on October 20, 2023. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, News, World News.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A former justice official considered one of the main suspects in the killing of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse in 2021 was arrested Thursday in Haiti’s capital after being on the run for more than two years, police said. Joseph Badio once worked for Haiti’s Ministry of Justice and at the government’s anti-corruption unit until he was fired for alleged ethics violations weeks before the assassination. Badio was arrested in the neighborhood of Petion Vile in Port-au-Prince, National Police spokesman Garry Desrosiers said. Moïse was shot 12 times at his private...

Gaza under Israeli siege: Bread lines, yellow water and nonstop explosions

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on October 20, 2023. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Network, News, World News.

By ISABEL DEBRE and NAJIB JOBAIN (Associated Press) KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — There are explosions audible in the cramped, humid room where Azmi Keshawi shelters with his family in Gaza’s southern city of Khan Younis. The bombardments keep coming closer, he says, and they’re wreaking death and destruction. Keshawi, his wife, two sons, two daughters and tiny grandchildren are trying to survive inside. The Israeli military has relentlessly attacked Gaza in retaliation for a devastating Hamas rampage in southern Israel almost two weeks ago and the Keshawi family’s sense of desperation is...

With little controversy, Palm Beach County Schools support LGBTQ history resolution

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on October 19, 2023. Posted in Education, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, News.

A resolution to honor LGBTQ History Month created division and strife in two South Florida counties, but in Palm Beach County, it sailed through with little controversy. The School Board voted 5-0 with no discussion Wednesday evening to recognize October as LGBTQ History Month. The vote followed a half hour of public comments, where almost all speakers voiced support for it. Several speakers told personal stories about their own journey as an LGBTQ person or loving someone who is gay or transgender. “Acknowledging the existence of queer people through history, we are proving the fact that...

Biden will head to Israel and Jordan as concerns mount that Israel-Hamas conflict will spread

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on October 17, 2023. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, News.

By MATTHEW LEE, COLLEEN LONG and AAMER MADHANI (Associated Press) TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — President Joe Biden will travel to Israel and on to Jordan Wednesday to meet with both Israeli and Arab leadership, as concerns increase that the raging Israel-Hamas war could expand into a larger regional conflict. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced Biden’s travel to Israel as the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip grows more dire and as Israel prepares for a possible ground attack on the 141-square-mile (365-square-kilometer) territory to root out Hamas militants responsible for...

Former NFL receiver Antonio Brown arrested in Broward, accused of not paying child support

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on October 17, 2023. Posted in Crime and Public Safety, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, News.

Former NFL wide receiver Antonio Brown was arrested in Broward County Sunday on a warrant for allegedly failing to pay child support, court records say. A Broward Sheriff’s Office Civil Division deputy pulled over a cab in the 1000 block of Griffin Road in Dania Beach Sunday afternoon and made contact with Brown, 35, who lives in Hollywood, in the backseat, a probable cause affidavit said. He had an active arrest warrant out of Miami-Dade County. The affidavit did not contain further details. The arrest warrant, issued in early August, was related to a 2013 paternity case involving his...

Louise Glück, Nobel-winning poet of terse and candid lyricism, dies at 80

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

By HILLEL ITALIE (AP National Writer) NEW YORK (AP) — Nobel laureate Louise Glück, a poet of unblinking candor and perception who wove classical allusions, philosophical reveries, bittersweet memories and humorous asides into indelible portraits of a fallen and heartrending world, has died at 80. Glück’s death was confirmed Friday by Jonathan Galassi, her editor at Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Additional details were not immediately available. Over more than 60 years of published work, Glück forged a narrative of trauma, disillusion, stasis and longing, spelled by moments — but only moments...

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...

More than 90% of people killed by western Afghanistan quake were women and children, UN says

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on October 13, 2023. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, News, World News.

By RIAZAT BUTT (Associated Press) ISLAMABAD (AP) — More than 90% of the people killed by a 6.3-magnitude earthquake in western Afghanistan last weekend were women and children, U.N. officials reported Thursday. Taliban officials said Saturday’s earthquake killed more than 2,000 people of all ages and genders across Herat province. The epicenter was in Zenda Jan district, where 1,294 people died, 1,688 were injured and every home was destroyed, according to U.N. figures. Women and children were more likely to have been at home when the quake struck in the morning, said Siddig Ibrahim, the...

Jurors convict Colorado police officer in death of Elijah McClain, acquits a second

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on October 13, 2023. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Network, News.

Elijah McClain is pictured in this undated photograph. (Photo provided by family of Elijah McClain) BRIGHTON — Jurors on Thursday delivered a split decision in the trial of two Aurora police officers charged in the death of Elijah McClain, convicting one officer but acquitting the other after nearly three weeks of testimony. The jury found Aurora police officer Randy Roedema, 41, guilty of criminally negligent homicide and third-degree assault — the two lesser charges he faced. Jurors acquitted former officer Jason Rosenblatt, 34, on all charges. He put his head in his hands on the defense...

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