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Former President Donald Trump speaks at rally in West Palm Beach | PHOTOS

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on October 12, 2023. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, News, Photos and Videos, Politics.

Former President Donald Trump speaks at a Club 47 USA rally at the Palm Beach Convention Center in West Palm Beach on Wednesday, October 11, 2023.

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,...

Multiple Broward sheriff’s employees face inquiry over pandemic relief funds, sources say

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on October 12, 2023. Posted in Crime and Public Safety, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, News.

Multiple members of the Broward Sheriff’s Office, including sworn deputies, are under federal investigation for their participation in collecting COVID-19 relief money known as the Paycheck Protection Program, sources said this week. The South Florida U.S. Attorney’s Office has been pursuing cases of pandemic relief fraud involving the program, which was run by the Small Business Administration and meant to help keep small businesses afloat during the pandemic. Those facing scrutiny had submitted paperwork for loans for the most money possible under the program, according to a source. Since...

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...

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...

Do you recognize her? Woman killed in Lauderdale Lakes car crash is unidentified

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on October 4, 2023. Posted in Crime and Public Safety, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, News.

A woman was killed in a car crash in Lauderdale Lakes last week, and all efforts to identify her have been unsuccessful, leading the Broward Sheriff’s Office to release a sketch of her Tuesday. The 4-foot-9, 80-pound woman was crossing the road near the 3400 block of North State Road 7 and the intersection of Northwest 34th Street shortly before 6:30 a.m. Sept. 27 when the driver of a 2023 Kia Soul heading southbound hit her in the right lane, the Sheriff’s Office said. The woman was pronounced dead at the scene, and the Kia driver stayed to cooperate with the investigation. The Sheriff’s...

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...

Philippe to become Category 1 hurricane this week; Rina downgraded

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on October 2, 2023. Posted in Florida News, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Hurricane forecast, Hurricane Tracks, Latest Headlines, News, Storms & Hurricanes, Weather.

Tropical Storm Philippe is expected to become a Category 1 hurricane later this week with top winds of 85 mph, while a weakening Rina was downgraded to a tropical depression on Sunday. The two neighboring tropical systems had interacted last week in an uncommon phenomenon in the Atlantic. The Fujiwhara Effect is a binary interaction where two tropical cyclones within 345 miles to about 860 miles of each other start to spin around a common point, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The bigger of the two sometimes absorbs the smaller storm, or the smaller storm...

DeSantis says he would sign a 15-week abortion ban as president

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on September 29, 2023. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, News, Politics.

LOS ANGELES — In the chaos of Wednesday night’s noisy Republican presidential debate, South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott interrupted Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to pose a question on abortion that DeSantis had dodged directly answering for months. Would the Florida governor sign a “15-week limit” on abortion as president, Scott asked, talking over both DeSantis and Dana Perino, one of the moderators, in a way that made his full remarks difficult to hear. “Yes, I will,” DeSantis replied. The moment — which largely escaped attention in real time but was noted by The Daily Signal, a news website...

Four South Floridians await sentencing in fake nursing diploma scheme, feds say

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on September 29, 2023. Posted in Crime and Public Safety, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, News.

Eight South Florida residents have either pleaded guilty or been convicted for their participation in a scheme where thousands of fake nursing diplomas and transcripts were sold out of three accredited schools in Broward and Palm Beach counties to aspiring nurses, allowing them to sit for national board exams and to land nursing jobs across the country. Seven of the eight pleaded guilty, including two nursing school owners, while one defendant was convicted Thursday. Four of them are awaiting sentencing. A total of 20 defendants who federal prosecutors announced charges against in the...