Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Florida has a tough new law aimed at getting the homeless off the streets. Under a statute that took effect Tuesday, it is now illegal in Florida to sleep on sidewalks, in parks, on beaches or in other public spaces. The law requires counties and cities to enact
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Dodgers legend Fernando Valenzuela is in a hospital with an unspecified health problem and will not be part of the team’s Spanish-language broadcasts during the playoffs, according to multiple media reports. “Fernando Valenzuela is in the hospital with health problems after stepping away from his duties with the Dodgers last week,” David Faitelson of TUDN
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Frank Fritz, part of a two-man team who drove around the U.S. looking for antiques and collectibles to buy and resell on the reality show “American Pickers,” has died. He died Monday night at a hospice facility in Davenport, Iowa, said Annette Oberlander, a longtime friend. She said he was 60, not 58,
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Hezbollah has warned that the rockets that struck central Israel were only the beginning and that the militant group is waiting for invading forces to enter Lebanon to confront them. Tuesday’s rocket attack on a suburb of Tel Aviv came as Israel is expected to launch a ground offensive on
Continue ReadingAssociated Press A former financial manager for the NFL’s Jacksonville Jaguars who stole $22 million from the team is suing FanDuel for $250 million, saying the betting company preyed on his gambling addiction. Amit Patel, who is serving a 6 1/2-year prison sentence in South Carolina, filed a lawsuit Tuesday in federal court in New
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Unos arqueólogos daneses descubrieron más de 50 esqueletos “excepcionalmente bien conservados” en un gran cementerio de la época vikinga, al este del país. Un equipo del Museo de Odense ha pasado los últimos seis meses excavando el sitio de Åsum, que ocupa unos 2.000 metros cuadrados y se cree que data de
Continue ReadingAssociated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — It doesn’t feel like Christmas in Venezuela. At least not yet. Even if the president wants it to be. Residents of Caracas, the capital, woke up Tuesday to a towering Christmas tree standing in a popular public square, weeks after President Nicolás Maduro declared the jolly season would start
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writer MILWAUKEE (AP) — Sal Frelick returned to the Milwaukee Brewers’ lineup for the start of the playoffs without needing to worry about hitting any metal if he crashed into a wall again. Frelick bruised his hip Friday when his left side made contact with the metal chain link inside a window in
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writer ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — NFL scouts filled an entire row of the Michigan Stadium press box to get a look at some of the top prospects in the upcoming draft when the Wolverines beat Southern California two weeks ago. The NFL had representatives from 13 teams and three franchises sent two
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A solar eclipse event will create a “ring of fire” in the skies over parts of South America on Wednesday, according to NASA. Annular solar eclipses occur when the moon passes between Earth and the sun when the moon is near or at the farthest point in its orbit
Continue ReadingBy David Chalian, CNN (CNN) — The 2024 presidential electoral battleground map has proved to be remarkably stable over the past two months after the race was reshaped with Vice President Kamala Harris’ elevation to the top of the Democratic ticket. We are only making one tiny, but quite consequential, adjustment to our current “Road
Continue ReadingAP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Ken Page, a stage and screen actor who starred alongside Beyoncé in “Dreamgirls,” introduced Broadway audiences to Old Deuteronomy in “Cats” and scared generations of kids as the voice of Oogie Boogie, the villain of the 1993 animated holiday film ”The Nightmare Before Christmas,″ has died. He was
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By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Frank Fritz, who appeared on the History Channel antiques collector show “American Pickers,” has died, according to his co-presenter and “American Pickers” creator Mike Wolfe. Fritz was 60. Wolfe said in a statement posted to his Facebook page on Tuesday that Fritz died on Monday, writing that he’s known Fritz for
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Ronald Brownstein, CNN (CNN) — All signs suggest that the partisan divide over changing gender roles in society could widen even further in the 2024 election, adding a new source of uncertainty to a contest already on a knife’s edge. Donald Trump’s recent declaration to female voters that “I will be your protector”
Continue ReadingSACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Private, nonprofit colleges in California will be banned from giving preference in the admissions process to applicants related to alumni or donors of the school under a new law signed this week by Gov. Gavin Newsom. The goal of the measure passed this year by legislators is to give students a
Continue ReadingAssociated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi Supreme Court has denied the latest appeal from a man who has been on the state’s death row longer than any other inmate. Richard Gerald Jordan is now 78. He was sentenced to death in 1976 for the kidnapping and killing of Edwina Marter that year in
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — John Amos, who starred as the family patriarch on the hit 1970s sitcom “Good Times” and earned an Emmy nomination for his role in the seminal 1977 miniseries “Roots,” has died. He was 84. He died Aug. 21 of natural causes in Los Angeles. Amos’ publicist, Belinda Foster, confirmed
Continue ReadingBy By Caroline Giuliani and Adapted by Francis Page, Jr. for Houston Style Magazine Click here for updates on this story October 1, 2024 (Houston Style Magazine) — Caroline Giuliani never imagined she’d be writing about the downfall of her father, Rudy Giuliani, in such stark terms. But in a powerful and personal reflection, she
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A jury was seated Monday and opening statements were delivered in the trial of a man accused of gunning down a 31-year-old Cathedral City restaurant customer during an altercation. Willie Ramirez Bustamante, 34, of Cathedral City, is charged with murder and sentence-enhancing gun and great bodily injury allegations in the slaying last year of Ernesto
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Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — John Amos, who starred as the family patriarch on the hit 1970s sitcom “Good Times” and earned an Emmy nomination for his role in the seminal 1977 miniseries “Roots,” has died. He was 84. He died Aug. 21 of natural causes in Los Angeles. Amos’ publicist, Belinda Foster, confirmed
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