By Jim Turner | News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — Florida’s unemployment rate remained at 3.7% in June, while private-sector jobs were down 21,000 from May, according to a report released Friday by the state Department of Commerce. The state estimated 415,000 Floridians qualified as unemployed in June, up 1,000 from May. Meanwhile, the workforce of 11.193 […]
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LAS VEGAS — At times, summer league can be as much about those out of view as those on the court. For the Miami Heat, three such names have been part of that buzz, each with ties to the team. Front and center has been a player attempting to get back in front of NBA
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By Chris Perkins | South Florida Sun Sentinel With the 2025 NFL season fast approaching, the South Florida Sun Sentinel takes a look at 10 storylines to watch for in a 10-part series ahead of the Miami Dolphins’ first day of training camp, which is set for July 22. Miami Dolphins backup quarterback Zach Wilson better be good. That’s not
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By Anthony Man | aman@sunsentinel.com | South Florida Sun Sentinel Gov. Ron DeSantis, touting himself as someone committed to fraud-free, glitch-free elections, said Wednesday that he removed Broward’s then-supervisor of elections when he came into office. He didn’t. The county official in question, Supervisor of Elections Brenda Snipes, was out of office for five weeks by the time DeSantis
DeSantis remembers removing former Broward elections supervisor from office. He didn’t. Read More »
By Dani Travis | WPEC-CBS12 Palm Beach County officials want to help people become homeowners — offering applicants up to $100,000 through its first-time homebuyer program. “We’re living in a high-cost county, and we know that the cost of housing is more than what it used to be,” said Jonathan Brown, director of the county’s Housing and Economic
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By Dave Hyde | dhyde@sunsentinel.com | Sun Sentinel Some players didn’t have enough money to eat properly. “He’d buy those kids meals so they wouldn’t be hungry all the time,” a friend of Teddy Bridgewater said. Some players had no way home after practice. “He’d pay for Ubers for them,” Bridgewater’s friend said. There has never been an amateur
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By Ira Winderman | iwinderman@sunsentinel.com | South Florida Sun Sentinel LAS VEGAS — The Miami Heat talk a year ago was of Bam Adebayo playing more as a stretch five, taking his game to the 3-point line, as he did with Team USA during last summer’s run to gold at the Paris Olympics. A year later, another summer statement
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By Susannah Bryan | sbryan@sunsentinel.com | South Florida Sun Sentinel What would you like to see on Sistrunk Boulevard? Fort Lauderdale wants to know. The city is hosting a Sistrunk Empowerment Summit from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, July 19. You’ll find out how to access capital to start a business and learn more about resources that are
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By Phillip Valys | pvalys@sunsentinel.com | South Florida Sun Sentinel Derrick McCray wasn’t about to let sickness, death and hardship derail a 91-year-old barbecue dynasty, not after all his restaurant achieved: catering 18 straight Super Bowls, serving ribs to U.S. presidents and standing as a safe haven through the civil rights era. But he came very close. In March
By David Furones | dfurones@sunsentinel.com | South Florida Sun Sentinel MIAMI — Ask Randy Moss where he ranks among the NFL’s all-time wide receivers, and he’ll give you a fiery response. “Is that a real question?” Moss, the Hall of Famer, starts. “Are you being political or are you being real? “Because if we’re talking political, we’ll say Jerry
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