Miami-Dade Schools offering kids free breakfast and lunch during summer
Photo courtesy of iStock MIAMI – Miami-Dade County Public Schools is doing its part to address food insecurity as the district is offering free breakfast …
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Donalds inching closer to become first-ever Black Florida governor
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Gallon among five to win Miami-Dade Commission seats unopposed
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Miami Gardens to host citywide clean-up effort June 13
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Broward Health Celebrates Ribbon Cutting of New Freestanding Emergency Room in Lighthouse Point
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City of Miramar bans RVs residency following complaints
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High School student athletes must undergo heart screening
Photo courtesy of pngtree.com MIAMI – First time high school student-athletes will be required to to take an ECG heart screening before they can play …
Health and Wellness
Smoke from Canada wildfires increasing health risks in Black and poorer U.S. communities
DETROIT (AP) – Smoky air from Canada’s wildfires shrouded broad swaths of the U. S. from Minnesota to New York and Kentucky on Wednesday, prompting …
Australia is the first country to let patients with depression or PTSD be prescribed psychedelics
An ingredient in psychedelic mushrooms, can be given to people who have hard-to-treat depression. STOCK PHOTO SYDNEY (AP) – Australia is now the first country …
Business
Kiosks offers tag renewals at some Florida supermarkets
Altamonte Springs, Fla. (AP) – Renewing your motor vehicle registration has gotten a little easier in some Florida counties thanks to kiosks at the local …
Rubio takes big business to task for compassion a year before election
Orlando, Fla. (AP U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio is taking Big Business to task. In an op-ed published Monday, the Republican from Florida called corporate America …
‘Hall of Famers’
Staff Report Fort Lauderdale, Fla. – The Broward Education Foundation is taking an all-star team of distinguished Broward County Public Schools alumni out to the …
Technology
Searching for ET: Hawking to look for extraterrestrial life
By GREGORY KATZ LONDON (AP) _ Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking has joined a Russian billionaire to launch a major new effort to listen for aliens …
Electrical engineer seeks gov’t probe of Lexus acceleration
By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) _ An electrical engineer with a doctorate degree from Stanford University has asked U.S. safety regulators to …
Education
48 arrested at Yale protest over fossil fuel investments
PHOTO COURTESY OF WORLD ATLAS NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) – Yale University police have arrested 48 people who were protesting the Ivy League school’s investments …
17-year-old Bass finishes PBSC honors diploma in high school
PHOTO COURTESY OF PBSC WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – Ahria Bass didn’t just get a head start on her college education while in high school, …
National fraternities, sororities sue Harvard over controversial single-sex rule
PHOTO COURTESY OF HARVARD.ORG CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Several national fraternities and sororities sued Harvard University Monday over a 2016 rule that discourages students from joining …
Sports
Dolphins acquire DT Akeem Spence from Lions for draft pick
Akeem Spence PHOTO COURTESY OF MLIVE.COM MIAMI (AP) – Defensive tackle Akeem Spence has been acquired by the Miami Dolphins from the Detroit Lions for …
Florida’s Callaway fails drug test
Antonio Callaway PHOTO COURTESY OF ALLIGATOR ARMY GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) _ Former Florida receiver Antonio Callaway failed a drug test at the NFL combine, a …
Heat must use offseason to figure out how to improve
Dwayne Wade PHOTO COURTESY OF HOT HOT HOOPS MIAMI (AP) — If there was any reason for solace in the Miami Heat locker room after …
