SoFlo Live
KAREN STEPHENS IN ‘POTUS’: The award-winning South Florida favorite returns Jan. 9 – 26 to the Carnival Studio Theater of Miami’s Arsht Center for the …
New Orleans mourns victims of truck attack with tearful vigil and celebration of life
New Orleans (AP) — New Orleans mourned, wept and danced at a vigil Saturday evening along the famous thoroughfare where a man rammed a pickup …
Health and Wellness
Supreme Court throws out case that could have limited lawsuits over disability access
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a case surrounding a Maine hotel that could have made it harder for people with disabilities …
Federal judge tosses lawsuit alleging environmental racism in St. James Parish
NEW ORLEANS (AP) – A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit that accused a south Louisiana parish of using land use policies to guide …
Business
Fearless Foundation and Amazon’s Black Business Accelerator award $1 million dollars for their Black women entrepreneurs grant program
ATLANTA- Fearless Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Fearless Fund, the first venture capital fund built by women of color, for women of color, has partnered …
Ascension Awards
WEST PALM BEACH Fla. – The promise of its youth movement was on display as the Black Chamber of Commerce of Palm Beach County hosted …
Musk deputy’s words on Starlink ‘weaponization’ vex Ukraine
BOSTON (AP) — Ukrainians reacted Thursday with puzzlement and some ire to comments by a top Starlink official that their country has “weaponized” the satellite …
Technology
Hot stuff: Mizzou professor helps invent temp-regulating mug
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – A University of Missouri professor hopes his invention of a new mug that maintains the coffee’s temperature longer percolates into hot …
Michigan center picked as driverless vehicle proving ground
YPSILANTI TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) – The U.S. Department of Transportation has designated a testing facility in Michigan for driverless vehicles as a proving ground for …
Education
FLORIDA HOUSE APPROVES BALLOT MEASURE TO LIMIT SCHOOL BOARD TERMS
Tallahassee, Fla. (AP) – A proposal to limit elected school board members in Florida to eight consecutive years took a step closer Thursday to appearing …
Florida’s unpopular Common Core standards are ‘eradicated’
Tallahassee, Fla. (AP) – Common Core in Florida is over. The state Department of Education in a statement on Friday said the controversial set of academic …
Lawyers turn out to meet students
Orlando, Fla – The atrium at Florida A&M University (FAMU) College of Law was buzzing as students networked with attorneys and representatives from a wide …
Sports
NFL Football Predictions for 2019
AFC East Division New England 12-4 Buffalo 9-7 New York 8-8 Miami 5-11 With Tom Brady returning, and Coach Belichick at the helm, who can …
Simone Biles: The world’s best
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The choice was entirely hers. Only there really wasn’t of one for Simone Biles to make. Sure, she could have …
Coco Gauff gets US Open tennis wild-card entry
By HOWARD FENDRICH PHOTO COURTESY OF APNEWS.COM Coco Gauff will get a chance to try for an encore: The 15-year-old from Florida received a wild-card …
