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
My daddy’s truck
Tuesday morning, bright and sunny. Woke before the alarm went off. Prepared for the day and loaded my equipment onto the truck. I started the …
Rethinking cancer awareness
Breast Cancer Awareness is imperative. I get that. A friend of mine was recently diagnosed. My aunt and grandmother have five survivor friends between them. …
Business
Iowa fertilizer plant asks state for additional $21.5 million
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ A $1.9 billion fertilizer plant under construction in southeast Iowa is asking for an additional $21.5 million in incentives from …
Walker’s jobs agency gave out $124 million without review
By SCOTT BAUER MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ More than two dozen awards worth more than $124 million were made to companies without a formal staff …
Home Bancorp buys Louisiana Bancorp in $74.5 million deal
LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) _ Lafayette-based Home Bancorp Inc. will acquire Metairie-based Louisiana Bancorp in a cash deal valued at $74.5 million. The New Orleans Advocate …
Education
Test score results show gains in all high school subjects
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) _ Results from the Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program show students made significant gains in all high school subjects and in the majority …
Southern Miss public health program receives accreditation
HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) _ The Department of Public Health at The University of Southern Mississippi has been granted continued accreditation by the Council on Education …
11 percent of UM students report unwanted sexual behavior
By DAVID N. GOODMAN DETROIT (AP) _ About 11 percent of University of Michigan students say they experienced some form of sexual behavior without their …
Sports
‘Deflategate’ appeal could test powers of NFL commissioner
By JIMMY GOLEN AP Sports Writer FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — This is no longer about deflated footballs. Tom Brady signaled in his appeal of his “Deflategate” …
Marlins pitcher Mat Latos injured, leaves game with bruised shin
MIAMI — Right-hander Mat Latos left the Miami Marlins’ game against Atlanta in the fourth inning Saturday with a bruised left shin after being hit …
Marlins’ Dee Gordon is hitting above .400
By STEVEN WINE AP Sports Writer MIAMI — Major league batting leader Dee Gordon goes about his business so quietly his .426 average was news …
