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
House advances plan partially consolidating health agencies
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The Texas House has voted to partially consolidate the state’s health and human services bureaucracy, but stopped short of creating a …
Some Iowa farmers upset with government’s bird flu response
SIBLEY, Iowa (AP) _ Iowa farmers who have been dealing for weeks with thousands of rotting dead chickens are frustrated by the government’s response to …
Business
Capital Southwest plans to separate into 2 cos.
DALLAS (AP) — Capital Southwest Corp.’s stock is rising on news that it plans to separate its industrial and lending businesses into two publicly traded companies. …
RadioShack clashes again with lenders
By The Associated Press FORT WORTH, Texas — Trading in shares of RadioShack was halted Tuesday after the company disclosed a dispute with one of its …
Minnesota health exchange targeting uninsured
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Aided by a multimillion-dollar marketing budget, MNSure is aiming to sign up the remaining 5 percent of Minnesota residents who don’t have …
Education
Construction to start soon on Hastings College art center
HASTINGS, Neb. (AP) _ Construction will soon begin on the $8.5 million Jackson Dinsdale Art Center at Hastings College, expected to open in August 2016. …
Budget gap looms over Hawaii medical school, cancer center
HONOLULU (AP) _ A University of Hawaii report is warning that its medical school could lose its accreditation and its cancer center could lose its …
Pa. high school naming auditorium for murdered music teacher
COUDERSPORT, Pa. (AP) _ A northern Pennsylvania high school is naming its auditorium after a murdered music teacher. The Northern Potter School District will hold …