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
Fish kill plagues lake in Youngstown park
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (AP) _ A health official in Youngstown is advising against eating fish from three lakes in Mill Creek Park since a sewer overflow …
Panel: Politics among reasons for botched UN Ebola response
By MARIA CHENG and RAPHAEL SATTER LONDON (AP) _ The Ebola outbreak exposed the U.N. health agency’s organizational failings, a panel reported Tuesday _ but …
Business
Chemical spill kills hundreds of fish in Aiea ditch
HONOLULU (AP) _ The state is investigating a chemical spill that killed hundreds of fish in a drainage ditch along the Pearl Harbor bike path …
Wyoming Lottery declines to release individual pay
CASPER, Wyo. (AP) _ The Wyoming Lottery Corp. has declined a newspaper’s request to release salary and benefit figures for individual employees, including its chief …
New bill would allow New Jersey drivers to pump gas
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) _ Drivers in New Jersey could soon pump their own gas under a bill being introduced in the Assembly. Under current law …
Education
Kansas school district officials announce layoffs, pay cuts
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) _ Years of low state funding, rising costs and the loss this year of $2 million in state money prompted an …
Texas lawmakers reach deal allowing guns on campus
By JIM VERTUNO and EVA RUTH MORAVEC AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ Texas surged toward allowing concealed handguns in public college classrooms, dorms and buildings with …
Panel votes to cut University of Wisconsin $250 million
By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The Legislature’s budget-writing committee voted Friday to cut the University of Wisconsin’s budget by $250 million …
Sports
Pinch hit king joins Marlins coaching staff
He was seven years old when he first picked up a bat at a youth sports club in Miami. More than four decades later, Lenny …
David Ortiz: `My belly hasn’t grown like Panda’
By KEN POWTAK FORT MYERS, Fla. — Big Papi arrived at spring training with a weighty quip about new teammate Pablo Sandoval. “My belly hasn’t grown …
Brian Bell’s football scholarship rescinded
By Alexis Gary Florida State University has rescinded the athletic scholarship of football recruit, Brian Bell, who may have been involved in the death of …
