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
Minnesota funeral home closed due to unsanitary conditions
MAPLEWOOD, Minn. (AP) _ Minnesota health officials have shut down a suburban Twin Cities funeral home accused of letting bodies decompose. The state Department of …
Water contamination closes bathrooms at Eagle Mountain park
EAGLE MOUNTAIN, Utah (AP) _ Restrooms at a popular Eagle Mountain park have been closed because by the city because recent test showed high levels …
Business
Mylan rejects Teva’s $40.1 billion buyout offer
NEW YORK (AP) _ Mylan N.V. rejected Teva Pharmaceuticals’ $40.1 billion buyout offer, saying the cash-and-stock proposal undervalues the company. Mylan said that it won’t …
Apple’s Mac is selling strong, iPad not so much
By BRANDON BAILEY AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) _ Apple’s iPhone was again the company’s star in the first three months of the year. …
Nissan gives $500,000 to Mississippi history museums
CANTON, Miss. (AP) _ Nissan Motor Co. is donating $500,000 to help fund exhibits and a dining area at two Mississippi history museums being built …
Education
Teacher fired over students’ notes to sick prison inmate
ORANGE, N.J. (AP) _ A New Jersey school district has fired a teacher whose third-grade class wrote get-well letters to a sick prison inmate convicted …
University of Vermont trustees considering tuition increase
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) _ The University of Vermont Board of Trustees plans to discuss a proposed 3.4 percent tuition increase for the 2016 academic year …
Kansas officials to urge schools to teach financial literacy
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) _ Kansas legislators and State Board of Education members are launching a campaign to encourage public schools to teach students financial literacy. …
Sports
Heat wins 2nd game with late spurt, series in Miami
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana thought it had taken control Tuesday night. LeBron James and Dwyane Wade stole it right back. The four-time MVP and perennial …
Sterling accused of harming NBA
NEW YORK — The NBA charged Donald Sterling on Monday with damaging the league and its teams with his racist comments, setting up a June …
Ex-NAACP head says Donald Sterling distraught
LOS ANGELES (AP) – The former president of the Los Angeles chapter of the NAACP said Monday that Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling was …