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Fort Lauderdale lifts alcohol ban at beach for Super Bowl weekend
Heading to the beach for Super Bowl weekend? Feel free to get lit while you bury your toes in the sand — if you’re in Fort Lauderdale, that is. The city has lifted its beach ban on alcoholic beverages for three days around Super Bowl Sunday. The ban on open containers at the beach will […]
To get free tuition, graduates would agree to work in Florida under new bill
Community college could soon become free for many Florida students — as long as they don’t go elsewhere for a job. A bill that would create a new “Sunshine Scholarship” for students from low- and moderate-income families passed through committees in both chambers of the Legislature this week. ...

Fort Lauderdale lifts alcohol ban at beach for Super Bowl weekend
Heading to the beach for Super Bowl weekend? Feel free to get lit while you bury your toes in the sand — if you’re in Fort Lauderdale, that is. The city has lifted its beach ban on alcoholic beverages for three days around Super Bowl Sunday. The ban on open containers at the beach will […]
To get free tuition, graduates would agree to work in Florida under new bill
Community college could soon become free for many Florida students — as long as they don’t go elsewhere for a job. A bill that would create a new “Sunshine Scholarship” for students from low- and moderate-income families passed through committees in both chambers of the Legislature this week. ...

Free entry at museums on Saturday and Sunday
Enjoy free admissions to museums on Aug. 3-4 with Bank of America’s Museum on Us program. The year-round program offers free entry to more than 200 national arts institutions on the first full weekend of each month with an ID and a Bank of America or Merrill Lynch credit or debit card. Get free...
Consumer Reports: Trader Joe’s, Publix at top list of best grocery stores
Consumer Reports readers weighed in on America’s best supermarkets and Trader Joe’s, Costco and Publix are near the top of the list in the magazine’s 2019 annual subscriber survey, published in the August issue. Readers rated 96 national and regional supermarkets, supercenters and warehouse clubs....

To get free tuition, graduates would agree to work in Florida under new bill
Community college could soon become free for many Florida students — as long as they don’t go elsewhere for a job. A bill that would create a new “Sunshine Scholarship” for students from low- and moderate-income families passed through committees in both chambers of the Legislature this week. ...
It’s a bittersweet beginning of the end for Lucky’s Market employees, customers
Melvin Thomas, seafood manager at Lucky’s Market, looked over the crowd of shoppers who turned out on a 45-degree morning Wednesday for the first day of the Coral Springs store’s going-out-of-business sale. “I wish it was this busy every day,” he said. Left unsaid: If it had been, Lucky’s might...
Drug dealer accused of murder gets 22 years in prison for selling deadly fentanyl
A plea deal Wednesday resolved the first-of-its-kind case in South Florida of a drug dealer charged with first-degree murder over a buyer’s fatal overdose from fentanyl. Calvin Warren Jr. pleaded guilty to a lesser count of second-degree murder in exchange for a 22-year prison sentence, just a...

What I didn’t know then about the Super Bowl