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Associated PressJanuary 8, 2017

President-elect Donald Trump pledged to step away from his family-owned international real estate development, property management and licensing business before taking office Jan. 20. With less than two weeks until his inauguration, he hasn’t stepped very far. Trump has canceled a handful of international deals and dissolved a few shell companies created for prospective investments. […]

Associated PressJanuary 8, 2017

Dan and Janice Kovacs and their two children were passing through airport security when the gunfire erupted. They were shoeless — with wallets, passports and carry-on items chugging along a conveyor belt — when they sprang into the mass of people running to safety. Now they’re among stranded travelers at Fort Lauderdale trying to recover […]

Associated PressJanuary 7, 2017

Thousands of travelers and others at the busy Fort Lauderdale airport during Friday’s deadly shooting were kept on lockdown for more than six hours — some reliving their fears through false reports of a second shooting; others stuck on planes, or in their cars awaiting word from loved ones; and many just amassed at the […]

Associated PressJanuary 7, 2017

President Barack Obama plans a quick trip to Florida on Saturday to attend the wedding of a longtime aide who wears several hats. Marvin Nicholson is the White House trip director and personal aide to the president. He’s also one of Obama’s most frequent golf partners. Nicholson and his fiancee, Helen Pajcic, are tying the […]

Associated PressJanuary 7, 2017

Without a word, the gunman moved through the baggage claim picking off travelers until his handgun ran out of ammunition, leaving five dead and eight wounded in Fort Lauderdale’s airport. Panicked witnesses ran out of the terminal and spilled onto the tarmac, baggage in hand. Others hid in bathroom stalls or crouched behind cars or […]

Associated PressJanuary 6, 2017

The man police say opened fire with a gun from his checked baggage at a Florida airport had a history of mental health issues – some of which followed his military service in Iraq – and was receiving psychological treatment at his home in Alaska, his relatives said Friday after the deadly shooting. “Only thing […]

Associated PressJanuary 6, 2017

The brother of the man who has been tentatively named as the suspect in a deadly shooting at a Florida airport says the suspect had been receiving psychological treatment while living in Alaska. Bryan Santiago tells The Associated Press that his family got a call in recent months from 26-year-old Esteban Santiago’s girlfriend alerting them […]

Associated PressJanuary 6, 2017

The Latest on the shooting at the Fort Lauderdale airport (all times local): 5 p.m. — A spokeswoman from the Canadian Embassy says the suspect in the shooting at the international airport in Fort Lauderdale has no connection to the country and did not fly to Florida from there. Embassy spokeswoman Christine Constantin said in […]

Associated PressJanuary 6, 2017

The end of the 2016 presidential election is at hand. A joint session of Congress is set to count the Electoral College votes on Friday, a traditional ending to a most unconventional presidential election. Friday’s vote count marks the last chance for Democrats and other anti-Trump forces to disrupt Donald Trump‘s election. But even if […]

Associated PressJanuary 5, 2017

A record number of endangered Florida panthers died again last year — 42 of the remaining big cats were killed, matching the 2015 record. Thirty-four were hit by vehicles in southwest Florida, where development is shrinking what’s left of their habitat. The tally kept by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission includes six new […]

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Days from inauguration, Donald Trump still owns/controls 500 companies that make up the Trump Organization

Travelers lose 25,000 items in Florida airport rampage

Thousands stranded at Ft. Lauderdale airport: ‘You feel so vulnerable’

Obama to attend aide’s wedding Saturday in Florida

Airport gunman sent panicked passengers fleeing for lives

Family: Shooting suspect ‘lost his mind’ after tour in Iraq

Brother: Airport shooting suspect treated for mental health

Official: Fort Lauderdale airport shooting suspect not linked to Canada

A traditional end to an unconventional presidential election

Florida panther deaths still at record-high for 2016