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While sales of luxury condominiums are rising in Miami-Dade County, the broader condominium market continues to skyrocket, with future buyers struggling with rising funding and costs.Miami-Dade condominium sales fell 25% from May last year, according to a new June sales report released Monday by the Miami Realtor Association. Sales of Broward condos fell 24%, similarly compared to last year.Future buyers looking for affordable or middle market condominiums are increasingly frozen from the market due to high mortgage fees, strict financing requirements and rising costs.In contrast, condo sales prices have skyrocketed in sales of over $1 million since May 2019 before…

By staff writer Kathy Bussewitz NEW YORK (AP) — Jeremy Didier took her son to a psychologist and found an article about a woman with the condition, and was likely to have an ADHD rating. When she read it in the waiting room, she thought to herself: they’re describing me. “There’s a lot of very impulsive behaviors that take a lot of risk,” Didier said. As the magazine explained, she was excellent at school, but she was struggling to talk too much. As an adult, she had accumulated too many speeding tickets. She turned to her husband and said, “I…

Becky Burke was the first to learn about the Central Florida Highways Bureau’s plans to build a roadway in the middle of the late 19th century home when he saw a series of maps pinned to the board at a public meeting last April.”I walked, looked at these boards and thought, ‘Wow, wait a minute, it’s going through my dining room,'” she said this week.Adam Shafran, who lives across the dirt Bloom Lane from Burke’s property in a rural pocket in Seminole County, has learned from a friend that the roads can sweep his home and exotic fruit tree nursery.”I…

TAMPA, Fla. — The Federal Jury has charged a Bahamian man with illegally re-entry into the United States after being deported multiple times and being convicted of a felony, as announced by the US Lawyer’s Office this week.Kenten Ravaldo Swain, 39, from the Bahamas, faces illegal re-entry charges as an aggravated felony. If convicted, he could potentially be up to 20 years in federal prison.According to the indictment, it was discovered that Swain was voluntarily present in the United States on or around May 16, 2025. Officials say Swain has not received permission from the U.S. Attorney General or the…

ORLANDO, Fla. — The federal ju judge has indicted an Orlando man for committing an online threat against New Jersey US lawyer Alina Haba, authorities announced Thursday. Salvatore Rasteau, 58, faces up to 10 years in federal prison if convicted of threatening to injure or kill a federal employee and threatening to retaliate against federal law enforcement officials.According to the indictment, Lassott used his online account on May 19, 2025 to post a series of violent messages directed at HABBA. These messages included statements such as “Haba’s slow death” and “Eliminating Haba.”Federal prosecutors argue that the language constitutes a real…

TAMPA, Fla. — A Mexican citizen who has lived illegally in the United States for decades has been sentenced to four months in federal prison after pleading guilty to passport fraud and making false statements in his passport application.Juan Arturo Martinez, 62, was declared by US District Judge Stephen D. Maryday in February 2025 after admitting to using his fraudulent identity to obtain a US passport and engaged in reserved activities for US citizens, including voting in the presidential election.Court records show that Martinez, born in Mexico, filed a fraudulent passport application in Sarasota on March 1, 2002. To help…

Lychee has an infamous short season with pinkish red berries with open skinned skinned skinned fruits that are fragrant and sweet and juicy jelly-like meat. Usually only available for a few weeks in the summer, growing people in South Florida are always rushing to exotic treats.”My phone rings just below Florida, Florida, along with people seeking lychee from Texas to New York,” said Harry Holmbreaker, who has 30 trees on his family farm in Palm Beach Gardens. “We have a market and we hope we can grow more.”It will become an increasingly difficult challenge for farmers like Holmbreaker, as climate…

Can Sunrunners lose some of their dedicated lanes? | June 25thMore densityFor Sunrunner riders, it is a way of moving forward with public transport in the Tampa Bay Area. It’s a mistake to take away some of the Sunrunner’s dedicated lanes. The challenge in the future is density. Without urban density, an important concept of new urbanism, you can never imagine a high ridership. All future routes should consider the issue of density before the lines are constructed. Patrick Dowd, holiday Can Sunrunners lose some of their dedicated lanes? | June 25thBass lane failureUnlike other parts of the city’s Sprawl,…

Question: In our landscape, the myrtles of crepes are beautiful. Pruning the stems of faded flowers will cause the plants to produce more flowers? Answer: If you cut off the stems or blooming stems you are about to form a seed pod, prepare another flower. Cut them over the seed pods to make the trunk part at least 0.5 inches thick. More flowers usually appear in about 4-6 weeks. Removal of used flower stems can last until the end of August. Q. My gardening friend says it’s difficult to grow vegetables during the summer, but I list many crops at…

Lake County Commissioners called the first-ever agricultural land workshop to provide solutions to maintain the county’s rich agricultural history. But instead, they listened to the challenges of producers and farmers that dozens of families were forced to sell their land for development. “We are very specialized and labor-intensive in agriculture, so labor is our biggest challenge,” said Austin Spivey, production manager at Cherry Lake Farm, Groveland. “I think it takes one person per 5 acres per year to perform all the different tasks. There are 720 acres, so there are 143 people that have to be adopted just to produce…