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By DAN GREENSPAN LOS ANGELES (AP) — Samuel Helenius and Adrian Kempe scored in the third period, and the Los Angeles Kings rallied to beat the Florida Panthers 2-1 on Wednesday night. Darcy Kuemper stopped 26 shots for Los Angeles, which was held to two goals or fewer for the seventh time in eight games and snapped a two-game skid. Evan Rodrigues scored a power-play goal and Spencer Knight made 26 saves for the Panthers, who were coming off a 5-2 win at Anaheim on Tuesday night.

8212; Will Richard scored on a driving layup with 4.8 seconds remaining to lift No. 5 Florida — down 14 points in the the second half — past South Carolina, 70-69 on Wednesday night. Richard finished with 22 points for the Gators (17-2, 4-2 Southeastern Conference). He drove left from the top of the key and banked in the go-ahead layup. Jacobi Wright’s desperation 3-pointer was off the mark as South Carolina (10-9, 0-6) continued its worst start in SEC play since the 2013-14 season. Walter Clayton Jr.

The longest strike in decades by Las Vegas hotel workers ended Wednesday with a tentative contract between the union and a casino where hundreds of employees had walked off the job in November. Related Articles National News | Musk clashes with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman over Trump-supported Stargate AI data center project National News | Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes visits Capitol Hill after Trump clemency National News | Teen fatally shoots a female student and himself at Antioch High School in Nashville, police say National News | Pentagon to send up to 1,500 active duty troops to help secure US-Mexico border, officials say National News | Justice Department orders investigation of local compliance with Trump immigration crackdown The Culinary Workers Union announced on the social media platform X that it secured a pending five-year deal for about 700 employees at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas near the Strip.

A Miramar man charged with murder is asking a Broward judge to dismiss his case, accusing the male alleged victim of making a forceful and unwanted sexual advance that triggered their fatal 2020 confrontation. Marvin Jean-Pierre, 26, is charged with first-degree murder in the late 2020 death of Jose Mondelus, 52, a musician at the church Jean-Pierre’s mother attended in Miramar.

Nearly every day someone or other on my social media feeds will share the same quote by Hannah Arendt. It reads: “This constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore. A people that can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong.

Within hours of her release from captivity in Gaza, Emily Damari’s hand had become a new Israeli icon. Damari was injured on Oct. 7, 2023, when Hamas terrorists shot her and took her hostage. It became clear after she was released on the first day of the ceasefire that she had lost the ring and middle finger on her left hand. The clearest evidence came in a photograph released by the Israeli government, and later confirmed by pictures her family shared, showing Damari video chatting with her brother and father.