• First responders in Florida will start to receive their COVID-19 bonuses this week after the legislature approved using CARES Act funding for the payments.
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• Scraped clean of tons of rubble late last month, the bare garage floor of Champlain Towers South appears to rule out at least one early suspect in its catastrophic collapse. There were no telltale signs of a sinkhole. The garage floor, the building’s lowest level, remains in one piece with no craters or potholes suggesting unseen geological forces were at work. The “sinkhole” a doomed resident saw opening from her balcony in a final phone conversation was likely not erosion beneath the building but the implosion of the concrete pool deck above the garage floor — the seeming trigger event of a massive and still unresolved structural failure. Jennifer Huergo, a spokesperson for the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the …
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• Ikey Hedaya is still waiting for closure almost a month after the Surfside condo collapse.
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• A judge says victims and families who suffered losses in the collapse of a 12-story oceanfront Florida condominium will get a minimum of $150 million in compensation initially.
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• Two close friends and former New Yorkers are among the last of the missing as the South Florida condo search stretches into a fourth week.
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• Another victim has been identified in the collapse of a 12-story Florida condominium that killed at least 97 people.
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• The recovery efforts for a South Florida condo building that collapsed last month might be coming to an end soon.
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