Earthquakes

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Lady Gaga: Japan Food is Great

Lada Gaga sips tea for Japan​In an interview with the Associated Press  in Japan, Lady Gaga said that if you want to help Japan recover from its recent earthquake and tsunami disaster, come on down. Gaga, in Tokyo for a benefit concert for tsunami victims, MTV Music Aid Japan, sai ... More >>

Good Food for Good Causes

Woolf Photography​Seems there's never any shortage of disasters on a personal or national scale. Here's two benefits that try to help ease the pain.  At Coco Asian Bistro & Bar in Fort Lauderdale, chef-owner Mike Ponluang is hosting a "Party for a Purpose" on Saturday, June 4, from 11:30 ... More >>

Japan and Haiti Benefit at Respectable Street 4/17

Candlelight Vigil for Japan's Earthquake Victims at Nova Southeastern University Tonight

​Even with all the news coverage of the disaster in Japan, it can be easy to forget about the suffering going on half a world away. We're bogged down in our daily grinds and have to worry about our own severe weather warnings. But students and faculty at Nova Southeastern University have been work ... More >>

Daudier Brings His Own History to the Biltmore

Horrific Quake Hits Japan; Tsunamis Spread

Associated Press Homes, boats, and debris in the floodwaters of Sendai.   Harrowing images are emerging from Japan, where an 8.9-magnitude earthquake and ensuing tsuanami with tidal waves in excess of 30 feet have turned the world upside down. ​Hundreds have already been confirme ... More >>

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Pompano Teachers Cleared of Religious Harassment Now Accused of Racist Remarks to Students

Flickr: kintod​It looks like the holy water sprinkling was the least of the legal problems of two Blanche Ely High School teachers. Leslie Rainier and Djuna Robinson are accused of ordering Haitian students to stand by the trash can to signify the inferiority of Haitian people.The complaint, which ... More >>

Alleged Holy Water Sprinklers Now Face Criminal Investigation

Flickr: Nutmeg The Puppy​Two Christian teachers at Blanche Ely High School in Pompano Beach have been cleared of wrongdoing by the Broward County School District, whose investigators reportedly found that the two did not sprinkle holy water at an atheist teacher, as was alleged. But interviews con ... More >>

Dashboard Confessional's Chris Carrabba to Perform Memorial Concerts for Lynn University

Top Chef Cooks for Haiti

​The 24-hour news cycle has long since moved on from the January earthquake that devastated Haiti and the agony of its aftermath, but for Haitian native and former Top Chef contestant Ron Duprat, forgetting is not that easy.  So he's teamed up with four South Florida Whole Foods Markets to ra ... More >>

UF Allows Film Students to Use Post-Earthquake Haiti Footage

courtesy of Jon Bougher​Two graduate film students at the University of Florida will be allowed to use footage they shot on a trip to Haiti since the earthquake in January in their thesis documentary. They will have to include a disclaimer at the beginning of the film that explains that the univer ... More >>

VIDEO: This Footage From Post-Earthquake Haiti May Keep Two UF Film Students From Graduating

This is a short clip from a documentary by two University of Florida film students. The students, Roman Safiullin from Fort Lauderdale and Jon Bougher from New Hampshire, were in Haiti in January when the big earthquake hit. Despite a university travel ban, the students went back to Haiti several d ... More >>

Punching, for Haiti

Amos Lee Smoothes Out the Culture Room Crowd

From Us, With Love

Numbers of Haitian Students in Browards Schools: 587 and Counting

​As of last Friday, the Broward County School District had 587 new Haitian students -- an increase of 85 since the Sun-Sentinel published its last article a few days earlier. That's far more students than Miami-Dade or Palm Beach County, but then the Broward schools have plenty of room, thanks to ... More >>

A Ball to Remember

In Broward and Palm Beach Hospitals, 266 Patients Treated for Injuries from Haiti Quake

Flickr: IFRC​After the earthquake struck Haiti, there wasn't time to decide exactly what role South Florida hospitals would play in treating victims. Nor was there time to figure out how those facilities would be paid in instances where the victims were Haitian citizens. But three weeks after the ... More >>

Orthopedic Surgeon From Imperial Point Tells Harrowing Tale of Post-Quake Haiti

Boston Herald / Bill GreeneDr. Boutin, with the hacksaw, performing another amputation in Haiti.​At 73 years old, Dr. Georges Boutin had never been to Haiti, and he had no reason to ever go until a phone conversation he had two weeks ago with his daughter Pier, an orthopedic surgeon who lives with ... More >>

Morning Juice: Bagmen Grabs a Guilty Plea; Trial Begins for Teen Accused in Coral Springs Kidnapping

​Here's what's happening in Broward and Palm Beach this morning:Ronald Owens, accused of handling $900,000 in dirty money on behalf of former Broward County Commission Joe Eggelletion, will plead guilty today in federal court, according to his lawyer. It appears that Owens was flipped by authoriti ... More >>

Lake Worth's Living Water Ministries Steps Up Haiti Meal Distribution

photo of Haiti courtesy of Living Water Ministries​In one respect, Living Water Ministries was lucky when it came to helping Haitian victims of last week's earthquake: They already had a large network of employees and contacts in Port-au-Prince and many others in outlying villages in the far North ... More >>

UPDATED: Haiti Earthquake Jolts Local Charity

A scene from LW's "Women helping women" program​Jon Pace, a boardmember of local charity  Living Water Ministries of the Palm Beaches told us by phone this morning that Executive Director Pastor Etienne Jacklin's house in the Bon-Repos area north of Port au Prince was destroyed, and his wife' ... More >>

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