PGA Tour-LIV Golf merger latest, deadline extended into 2024

PGA Tour-LIV Golf merger latest, deadline extended into 2024

The PGA Tour has worked to extend a deadline into 2024 for finalising a merger agreement with Saudi Arabian investors, tour commissioner Jay Monahan calling talks “active and productive.” The update to players in a memo from Monahan came hours ahead of the year-end deadline to approve a framework agreement merging the PGA Tour, DP … Read more

Cool weather helping heat up business in Martin County

Cool weather helping heat up business in Martin County

STUART, Fla. — Locals and tourists in downtown Stuart said Friday they have been enjoying the cooler temperatures as they prepare to ring in the new year. Several local business owners said the drop in temperature is good for their bottom line. “[It is a] perfect night for date night, just cool weather,” Treasure Coast … Read more

Gil de Ferran, Indianapolis 500 winner and Brazilian icon, dies at 56

Gil de Ferran, Indianapolis 500 winner and Brazilian icon, dies at 56

Gil de Ferran, the 2003 Indianapolis 500 winner and holder of the closed-course land speed record, died Friday while racing with his son at The Concourse Club in Florida, multiple former colleagues confirmed to The Associated Press. He was 56. Fellow Brazilian driver Tony Kanaan said de Ferran was with his son, Luke, at the … Read more

Venezuela Deploys Soldiers Amid Dispute With Guyana Over Essequibo Territory

Venezuela Deploys Soldiers Amid Dispute With Guyana Over Essequibo Territory

Venezuela has decided to deploy more than 5,000 soldiers on its eastern Caribbean coast after neighboring Guyana received a warship from the UK amid a dispute over the Essequibo territory, according to President Nicolas Maduro. “Venezuela has the right to defend itself, to tranquility, to peace,” Maduro said Thursday on state TV, while accusing Guyana … Read more

Ex-Proud Boys leader is sentenced to over 3 years in prison for Capitol riot plot

Ex-Proud Boys leader is sentenced to over 3 years in prison for Capitol riot plot

WASHINGTON (AP) — A former leader of the far-right Proud Boys extremist group was sentenced on Tuesday to more than three years behind bars for joining a plot to attack the U.S. Capitol nearly three years ago. Charles Donohoe was the second Proud Boy to plead guilty to conspiring with other group members to obstruct … Read more

Storm system bringing heavy rain, damaging winds to upper East Coast

Storm system bringing heavy rain, damaging winds to upper East Coast

Coastal areas of the Northeast were being hit with heavy rain and strong winds Monday with flooding in many spots as a weekend-long storm persisted. The weather prompted a cruise ship heading to Florida and the Bahamas to dock in Boston, CBS News Boston reports. CBS News senior weather and climate producer David Parkinson said … Read more

New Florida medical marijuana licenses could come by summer

New Florida medical marijuana licenses could come by summer

TALLAHASSEE – Florida could move forward with 22 additional licenses for medical marijuana operators, nearly doubling the size of the state’s legal cannabis industry, within the next six months. The state Office of Medical Marijuana Use Director Christopher Kimball offered the tentative timeline after giving a presentation Wednesday about the medical marijuana program to the … Read more

Guyana Says Oil Producers Move Ahead Despite Venezuela’s Threats

Guyana Says Oil Producers Move Ahead Despite Venezuela’s Threats

Oil majors operating in Guyana’s waters are “moving ahead aggressively” with production plans despite Venezuela’s threats to take over the region in an escalating border conflict, according to President Irfaan Ali. Speaking from Georgetown, Ali said Guyana’s troops are prepared to defend the nation’s territory after Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro revived a long-dormant dispute over the … Read more

PGA Tour 2023, golf news, latest, updates, contract value, money, signing fee

PGA Tour 2023, golf news, latest, updates, contract value, money, signing fee

The whispers in the golf world are now a shocking reality with Jon Rahm confirming on Friday that he has left the PGA Tour to join LIV Golf. The world No.3 and reigning Masters champion made the news official on America’s Fox News, thus ending long-running speculation that he was defecting to the Saudi-backed circuit. … Read more

Trump declines to rule out abusing power or seeking retribution

Trump declines to rule out abusing power or seeking retribution

NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump declined to rule out abusing power if he returns to the White House after Fox News Channel host Sean Hannity asked him Tuesday to respond to growing Democratic criticism of his rhetoric. The GOP presidential front-runner has talked about targeting his rivals — referring to them as … Read more