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• Heavy police presence expected as Miami prepares for its 23rd annual Ultra Music Festival Final preparations were underway at Bayfront Park as Miami’s 23rd annual Ultra Music Festival kicks off Friday night. The annual electronic music fest is expected to attract more than 165,000 partiers. Miami will have one of its busiest weeks of the year as the city prepares to host Ultra, the Miami Open and the ongoing surge in spring breakers taking over South Beach. Sky 10 flew above the crowd earlier in the day, capturing images of festival-goers pouring in, on Day 1 of this three-day event. With large crowds comes a heavy police presence. “We’ll have plenty of officers on…
• Miami firefighters work to extinguish blaze at abandoned building City of Miami firefighters worked to extinguish a fire that erupted at around 1 p.m. Thursday afternoon at an abandoned three-story building. The building is located in the area of Southwest Sixth Street and Seventh Avenue in the city’s Little Havana neighborhood. According to police, no injuries were reported. Because the building was abandoned, firefighters chose to use what they call a “defensive attack” — continuing to douse the building with water, but not going inside. “We determined that it was unsafe for the firefighters to be inside and we established that there was no life safety hazards because it…
• Hong Kongers hold first protest in years under strict rules Dozens of people on Sunday joined Hong Kong's first authorized protest since the lifting of major COVID-19 restrictions under unprecedentedly strict rules, including wearing a numbered badge around their necks. The rules set out by the police, who cited security reasons, came as the financial hub was promoting its return to normalcy after years of anti-virus controls and political turmoil. During the pandemic, protests were rare due to COVID-19 restrictions. In addition, many activists have been silenced or jailed after Beijing imposed a national security law following massive protests in 2019. Critics say the city's freedom of assembly that was…
• Search on for missing in deadly chocolate factory explosion An explosion at a chocolate factory in Pennsylvania on Friday killed two people and left five people missing, authorities said. One person was pulled alive from the rubble overnight. Rescue crews using dogs and imaging equipment continued to search through the rubble Saturday — hours after the blast that erupted just before 5 p.m. Friday at the R.M. Palmer Co. plant in the borough of West Reading, about 60 miles (96 kilometers) northwest of Philadelphia. West Reading officials on Saturday confirmed two fatalities. The Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency had earlier said there were five fatalities, citing county emergency management officials,…
• Century-old Miami high-rise suddenly deemed unsafe, but some tenants unconvinced A normal Thursday work day inside a Miami high-rise came to a sudden halt when everyone was forced to evacuate without notice. Everyone in the historic Huntington Building in downtown Miami, with its 100 years of history outlined in the lobby, is now in the process of moving out because the structure was deemed unsafe last week. Firefighters flooded the hallways while working to clear the offices inside the building, located at 168 SE First St. One firefighter could be heard asking what the problem is. “So why is it a condemned building?” he’s heard asking. “It was a big…