Heat contributed to 4 deaths, made many ill at Miami-Dade prison without AC, lawsuit claims
Many men at the Miami-Dade Correctional Institute, an aging complex lacking air conditioning in housing areas, suffered from ...
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The heroic effort to save Florida’s coral reef from extreme ocean heat as corals bleach across the Caribbean
Michael Childress, Clemson University (THE CONVERSATION) Armed with scrub brushes, young scuba divers took to the waters of Florida’s Alligator Reef in late July to try to help corals struggling to ...
Heat again back to injury waiting game with Jimmy Butler, this time an ankle sprain
Based on recent seasons, there seemingly was an inevitably of this moment, the Miami Heat dealing with injury uncertainty ...
Florida prisoners file federal lawsuit over deadly heat with no A/C
All three plaintiffs said they suffered from heat illness this summer amid record-high temperatures and no A/C in the concrete prison.
This Florida Farmworker Is 75 and Still Toiling in the Heat
After two heat strokes and damaged kidneys, José Delgado remains stunned that Florida banned counties from enacting ...
‘We need water.’ How South Florida groups are helping those hardest hit by extreme heat
Jean Wilfred, 70, enjoys a bottle of water as the outreach team from the Miami-Dade Homeless Trust hands out bottles of water ...
Florida accused of "deliberate indifference" to inmates in sweltering heat at Miami-Dade prison, lawsuit says
The lawsuit, in part, accuses corrections officials of violating the Americans with Disabilities Act and other federal laws ...
Prisoners plead for air conditioning in lawsuit against Florida corrections department
A lawsuit filed this week by the prison reform advocacy group Florida Justice Institute says that extreme heat in ...
Miami Heat's Tyler Herro Explains Reason For Recent Scoring Barrage
Guard Tyler Herro has carried the Miami Heat of late, perhaps too much. Herro is scoring at a high clip but it isn't leading ...
Heat Today: How Tyler Herro is keeping Miami’s offense afloat
While the Miami Heat have sputtered out of the gate, Tyler Herro’s consistency has been the team’s early beacon. Two years ...
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Florida prisoners file federal lawsuit over deadly heat with no A/C
Three Dade Correctional Institution prisoners, represented by the Florida Justice Institute, said in the class-action suit that the state facility’s heat index surpasses 100 degrees in the summer.
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How a proposed federal heat rule might have saved these workers’ lives
Although Florida doesn’t have specific heat regulations, Dominique O’Connor of the Farmworker Association of Florida said the ...