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Family members of some of the 98 people killed in a Florida condominium collapse last June say they are too deep in mourning to contemplate the nearly $1 billion settlement their attorneys negotiated on their behalf.

A settlement has been reached in a class-action lawsuit brought by families of victims and survivors of last June's condominium collapse in Surfside, Florida.

The Champlain Towers South condominium collapsed abruptly on June 24, destroying dozens of units and and burying victims under rubble.

The settlement is still pending approval from the courts.

The settlement is still pending approval from the courts.

A class-action lawsuit has been settled for $997 million — an amount far greater than most people involved expected it to reach.

Lawyers representing families of victims and survivors of the condominium collapse in Surfside, Florida, last June have told a judge that they've reached a nearly $1 billion tentative settlement.

City officials in North Miami Beach ordered residents of a five-story apartment building to evacuate after deeming the building “structurally unsound” during its 50-year recertification process.

Residents were ordered to evacuate an apartment building in North Miami Beach, Florida, after engineers found the five-story structure unsafe, a discovery that

Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates rose again this week as the key 30-year loan rate breached 4.5% and attained its highest level since the end of 2018.

Proposed changes to enhance condo safety in the aftermath of the tragedy that killed 98 in Surfside fail to pass.

People who owned units in a Florida oceanfront condominium building that collapsed last year will divide $83 million for property losses, with the compensation for families over the 98 deaths still to be determined.

The newly elected mayor of Surfside, Florida, is making the town’s response to the deaths of 98 people in the collapse of their oceanfront condominium a top priority in his new administration.

Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates rose this week as the key 30-year loan vaulted over 4% for the first time since May 2019.

The mayor of the South Florida town where 98 people died in a beachfront condominium collapse last summer has been voted out of office. Surfside Mayor Charles Burkett came in third in Tuesday's election, according to uncertified results from the Miami-Dade County Elections Department. Business owner Shlomo Danzinger won the race with 499 votes, followed by Vice Mayor Tina Paul with 476 votes and Burkett with 466.

Jimmy Patronis, Florida’s state fire marshal and chief financial officer, visited Jacksonville on Thursday to thank the Urban Search and Rescue team that’s made up of firefighters from a number of agencies in the area.

Coca-Cola posted better-than-expected sales in the fourth quarter as venues like coffee shops and movie theaters continued to reopen.

A cold snap in Florida is different than in other places.

Anti-Semitic flyers were distributed over the weekend to hundreds of homes in two South Florida cities with large Jewish populations, authorities said. Miami Beach Mayor Dan Gelber tweeted that flyers in plastic sandwich bags with small pebbles were distributed to hundreds of homes. In neighboring Surfside, the same type of flyers were distributed to homes, officials said in a “community alert" email to residents.

The fliers mixed vitriol against Judaism with comments about coronavirus measures, according to authorities.

The report comes six months after the horrific collapse of the Champlain Towers South condo building that killed 98 people, and warns of future catastrophes if changes are not immediately instituted.

A Miami judge says a summer trial is likely for lawsuits seeking millions of dollars in damages from the collapse of a Florida beachfront condominium that killed 98 people.

From the soils underground to eyes in the sky, officials say the federal probe into the deadly collapse of a Florida condominium building is gaining steam but is far from completion.

The average long-term mortgage rate in the U.S. ticked back down this week following several weeks of increases.

Australia plans to crack down on online advertisers targeting children by making social media platforms seek parental consent for users younger than 16 years old to join or face fines of $7.5 million under a draft law.

Mortgage rates are hovering near all-time lows, but that could begin to change.

Average long-term mortgage rates declined this week, with the benchmark 30-year loan slipping back below 3%.

The surge coincides with the recent run-up in bitcoin and other cyrptocurrency prices, and the two trends are converging in Miami.

Personal property recovered from the destroyed units of a South Florida condo building that collapsed will be divided into two categories: soft items and hard items.

The fight over whether the site of June’s deadly Florida condominium collapse should be sold for development or turned into a memorial boiled over during an emotional court hearing.

"The loss of 98 lives was and is still is painfully tragic. But for a group of alleged identity thieves, it was a time to make some money," said Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle.

Prosecutors say three people have been arrested on charges involving the theft of the identities of some of the victims of June’s deadly South Florida condominium collapse.

The Pentagon on Saturday released the names of the 13 U.S. service members killed as the result of a suicide bomber attack.

An oceanfront park is emerging as the leading site for a memorial to the victims of the deadly condominium building collapse in Florida.

President Joe Biden’s administration is offering its full-throated support for local cities and school boards in Texas and Florida that are defying orders by their Republican governors that prohibit mask-wearing mandates in schools.

The pandemic created new habits for many of us. One being a 50% jump in screen time.

Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday makes stops in Jacksonville, Surfside and Pensacola, where he greeted first responders, presenting them with one-time relief checks.

Facebook has removed hundreds of accounts linked to a disinformation network operating out of Russia that sought to smear COVID-19 vaccines made by Pfizer and AstraZeneca.

A total of 98 people were found dead.

A total of 98 people were found dead.

Officials in a Florida town have released body camera footage from the first police officers who responded to a building collapse that left 98 people dead.

The unsettling video provides an insight into the early minutes between the deadly condo building collapse and when authorities arrived on the scene.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The final number of dead in the Surfside condo collapse was devastating: 98 lives lost. But at one point it seemed the number could go much higher. On June 29, five days after the collapse, the number of missing was pegged at more than 150 people. It appeared likely that most would be found dead in the rubble. A number of factors account for the difference, police say. ...

The final victim of the collapse of a condominium building in Surfside, Florida has been recovered and identified.

The final victim of the condo building collapse in Florida has been identified, a relative said Monday, more than a month after the middle-of-the-night catastrophe that ultimately claimed 98 lives.

Miami-Dade County has identified the final known victim of the Surfside condominium collapse, capping more than a month of recovering bodies and remains of the missing from the rubble of the Champlain Towers South complex.

The last victim of the June 24 condominium collapse in Surfside, Fla., has been identified, a relative confirmed Monday to the Associated Press. The latest: Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava confirmed at a press conference Monday afternoon that 98 people died in the condo collapse, and all have been identified.Stay on top of the latest market trends and economic insights with Axios Markets. Subscribe for free"All 97 persons for whom we had missing persons reports have been recovered,

"Nothing we can say or do will bring back these 98 angels who left behind grieving families, beloved friends, loved ones across this community and across the world," Miami-Dade County's mayor said.

Miami-Dade county officials said police and forensic specialists will remain on site to identify human remains and recover personal belongings.

Miami-Dade County announced on Friday that fire rescue crews who have been at the site of the Surfside condo collapse since the night of the tragedy will be handing over the remainder of the recovery effort to Miami-Dade Police.

Firefighters on Friday declared the end of their search for bodies at the site of a collapsed Florida condo building, concluding a month of painstaking work to remove layers of dangerous debris that were once piled several stories high.

The search over the last four weeks identified 96 bodies in the debris, with a death toll of 97 and one person still unaccounted for.

The city of Aventura could soon become the first in Florida to require that condo associations hand over any engineering, architectural, and life-safety reports they conduct to the city.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology, a federal agency investigating the collapse, has been monitoring the site's safety.

Firefighters have officially ended their search for bodies in the debris of the collapsed Surfside condo building.

Firefighters have ended their mission in clearing debris from the collapsed Surfside condo building Friday, officials said, while police and forensic specialists continue their work to identify human remains in the disaster. Miami Dade Assistant Fire Chief Raide Jadallah told The Associated Press that the fire department’s role in recovering remains at the collapsed Surfside condominium has finished. The disaster site in Surfside is empty now, but it remains a challenge for local officials.

After the collapse that killed 97 people, a new rule requires buildings are cleared by an engineer or vacated if they are overdue for recertification.

With almost all of the debris removed from the Surfside condo collapse, the oceanfront town expects Collins Avenue to reopen soon around the site of the former Champlain Towers South complex. That’s caused another worry: can the hollowed-out condominium site still support the adjoining road?

Anastasia Gromova had just been accepted to a program teaching English in Japan and was visiting the condo for one last hurrah with friend.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — When it rains outside in Kansas City, Missouri, it also rains inside the rickety underground garage at City Hall, where parking spaces for the mayor and city manager sit below rebar and crumbled concrete that musty stormwater can easily seep through. The garage’s decay had long been obvious to Kansas City leaders. After all, they park there. But fixing it had not been an urgent priority until nearly 100 people died last month in the collapse of a condominium building in Surfsi

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.

Nearly a month since the partial building collapse that killed 97 in Surfside, the site of the collapse looks unrecognizable to those who witnessed rescuers work for weeks on the rubble — and traffic patterns around the site may see a return to normal “in the very near future.”

Another victim has been identified in the collapse of a 12-story Florida condominium that killed at least 97 people.

Many of the victims were attending a tea dance on the ground floor when the walkways fell

Miami-Dade County police on Saturday announced that one more victim in the Surfside condo collapse has been identified. Authorities have identified 95 victims who lost their lives in the disaster.

The Wimberlys have painful personal experience with what faced and now faces families who lost loved ones in the Surfside, Fla., condo collapse.

The condo building failure in Surfside, Fla., is reminiscent of the July 17, 1981, collapse of two elevated walkways at the Kansas City, Mo., Hyatt Regency that killed 114 people and injured over 200.

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The three-week-long search for victims in the partial collapse of the Champlain Towers South in Surfside has become “increasingly difficult” as the recovery workers continue to search the rubble.

More than 26 million pounds of debris have been removed from the site.

More than 26 million pounds of debris have been removed from the site.

Hackers have been committing identity theft against multiple victims of the Champlain Towers South collapse in Surfside.

Could a structural collapse happen here? A new bill would examine safety regulations and come up with an answer.

Efforts to recover human remains from the debris of a South Florida condominium are nearing an end.

A South Florida judge says all options remain on the table as a decision is made over what to do with the property where a 12-story condominium tower collapsed last month.

So far, 97 victims have been pulled from the rubble.

So far, 97 victims have been pulled from the rubble.

Efforts to recover human remains from the debris of a South Florida condo building are nearing an end. Miami-Dade police identified six more victims of last month’s Surfside condo collapse on Thursday, meaning that 92 of the 97 confirmed dead have been identified. A cause has not yet been pinpointed for the collapse, although there were several previous warnings of major structural damage at the 40-year-old building.

The number of confirmed deaths in the collapse of a condominium building in Surfside, Florida, climbed to 97 as a judge approved the sale of the site.

‘If the building comes down, it will come down on my head’, a resident told dispatchers

Recordings of 911 calls after an oceanfront Florida condominium collapsed show disbelief, panic and confusion as people tried to comprehend the disaster.

The death toll in the Miami-area condominium building collapse has climbed to 95 as crews worked for a 20th day to find victims in the rubble.

One of the victims of the Champlain Towers South condominium building collapse in Surfside grew up in the Jacksonville Beach area.

Even as crews are continuing their search for the last remaining souls that perished in the collapse of condominium town in Surfside, Florida, questions are swirling across the community about what to do with the property.

The body of 65-year-old Judy Spiegel was located in the rubble of the Champlain Towers South condominium building collapse in Surfside, her family told News4Jax.

The death toll in the Miami-area condominium collapse has climbed to 94.

Authorities searching for victims of a deadly collapse in Florida say they hope to conclude their painstaking work in the coming weeks as a team of first responders from Israel departed the site.

Across Florida, people living in the thousands of condominiums rising above the state’s 1,350 miles of coastline wonder if the building collapse in Surfside could happen to their home.

Officials say the Miami-Dade County Courthouse will begin undergoing repairs immediately because of safety concerns found during a review prompted by the deadly collapse of a nearby condominium building.

Families waiting in agony for news on relatives who were in the Florida condo building when it collapsed are turning to each other for support.

Officials say a cat that had lived on the ninth floor of a South Florida condo building before it collapsed last month has been found and returned to its family.

The death toll in the collapse of a Miami-area condo building rose to 79 on Friday, a number the mayor called “heartbreaking” as recovery workers toiled for a 16th day to find victims in the rubble.

A somber moment of silence marked the end of the two-week search for survivors of a Florida condominium collapse, as rescue workers stood at solemn attention and clergy members hugged a line of local officials while many of them sobbed.

Rescue workers now focused on finding remains instead of survivors in a Florida condominium collapse are vowing to keep up their search for victims until they have cleared all the rubble.

Emergency workers are giving up on any hope of finding survivors in a collapsed Florida condo building.

The condo building collapse in Surfside highlights the division between the tiny Florida town's new luxury buildings and those built decades ago for the middle class.

The vice mayor of a South Florida city says he wants a review of all the work done by a former municipal official who assured condo board members in another city that their building was in “very good shape” three years before it collapsed.

Officials overseeing the search at the site of the Florida condominium collapse seem increasingly somber about the prospects for finding anyone alive.

Legal action is already underway in the deadly Florida building collapse, even before rescuers have finished searching for victims.

A team of firefighters from Gainesville was among the Northeast Florida first responders assisting in the search, rescue and recovery efforts in Surfside.