P. Zinner, film editor of Deer Hunter

Peter Zinner, who won an Academy Award for editing the 1978 Vietnam War film The Deer Hunter and co-edited the first two Godfather films, has died.

Committee proposes revamp of sales taxes

Lawmakers would have to review exemptions and revamp Florida’s sales tax system under proposals unanimously introduced Friday by a committee of the Taxation and Budget Reform Commission.

Market Watch

Shares rose the most since Aug. 6, gaining $3.50, or 6.1 percent, to $60.66. The world’s largest seller of supplemental health insurance said it has an exclusive distribution deal in Japan, its biggest market, …

South Florida employers added jobs in October

The October jobs report is a picture with two different views: In South Florida, employers added 12,700 jobs to their payrolls in October, as employment in the construction industry stabilized, but statewide …

Former Cuban official Del Valle

Gen. Sergio del Valle Jimenez, a doctor in Fidel Castro’s rebel army in the late 1950s and army chief of staff during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, has died, state media reported Friday.

Fort Lauderdale: Health Education Alliance tackles childhood obesity

The Community Health Education Alliance will host a summit on childhood obesity from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. Sunday at the African-American Research Library & Cultural Center, 2650 Sistrunk Blvd.

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Honored for saving a man’s life

Hope Hasan, a nurse in the Newport News City Jail, was handing out medication when she came across the inmate hanging by a sheet from the upper bars of his cell.