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As Spirit Airlines ceases operations, resulting in 4,853 employees in Florida being laid off by next Wednesday, politicians are debating who is to blame for the Dania Beach-based carrier’s demise.
Three hundred and fifty-eight. That’s how many times Akil P. Patel, Florida’s luckiest lottery player, beat the odds and cashed in a scratch-off ticket of at least $600 since 2015. To expect to win that many times, Patel would need to buy enough tickets to stack – like a deck of cards – from the ground past the top of New York City’s One World Trade Center, nearly 1,800 feet up.
Family members involved in a wrongful death lawsuit resulting from the 2024 fatal jet crash on I-75 in Naples are seeking to move their case to another judge who is handling a similar case from the same crash. Both suits were filed in 2025.