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WTVJ, Chris Dillon and his boyfriend, Angel Nunez, were celebrating New Year’s Eve waiting for the clock to hit midnight. “I grabbed the back of his head, and he grabbed the back of my head and forcefully had the most beautiful kiss, it was so beautiful, backed off, I said ‘I love you,’ he said ‘I love you,’ and then he fell,” Dillon told the news outlet. “I did not think he was dead.”Dillon tried to revive Nunez, who was unresponsive.

Riptide Music Festival is returning to the Fort Lauderdale Beach Park for two days of fun, sun and jams on Saturday, Dec. 2 and Sunday, Dec.

Former NFL running back Alex Collins has died in a tragic motorcycle crash in Florida. The ex-football star was traveling via

Def Leppard’s drummer Rick Allen suffered a head injury after he and another woman were assaulted Monday outside of the Four Seasons resort in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.Max Hartley, 19, was allegedly hiding behind a pole and waiting for the drummer outside of the hotel when Allen, 59, came outside to smoke a cigarette, according to a police report obtained by The Post.It was then that Hartley allegedly charged the drummer at full speed from behind and knocked him over, the Fort Lauderdale Police Department said.The report claims that a woman came out to help the rock star but was also knocked over by the teen.The woman attempted to flee by crawling back to the hotel, according to authorities, but was dragged by her hair back to the scene by Hartley. By the time police arrived, Hartley had reportedly fled to a nearby hotel but was later apprehended by cops after allegedly damaging several cars in a parking garage.Hartley was charged with elder abuse, battery and criminal mischief and was later released after posting bond.Reps for Def Leppard declined to comment to The Post.Allen, who lost his arm in a 1984 car accident, was in Florida to co-headline a concert with Mötley Crüe at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino on Sunday.

deployment of tear gas against protesters, the shoving of a kneeling protester, the shooting of a woman with a rubber bullet, and controversies stemming from the use of facial recognition technology to identify protestors — which critics have said has difficulty making accurate identifications of people of color.At the time, Scirotto said he wanted to ensure the department fostered better relations with people in the community who have historically been suspicious of, or had fraught relations with, police — a goal that many felt was a positive step. But in the fall, Scirotto promoted a list of minority employees, which led three white officers and one Hispanic officer to file complaints with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleging that he was promoting people in a biased manner.The subsequent investigation into Scirotto’s actions found that “almost every witness,” out of 21 interviewed, “was dissatisfied” with Scirotto’s approach to promotions and “most believed that Chief Scirotto made clear his intention to promote based on race, gender or sexual orientation.”“Some believed it was about time changes were made, but stated if promotions were based on things such as race it would even hurt or undermine the people promoted,” the report said.The investigation report accused Scirotto of saying that photos on a conference room wall were “too white” and vowing: “I’m gonna change that.” It also alleged that, in a separate incident, Scirotto passed over a white man with 20 years tenure with the department for a promotion, instead narrowing the field down to two candidates of color, saying: “Which one is blacker?”Lagerbloom defended his decision to fire Scirotto, telling The Associated Press: “There’s everything we

Motorsports competitor Travis Pastrana has been hospitalized in Florida after a scary crash-landing caught on video as part of a parachute stunt that went awry.

David’s footsteps after signing his first ever professional football contract. The 19-year-old has signed us with US side Fort Lauderdale, who operate as the reserve team for the former England star’s Inter Miami franchise.