Caroline Baumel News Today

Families called the proposal insulting to those who died in the building collapse, stating that it minimizes how the deceased will be honored.

SURFSIDE, Fla. - Town leaders are set to decide Wednesday on a divisive plan for an oceanfront condo project that would rise in place of Champlain Towers South, where 98 people died two years ago in a sudden collapse that horrified the nation and led to widespread building safety revisions in Florida. The Town Commission's vote - an effort to begin moving on from that disaster, though its official cause remains undetermined - will probably be steeped in the same anguish and anger that has c...