The intersection of A1A and Las Olas is seen Sunday, June 28. Broward County announced it is joining Miami-Dade County and closing beaches on the July 4 weekend. (Joe Cavaretta/AP) The state of Florida has been on the forefront of the country’s reopening effort in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, but due to a recent spike in cases, many of its popular beaches will remain closed to residents and tourists during Fourth of July weekend. Miami will keep its beaches and parks off-limits from Friday, July 3, through Tuesday, July 7, while Fort Lauderdale announced a closure from July 3-5. These restrictions have been put in place due to fears from officials that, during the holiday, people won’t follow the rules put in place to limit the spread of the virus. Benigno Enriquez, right, elbow-bumps Miami Mayor Francis Suarez as Suarez hands out masks to help prevent the spread of the new coronavirus, at a mask distribution event, Friday, June 26, in a COVID-19 hotspot of the Little Havan
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — The family of a visiting Chinese scholar whose body was never recovered after a former University of Illinois doctoral student kidnapped and killed her has been told the woman’s remains may be in a landfill in Vermillion County in central Illinois.
The (Champaign) News-Gazette reports that Steve Beckett, who represents the family of Yingying Zhang, says the information about the remains comes from attorneys representing Brendt Christensen.
Christensen was convicted in federal court last month and sentenced to life in prison after prosecutors sought the death penalty.
Since he was arrested after Zhang’s 2017 disappearance, Zhang’s family has repeatedly urged him to reveal what he did with the body so they can return it to China for burial. But Christensen didn’t disclose that information through his trial and sentencing.
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