Surfside

The probe into the 2021 collapse of a beachfront condominium building that killed 98 people in South Florida should be completed by the fourth anniversary of the disaster, federal officials said Thursday.

A year after 98 people were killed in the Surfside condominium collapse, family members and the community honored those lost in the tragedy at a memorial service Friday.

A judge has given final approval to a settlement of more than $1 billion for victims of the collapse of a Florida beachfront condominium. Ninety-eight people died when the 12-story Champlain Towers South suddenly collapsed. It was one of the deadliest building failures in U.S. history. The decision by Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Michael Hanzman on Thursday comes one day before...