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Florida Panthers appear to have damaged Stanley Cup – UPI.com
June 18 (UPI) — The back-to-back Stanley Cup champion Florida Panthers appear to have damaged one of the most iconic and hardest trophies to win in all of sports.
The Panthers won their second championship in two years on Tuesday, by downing the Edmonton Oilers 5-1 in Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Final.
As is tradition, NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman awarded the Panthers, specifically their captain, Sasha Barkov, Lord Stanley’s Cup during an on-ice ceremony after the game to be paraded around the ice surface by each player.
However, not long after winning the oldest trophy in professional sports at 133 years old it appears the Panthers have damaged the silver hardware.
Images posted online show that not only has the bottom of the 35 and 1/4 inches tall cup been damaged but its iconic bowl has been torn.
Though given white glove treatment by its handler — Hockey Hall of fame’s Keeper of the Cup Phil Pritchard — throughout the year, after being awarded following the playoffs, the trophy is known to be treated without care.
Players drink beer and Champagne from its silver goblet in which babies are also frequently placed. And Phil Kessel filled it to the brim with hot dogs after winning it in 2017 as a member of the Pittsburgh Penguins.
Other foods consumed out of the cup include poutine (on more than one occasion), various pastas, borscht and more.
The rough treatment has seen the Cup receive its fair share of injuries, most notably by Nicolas Aube-Kubel of the Colorado Avalanche who gave it a nice dent to the bottom when he fell holding it as he was joining his team for a team photo in 2022.
The Cup has a storied history, and has been repeatedly lost, damaged and even once thrown into the Rideau Canal after the Ottawa Silver Seven won the trophy in 1905.
After winning the cup, Florida Panthers brought the trophy to the Elbo Room in Fort Lauderdale on Wednesday. The team has announced there will be Championship Celebration on Sunday with a parade along A1A, starting at Riomar Street and ending near Fort Lauderdale Beach Park where a rally will take place.
The Panthers’ home is Amerant Bank Arena in Sunrise, about 16 miles west of the rally.
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Florida couple in alleged embryo mix-up have identified biological parents of ‘non-caucasian’ baby
A Florida couple who claimed a fertility clinic error led the woman giving birth to a “non-Caucasian child” who was not related to them said they have identified their child’s biological parents, according to reports.
“The results of testing delivered to us today confirm that our baby’s genetic parents have been identified,” Tiffany Score and Steven Mills said in a statement obtained by People on Wednesday.
Score and Mills filed a lawsuit in January against Fertility Center of Orlando and its head reproductive endocrinologist, Dr. Milton McNichol, alleging that another patient’s embryo was implanted in Score’s uterus in April 2025.
The mix-up led to the birth of their now 4-month-old daughter, Shea, who is not biologically related to them, the filing alleged.
“This ends one chapter in our heartbreaking journey, but it raises new issues that will have to be resolved,” the statement continued. “In addition, questions about the disposition of our own embryos are still unanswered and are even more unlikely to ever be answered.”
“Only one thing is as absolutely certain today as it was on the day our daughter was born —we will love and will be this child’s parents forever.”
The couple added that they will respect the privacy of Shea’s biological parents and will keep their identities “confidential.”
Score and Mills, who are both white, stored three viable embryos at the Longwood clinic in 2020 for in vitro fertilization, a process that creates embryos and stores them until pregnancy.
Five years later, after an embryo was implanted, the couple gave birth to a “beautiful, healthy female child” on Dec. 11, 2025, according to the lawsuit filed Jan. 22 in Orange County Circuit Court and obtained by Law & Crime.
“Tragically, while both Jane Doe and John Doe are racially Caucasian, Baby Doe displayed the physical appearance of a racially non-Caucasian child,” the lawsuit said.
Further genetic testing confirmed that baby Shea had no biological relationship to either parent — raising questions about where their embryos had gone or whether another woman was impregnated with their biological child.
The new parents had an “intensely strong emotional bond” with their child during pregnancy and wished to keep the girl, but recognized she “should legally and morally be united with her genetic parents so long as they are fit, able and willing to take her,” the lawsuit stated.
Scarola told People, following Wednesday’s development, that Shea’s biological parents have not made any requests to take her into custody.
“Remaining questions about the fate of Tiffany and Steven’s unaccounted for embryos…are still pending,” Scarola said.
“The current legal proceeding will remain open to address those matters,” the attorney added. “However, we expect that we will now also begin to focus on the need for our clients to be compensated for the expenses they have incurred and the severe emotional trauma that they endured and will continue to experience.”
The Fertility Clinic of Orlando announced earlier this month that it would close by May 20 — a decision leadership said was made after “thoughtful consideration.”
Neither Scarola nor the clinic immediately responded to The Post’s request for comment.
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Florida investigating AI role in mass shooting at university
Florida on Tuesday announced a criminal probe into whether artificial intelligence played a role in a deadly mass shooting at a university in the US state.
“If ChatGPT were a person, it would be facing charges for murder,” Uthmeier said.
Florida law allows anyone who assists or counsels someone in the commission of a crime to be treated as an “aider and abettor” bearing the same responsibility as the perpetrator, according to Uthmeier.
In exchanges with ChatGPT, the accused shooter sought advice on what type of gun and ammunition to use, as well as where and when on campus a lot of people would likely be found, the state attorney general said during a press briefing.
“Last year’s mass shooting at Florida State University was a tragedy, but ChatGPT is not responsible for this terrible crime,” an OpenAI spokesperson said.
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