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Charlie Crist was in Overtown on Friday after an invitation from two well-known political leaders, Miami-dade school board member dr. Dorothy Bendross Mendinghall and Christine King, chair of the Miami City Commission. Crist is here to get their blessing and ask for votes. He’s a political...

A senior official at the European Union medicines agency said Thursday that many nations in the bloc are seeing a new wave of COVID-19, driven by highly-transmissible mutations of the omicron variant. The European Medicines Agency’s Marco Cavaleri told an online briefing that the BA.4 and BA.5...

Backers of a proposed initiative in Oregon that would require people to secure permits to buy firearms say concern about recent mass shootings have buoyed their effort and they have enough signatures to place it on the November ballot. The Rev. Mark Knutson, a chief petitioner of the...

President Joe Biden spoke by phone Friday with the sister of Paul Whelan, an American who has been imprisoned in Russia for more than three years, according to the White House. Biden's phone call to Elizabeth Whelan came after Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris s poke earlier this week to...

A man who police said is responsible for several sexual batteries that happened between June of 1996 and November of 1997 in Margate will remain in jail without bond. Russell McLean was arrested in May in Jamaica where he was a faculty member at Northern Caribbean University, which identifies...

An environmentally concerned fisherman from Miami-Dade County has a long list of unanswered questions after finding leaky unmarked cylinders at sea. Paul Ewald said he went out to fish with his son and his friend on Sunday when they spotted large plastic fuel containers floating at sea. “There...

The family of a Black man in Connecticut, paralyzed when a police van without seatbelts braked suddenly, asked federal authorities Friday to file civil rights charges against the officers involved. The driver was taking Randy Cox, 36, to a police station in New Haven, Connecticut, on June 19...

Arizona's governor has signed a law that restricts how the public can video police at a time when there’s growing pressure across the U.S. for greater law enforcement transparency. Civil rights and media groups opposed the measure that Republican Gov. Doug Ducey signed Thursday. The law makes...

Ten months after Hurricane Ida damaged a museum celebrating New Orleans’ African American parading culture, the Backstreet Cultural Museum is reopening. A parade is planned Saturday afternoon from the original building to the new museum site just blocks away in the city's Treme neighborhood...

A California panel on Friday denied parole for a follower of cult leader Charles Manson convicted of slayings more than a half-century ago. Bruce Davis was previously recommended for parole seven times, but those findings were rejected by three consecutive governors. Parole commissioners told...

The U.S. government's auto safety watchdog is sending investigators to another Tesla crash, this time one that killed two people along Interstate 75 in Florida. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration confirmed Friday that it sent a Special Crash Investigations team to probe the...

Rita Lipoff is among the Broward County residents who are protesting against a tower at West Lake Park, a Broward property in Hollywood. They have been fighting against it for about a year. “There are a multitude of rules and laws and procedures that they violated to put this tower here,”...

Elon Musk’s tumultuous $44 billion bid to buy Twitter is on the verge of collapse — after the Tesla CEO sent a letter to Twitter's board Friday saying he is terminating the acquisition. Twitter did not immediately respond to a message for comment. It is not entirely clear whether Twitter's...

A 39-year-old mother who had just moved back to the area was hit by a car on Powerline Road in Pompano Beach and her family is desperate to find the person responsible for the driver who left her for dead. “Somebody needs to pay for what you did to my sister,” said Reanna McTeague. Karina...

The Biden administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to allow it to put in place guidance that prioritizes deportation of people in the country illegally who pose the greatest public safety risk. The emergency request to the court follows conflicting decisions by federal appeals courts in...

An attorney with the Arizona attorney general's office told a judge Friday that a 2021 state “personhood” law that gives all legal rights to unborn children can't be used to bring criminal charges against abortion providers. The comment from Assistant Solicitor General Kate Sawyer came during a...

Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies evacuated a beach area on Friday afternoon just north of the Pompano Beach Beach Pier. BSO tasked a bomb squad with examining a suspicious device. Deputies also blocked access to the beach near the intersection of North Ocean Boulevard and Northeast Third...

A 19-year-old volunteer was secretly recording people inside a Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden restroom, according to the Coral Gables Police Department. A Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden employee reported finding a mobile phone on May 21 that was recording a video inside a unisex restroom...

A federal appeals court on Friday narrowed the range of documents House Democrats are entitled to in their years-long investigation of Donald Trump's finances. The decision from the federal appeals court in Washington almost certainly won't be the last word in the legal fight that began in...

Police imposed a curfew in Sri Lanka’s capital and surrounding areas on Friday, a day before a planned protest demanding the resignations of the country’s president and prime minister because of the economic crisis that has caused severe shortages of essential goods and disrupted people’s...