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A Texas woman suspected in the fatal shooting of professional cyclist Anna Moriah Wilson at an Austin home has been arrested in Costa Rica, the U.S. Marshals Service said Thursday. Kaitlin Marie Armstrong, 34, was arrested Wednesday a hostel, the Marshals Service said in a statement. Armstrong...

U.S. regulators told COVID-19 vaccine makers Thursday that any booster shots tweaked for the fall will have to add protection against the newest omicron relatives. The Food and Drug Administration said the original vaccines would be used for anyone still getting their first series of shots. But...

Detectives need help with solving Clayton McFarlane’s murder on Tuesday in Lauderhill. McFarlane was killed shortly before 10 p.m., near the intersection of Northwest 52 Avenue and 25 Street, police said. According to the Lauderhill Police Department, witnesses told officers they heard arguing...

The Supreme Court declined on Thursday to take up a case involving a COVID-19 vaccine requirement for health care workers in New York that does not offer an exemption for religious reasons. The court's action follows a decision in December in which the justices declined an emergency request to...

The 2022 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction has gone to Jesmyn Ward, who at 45, is the youngest person to receive the library’s fiction award and is being honored for her lifetime of work examining racism and social injustice. Ward's “Salvage the Bones” earned the 2011 National Book...

A huge Belgian chocolate factory has halted production after detecting salmonella in a batch of chocolates. The Barry Callebaut company said Thursday that its plant in Wieze – which it says is the world’s largest chocolate factory – shut down all production lines as a precaution while the...

Mary J. Blige’s 2022 is going pretty well. Her new album landed in the top 10 of Billboard's R&B;/Hip-Hop Albums chart, and she was featured at the Super Bowl halftime show. Now she's been tapped for a concert like no other. Blige will host a one-night-only live performance to celebrate her...

A woman has died after being struck and killed by a Broward County Transit bus at a Fort Lauderdale bus terminal Thursday. The crash happened at around 6:45 a.m. at the Broward Central Bus Terminal off Northwest First Avenue and Broward Boulevard, Broward Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Carey...

The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear an appeal from North Carolina Republicans that could drastically limit state court authority over congressional redistricting, as well as elections for Congress and the presidency. The justices will consider whether state courts, finding violations...

The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the Biden administration properly ended a Trump-era policy forcing some U.S. asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico. The justices' 5-4 decision for the administration came in a case about the “Remain in Mexico” policy under President Donald Trump. President...

Officials say a 44-year-old Florida woman bought her infant grandchild and a stash of cocaine and heroin to a recent prison visit. But guards searching visitors at the DeSoto Correctional Institution on Sunday found nearly 100 grams of drugs during the check-in process. DeSoto County Sheriff’s...

Broward County officials say they’re cracking down on property fraud and they’ve created a new program to help homeowners avoid becoming victims of a scam. Broward County Property Appraiser Marty Kiar was recently a guest on Sheriff Gregory Tony’s podcast and he discussed his office’s Owner...

In a blow to the fight against climate change, the Supreme Court on Thursday limited how the nation’s main anti-air pollution law can be used to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from power plants. By a 6-3 vote, with conservatives in the majority, the court said that the Clean Air Act does not...

A judge cleared the way Thursday for abortions to resume in Kentucky, temporarily blocking the state’s near-total ban on the procedure that was triggered by the Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade. Abortion-rights groups fought for the ruling that pauses the 2019 Kentucky law for...

President Joe Biden said Thursday that he would support eliminating the Senate filibuster to protect access to abortion after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. "If the filibuster gets in the way, it's like voting rights," Biden said during a press conference in Madrid, where he was...

A Palm Beach County high school student is literally perfect. 17-year-old Justin Ricketts scored a perfect 1600 on his Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT). That’s a perfect 800 on both math and evidence-based reading and writing. Ricketts will be a senior at Suncoast Community High School this...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency is releasing the largest update to its mobile application in a decade, the agency announced today. FEMA is releasing the app at the beginning of a hurricane season that experts predict will be above average and a wildfire season that's already devastating...

Former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder invoked his right against self-incrimination Thursday and declined to answer questions at a civil trial arising from lead contamination in Flint's water in 2014-15. Snyder was called as a witness in federal court in Ann Arbor, two days after the Michigan Supreme...

While the amount of activity across the tropics Thursday is uncharacteristically busy for June, the quality of the disturbances is more typical of June, with systems struggling to overcome usual early season hurdles. To this point, Potential Tropical Cyclone Two sailing across the southern...

Metro Phoenix's Maricopa County had among the biggest population growth in white, Black and Hispanic residents last year, as well as the biggest increase overall of any U.S. county, while Riverside and San Bernardino counties in California's Inland Empire had some of the largest jumps in...