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Rapper Gunna, who was arrested last month on a racketeering charge, said in a message posted on social media that 2022 has been one of the best years of his life, “despite this difficult situation.” The rapper, whose given name is Sergio Kitchens, proclaimed his innocence and said the picture...

A woman was arrested in the Florida Keys for allegedly attacking her ex-husband with a knife. According to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office, 36-year-old Vanessa Diaz went into the home belonging to her 45-year-old ex at approximately 9 p.m. Monday. The victim told police she was angry over...

The leaders of seven NATO nations from across Europe pledged their support Tuesday for Sweden and Finland's bids to join the alliance and for providing more heavy weapons to help Ukraine battle Russia. The support was voiced after an informal gathering at Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s...

A Hialeah resident charged in a $4.2 million Medicare fraud scheme is being held as a flight risk after officials said he tried to flee the U.S. on a Jet Ski. Court records show that a federal judge in Miami ordered 54-year-old Ernesto Cruz Graveran to be detained pending trial Monday...

A police military-like unit responded to the threat of a gunman who was standing on a balcony at the Drake Tower Condominium on Tuesday afternoon in Fort Lauderdale. According to Detective Ali Adamson, crisis negotiators with the Fort Lauderdale Police Department talked to the man as officers...

The Broward County Sheriff’s Office has fired its top cop in the city of Parkland for “providing false information,” but the agency isn’t elaborating further. Capt. Craig Calavetta joined BSO in 1999 as a road patrol deputy and began leading the Parkland district in 2021. He was fired Monday...

Federal agents detained a group of 20 migrants who were stranded on Monday and Tuesday on uninhabited islands west of the Florida Keys. Chief Patrol Agent Walter N. Slosar, of the U.S. Border Patrol’s Miami sector, reported the U.S. Coast Guard and U.S. Customs and Border Protection rescued...

A reality show inspired by Netflix's hit series “Squid Game” is coming to the streaming service, but with far less dire consequences promised for contestants. In the South Korean-produced drama, players' lives were at stake. With “Squid Game: The Challenge,” the “worst fate is going home...

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell announced his support Tuesday for his chamber's emerging bipartisan gun agreement, boosting momentum for modest but notable election-year action by Congress on an issue that's deadlocked lawmakers for three decades. The Kentucky Republican said he hoped an...

The Venezuelan opposition group backed by the United States will file a complaint with the Inter-American Court of Human Rights for the physical attack its leader suffered over the weekend during a visit to a rural community as part of a tour meant to unite his party and allies. Juan Guaidó on...

A friend of a 15-year-old boy accidentally shot and killed by his stepmother in a Pembroke Pines home over the weekend said he became so frightened with how the woman was handling the gun that he left the house just moments before she fired the fatal shot. Speaking to journalists in Spanish...

Julie Andrews was honored by the American Film Institute last week for a Hollywood career that couldn’t have started more supercalifragilisticexpialidocious-ly — with an Oscar-winning performance in a film that would become an instant classic: “Mary Poppins.” Before the AFI Life Achievement...

New York’s highest court rejected former President Donald Trump’s last-ditch effort to avoid testifying in the state attorney general’s civil investigation into his business practices on Tuesday, clearing the way for his deposition next month. The state’s Court of Appeals said there was no...

Florida is known for its beaches, but what about beach bears? Brooke Burgess Olive was relaxing this weekend on Pensacola Beach, when she suddenly saw a black bear sprinting across the sand. Olive grabbed her phone and started rolling. Other nearby families heard the commotion, and also went...

Construction equipment manufacturer Caterpillar said Tuesday it is packing up its headquarters from its longtime home state of Illinois and moving to Texas. Caterpillar Inc. said that it’s transferring its global base to the Dallas suburb of Irving, from Deerfield, outside Chicago. The company...

Fisher-Price and U.S. product safety regulators are telling parents not to let their infants fall asleep in the company's rockers after 13 infants died in the devices between 2009 and 2021. The deaths happened when the babies fell asleep in Fisher Price's Infant-to-Toddler and...

For more than a century they were buried far from home, in a small cemetery on the grounds of the U.S. Army War College. Now they're heading home. The Army began disinterring the remains of eight Native American children who died at a government-run boarding school at the Carlisle Barracks...

French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in Romania on Tuesday to hold bilateral talks and meet with French troops stationed there who are part of NATO’s response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Macron’s visit to Romania, a European Union member since 2007 and a NATO member since 2004, marked...

An effort to be more inclusive or attempted intrusion by the federal government? Democrats and Republicans took starkly contrasting views Tuesday of proposed legislation that would put voluntary questions about sexual orientation and gender identity on federal surveys. Under the bill debated by...

There have been five monkeypox cases reported in Florida since the beginning of the year — and all of them were in Broward County, according to the Florida Department of Health’s data Tuesday afternoon. The infectious viral disease that typically begins with flu-like symptoms and lymph node...