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A South Florida family is seeking justice after their loved one was killed in a hit-and-run crash just over a year ago in Miami-Dade County. Desiree Martinez wants to know who killed her husband Johnnie Cruz, leaving him to die on Northwest 22nd Avenue and 133rd Street at 5:40 a.m. on May 30...

Margate police are investigating a fatal shooting that was reported late Monday night. According to authorities, police responded to an apartment complex at 5740 Lakeside Drive North around 11 p.m. after receiving reports about a shooting. Police said officers arrived at the scene to find a...

A United States Coast Guard crew repatriated 124 Haitian migrants found on a boat off the country’s coast amid an ongoing surge in migrants from the Caribbean nation. According to an agency news release, Coast Guard Cutter Diligence spotted the 35-foot sailing vessel approximately 17 miles...

President Joe Biden's administration is putting final touches on an agenda for next week's Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, but it's still unclear if Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador will attend. His absence would be a setback for the United States, which is hosting the...

Blood smears the stairwell floor and the shards of glass strewn about while shrapnel pockmarks the walls. Outside, a crater between two apartment blocks marks the spot where the rocket hit in the very early hours of Tuesday in the eastern Ukrainian city of Sloviansk. Authorities said three...

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission confirmed Tuesday that the parasail company involved in a fatal accident on Memorial Day near Pigeon Key was Light House Parasail Inc., which is based in Marathon. According to officials, a woman and her two sons, who were visiting from...

A possible alligator attack was responsible for the death of a 47-year-old man in the Tampa Bay area Tuesday, according to police. Tampa ABC affiliate WFTS reports that the man, whose identity has not been released, was looking for frisbees in a lake at John S. Taylor Park in Largo when the...

Former Trump adviser Peter Navarro revealed in a draft court filing Tuesday that he has been subpoenaed to appear before a grand jury this week as part of the Justice Department's sprawling probe into the deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. Navarro, who was a trade adviser to...

A South Florida business owner was arrested on accusations that he repeatedly sexually harassed his female employees at the Colombian restaurant he owns in Doral. Felix Cortez, 55, was taken into custody Friday on charges of aggravated stalking and battery. According to his arrest report, the...

A man’s doorbell camera caught the moment lightning struck his southwest Miami-Dade County home, sparking a fire on its roof. It all happened Monday afternoon at Emmanuel Cobb’s home in the 22600 block of Southwest 109th Court. “I just heard a loud bang,” Cobb said. “I knew it struck close...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says it’s time for the government to “move on” after months of scandal. Some of his Conservative Party colleagues think it’s time he moved on instead. A dozen Conservative lawmakers have called for a vote on Johnson’s leadership since last week, when an...

There was a small tribute on Tuesday at a gas station in Miami-Dade County after a 56-year-old man who worked there died. Relatives identified him as Mario Laza, who worked as a mechanic at the Westar gas station at North Royal Poinciana Boulevard and Curtiss Parkway in Miami Springs. Madelyn...

Authorities say a central Florida man was killed from an apparent bonfire explosion over the Memorial Day weekend. Volusia County Sheriff’s officials say investigators haven’t yet determined what caused the explosion during the outdoor party at a home near DeLand early Monday. The 51-year-old...

A lawyer for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign was acquitted Tuesday of lying to the FBI when he pushed information meant to cast suspicions on Donald Trump and Russia in the run-up to the 2016 election. The jury in the case of Michael Sussmann deliberated on Friday afternoon and...

Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming services and music platforms this week. MOVIES — Screenwriter and comedian Joel Kim Booster looked to Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” as the inspiration for his modern...

The unofficial start of summer over the Memorial Day weekend offers a troubling glimpse of what lies ahead for travelers during the peak vacation season. U.S. airlines canceled more than 2,800 flights from Thursday through Monday, or about 2% of their schedules, according to tracking service...

Pembroke Pines police quashed rumors of a threat to a charter school in the city Tuesday morning. In a Twitter thread, the department said it had been made aware of rumors circulating at Franklin Academy at 5000 SW 207th Terrace. The agency said its Threat Assessment Team was unable to identify...

Fresh off her breakthrough role in Steven Spielberg's “West Side Story,” Rachel Zegler will star in Lionsgate's planned “Hunger Games” prequel. The studio announced Tuesday that Zegler will play Lucy Gray Baird in “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes,” an extension of the...

A Florida man was killed in an accidental explosion over the Memorial Day weekend, according to Volusia County Sheriff’s deputies. Deputies responded to a call on Monday and said they pronounced the victim, Michael D. Riedinger, 51, dead at the scene due to severe injuries appeared to have been...

A jury has resumed deliberations after a sensational six-week trial to resolve defamation claims by Johnny Depp and his ex-wife Amber Heard over their volatile and unhappy marriage. The seven-person civil jury heard closing arguments Friday and deliberated for about two hours before leaving for...