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    Woman arrested after body found buried in shallow grave in backyard of Miami Gardens home

    Miami Gardens police made a grim discovery after executing a search warrant at a home. According to Miami Gardens police spokeswoman Diana Delgado-Gourgue, officers were dispatched to a home in the 200 block of Northwest 194th Terrace at 5:18 p.m. Monday. She said a search warrant was...
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    Boy dies after being buried under sand dune at state park

    A 13-year-old Utah boy has died from his injuries a day after a sand dune he was digging in collapsed and buried him at a state park, officials said Monday. The boy had been digging a tunnel into the dune at southern Utah's Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park when it collapsed on him Saturday...
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    Argo touts driverless operations in Miami and Austin, Texas

    An autonomous vehicle technology company that partners with Ford and Volkswagen says it has started driverless operations in two of eight cities where it is developing its technology. Pittsburgh-based Argo AI has pulled drivers from its autonomous cars in Miami and Austin, Texas, though it is...
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    Buffalo shooter's previous threat raises red-flag questions

    Less than a year before he was accused of opening fire and killing 10 people in a racist attack at a Buffalo, New York, grocery store, 18-year-old Payton Gendron was investigated for making a threatening statement at his high school. New York has a “red flag" law designed to keep firearms away...
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    Jill Biden heads to Latin America before hemispheric summit

    Jill Biden will visit Ecuador, Costa Rica and Panama this week to help lay the groundwork as the United States finalizes arrangements for a hemisphere-wide summit being held in Los Angeles in June, the White House announced Tuesday. The first lady departs Wednesday on her second solo trip...
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    Helen Mirren, Harrison Ford to star in 'Yellowstone' prequel

    Helen Mirren and Harrison Ford will bring their combined star power to the newest addition to the “Yellowstone” TV franchise. The pair will headline a Paramount+ series with the working title “1932,” which joins “1883” as part of what the streaming service called the “origin story” of its...
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    Students react after swastikas found drawn on Broward high school’s bathroom walls

    A disturbing discovery was made inside a Broward County high school. Several swastikas were drawn all over the walls inside a bathroom at Western High School in Davie. A parent sent Local 10 News the photos after his son spotted them at school. That parent said it’s not a funny joke and...
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    Musk wars with Twitter over his buyout deal - on Twitter

    Tesla CEO Elon Musk promised that taking over Twitter would enable him to rid the social media platform of its annoying “spam bots." Now he's arguing — without presenting any evidence — that there might be just too many of those automated accounts for the $44 billion deal to move ahead. The...
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    Record number of Cuban migrants attempting to cross into US at southern border with Mexico

    The terrain in the U.S. Border Patrol’s Tucson sector, between the U.S. and Mexico, is unforgiving. The rocky desert can be infested with rattlesnakes, and is dotted with skin-ripping cactus. Still, the number of people attempting to cross and illegally enter the U.S. keeps increasing. “We...
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    Fighting fentanyl at the US border; Local 10 granted exclusive access to law enforcement operations

    Dangerous drugs, including the synthetic opioid fentanyl, are being seized in record numbers at U.S. southern border with Mexico. Federal authorities say it is a relentless pursuit to keep those drugs from entering cities and towns nationwide, including South Florida. U.S. Customs and Border...
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    Officials warn of spike in mass-overdoses due to fentanyl

    Warnings continue about the dangers of fentanyl, a synthetic opioid that’s powerful enough to kill a person with a single, small dose. In a recent letter to law enforcement across the country, the administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration said agents are seeing a nationwide spike in...
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    Heroic first responders jumped into action in immediate moments after deadly Miami plane crash

    Numerous first responders were helping on the Haulover Inlet Bridge moments after a single engine plane crashed on Saturday. Local 10 News’ Sanela Sabovic spoke to a lifeguard and a fire fighter who were first on the scene. The Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Lifeguard, Ragnar Mendez, provided aid to...
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    Environmental groups oppose longer life for CA nuclear plant

    Dozens of environmental and anti-nuclear organizations expressed opposition Tuesday to any attempt to extend the life of California’s last operating nuclear power plant, challenging suggestions that its electricity is needed to meet potential future shortages in the nation's most populous state...
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    Ukraine's crowdfunding aims to keep donors' interest in war

    The Ukrainian government is marrying some digital marketing tools with crowdfunding and other incentives for giving to keep global attention trained on its war efforts against the Russian invasion. “There is a wave and there is this kind of euphoria, but then it abates," Mykhailo Fedorov, vice...
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    Ruined Mariupol now forever etched in Ukraine's history

    First chaos and anarchy, then despair. The ruined seaside city of Mariupol, whose capture has become a key Russian objective, is now irrevocably etched into Ukrainian history, regardless of the outcome of the war. In the end, a small group of outgunned and outmanned nationalist fighters held...
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    Florida deputy faces DUI charges

    A Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office deputy has lost her job, after officials say she was arrested for driving under the influence. Shelby Coniglio, 26, was arrested on Tuesday in St. Petersburg. According to officers Coniglio showed signs of impairment including having an odor of an alcoholic...
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    Printing error affects mailed ballots in Pennsylvania county

    An error by a company that prints ballots for several Pennsylvania counties made thousands of mail-in ballots unreadable Tuesday as voters were deciding hotly contested primaries for governor and U.S. Senate in one of the nation's most important battleground states. Officials in Lancaster...
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    Pandemic wedding blues: Fewer US couples said 'I do' in 2020

    Far fewer Americans said "I do" during the first year of the pandemic when wedding plans were upended, a new report finds. There were 1.7 million weddings in 2020, a drop of 17% from the year before and the lowest recorded since 1963, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday...
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    Powell: Fed to keep hiking rates until it controls inflation

    Chair Jerome Powell on Tuesday underscored the Federal Reserve's determination to keep raising interest rates until it has brought inflation under control — a high-stakes effort that carries the risk of causing an eventual recession. The Fed's increases in its benchmark short-term rate...
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    Lawsuit seeks $2.4M damages from Wisconsin fake GOP electors

    Two Wisconsin Democratic electors and a voter on Tuesday sued Republicans who attempted to cast electoral ballots for Donald Trump in 2020 despite Joe Biden's victory in the battleground state. Their lawsuit filed in Dane County Circuit Court alleges a conspiracy by Trump and his allies to...
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