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Some women and children were evacuated from a steel plant that is the last defensive stronghold in the bombed-out ruins of the port city of Mariupol, a Ukrainian official and Russian state news organizations said, but hundreds are believed to remain trapped with little food or water. The United...

San Diego County lawyers are seeking to wipe out an $85 million jury award to the family of man who died after being restrained by sheriff’s deputies in 2015, or get a new trial in the lawsuit that generated the case. County lawyers contend the verdict stemming from the negligence and wrongful...

A Hialeah man was arrested on Saturday after officers accused him of stealing phones at the SunFest Music Festival in West Palm Beach. Jose Garcia dropped three stolen phones valued at about $3,800 when a sergeant approached him late Friday night, according to the West Palm Beach Police...

Bill Murray on Saturday acknowledged that his behavior on set led to a complaint from a woman and the suspension of filming on his latest movie. The actor and comedian, in his first comments about the shutdown of “Being Mortal,” described the incident as a “difference of opinion” but declined...

A judge in Phoenix on Friday sentenced a Scottsdale woman who now lives in California to two years' felony probation, fines and community service for voting her dead mother's ballot in the 2020 general election. But the judge rejected a prosecutor's request that she serve at least 30 days in...

Over 1,000 firefighters backed by bulldozers and aircraft battled the largest active wildfire in the U.S. on Saturday after strong winds pushed it across some containment lines and closer to a small city in northern New Mexico. Preliminary overnight mapping imagery indicated that the fire that...

Sabrina was six weeks old. Her sister Samantha was two years old. Their mother, Marie Altidor, was 29. Their grandmother, Theresa Laverne, was 68. They were all murdered in Miramar. The Miramar Police Department described the unsolved case as “the most heinous” crime detectives have faced...

Hollywood actress and U.N. humanitarian Angelina Jolie made a surprise visit to the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on Saturday, the Lviv regional governor said on Telegram. According to Maksym Kozytskyy, Jolie — who has been a UNHCR Special Envoy for Refugees since 2011 — had come to speak with...

Naomi Judd, the Kentucky-born singer of the Grammy-winning duo The Judds and mother of Wynonna and Ashley Judd, has died. She was 76. The daughters announced her death on Saturday in a statement provided to The Associated Press. “Today we sisters experienced a tragedy. We lost our beautiful...

Miami-Dade County Commissioner Jean Monestime’s district coordinator remained behind bars on Saturday afternoon at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center. Evelt Jeudy, a defendant in a public corruption case, was accused of using his position with the Miami-Dade County government to...

The Pancreatic Cancer Action Network’s annual Purple Stride was held on Saturday at Tropical Park in Miami-Dade County. The event’s motto: “Taking steps together to end pancreatic cancer!” The California-based nonprofit organization funds research, provides patients and caregivers support...

Prices for Russian credit default swaps — insurance contracts that protect an investor against a default — plunged sharply overnight after Moscow used its precious foreign currency reserves to make a last minute debt payment on Friday. The cost for a five-year credit default swap on Russian...

Current and former Delaware politicians, family and friends of Pierre S. “Pete” du Pont IV remembered the late governor, U.S. House member and presidential candidate for reviving the state’s economy, working across the partisan aisle and sharing a cheerful spirit. Friday’s memorial service at a...

Rochester school officials are investigating allegations that a white teacher told his class of mostly Black students to pick seeds out of cotton and put on handcuffs during lessons on slavery in a seventh-grade social studies class. “It made me feel bad to be a Black person,” student Jahmiere...

Detectives are searching for two-year-old Maritza Cherident’s killer, a hit-and-run driver in Miami-Dade County. Her mother remained hospitalized on Saturday at Jackson Memorial Hospital. Her father, Mikenson Cherident, was heartbroken. The Haitian parents had big dreams for their only daughter...

A massive drought-starved reservoir on the Colorado River has become so depleted that Las Vegas now is pumping water from deeper within Lake Mead where other states downstream don't have access. The Southern Nevada Water Authority announced this week that its Low Lake Level Pumping Station is...

A 23-year-old man was awaiting extradition on Saturday at the Broward County main jail. He is facing charges for a hit-and-run crash in Miami-Dade County. Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested Ameko Anton Jacques on Friday. Miami-Dade Police Department detectives identified him as the...

The 500 audience members were sitting in neat rows, and they’d definitely gotten the memo on attire: All were perfectly dressed in a classic gray Thom Browne suit. They were very quiet, too, perhaps because they knew Browne’s show Friday evening was a special occasion, held in New York rather...

A British lawmaker from the governing Conservative Party has resigned after admitting he watched pornography on his phone in the House of Commons chamber. Neil Parish, a member of Parliament since 2010, announced his decision Saturday after pressure from members of his own party who sought to...

Indian authorities on Saturday seized $725 million from Chinese smartphone company Xiaomi, accusing it of breaking the country's foreign exchange laws by making illegal remittances abroad, officials said. The Enforcement Directorate, India's financial investigation agency, tweeted that it had...