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An employee at a supermarket has been arrested after he was accused of placing his cell phone near a toilet after escorting a woman to the bathroom, according to police. The incident happened on Thursday when police were called out to the Presidente Supermarket at 8100 North Miami Ave. A...

Gwendolyn Whitfield is a hero to the survivors of the shooting on a Broward County public bus last month. Acting Chief Luis Alvarez said Whitfield’s “quick actions” saved lives. While a gunman fired more than 20 shots at passengers on the bus she was driving, Whitfield pushed through traffic to...

Federal prosecutors on Friday urged a jury to reject a retired New York City police officer's argument that he was acting in self-defense when he swung a flagpole at police officers and tackled one of them during the U.S. Capitol riot. Thomas Webster, a 20-year NYPD veteran, is the first...

The United Methodist Church’s Council of Bishops, ending a five-day meeting Friday, acknowledged the inevitable breakup of their denomination – a schism that will widen this weekend with the launch of a global movement led by theologically conservative Methodists. The breakaway denomination...

Thousands of firefighters labored to slow the advance of destructive wildfires in the Southwestern U.S. as residents braced for dangerously dry, warm and windy conditions in northern New Mexico and adjacent areas that have made the blazes hard to contain. At least 166 homes have been destroyed...

The challenging jury selection process in the death penalty case against Nikolas Cruz for the 2018 Valentine’s Day massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland will continue on Monday. The Broward County Clerk of Courts summoned 11 prospective jurors after Broward Circuit Judge...

New York New York will hold its congressional and state Senate primaries on Aug. 23, a state judge ordered Friday. Steuben County Judge Patrick McAllister said that special master Jonathan Cervas will finish drawing up new maps by May 20. In the meantime, state and local election officials...

A Miami woman became a millionaire, after picking up a winning scratch off ticket at a local pharmacy, the Florida Lottery announced on Friday. Yaimara Montes de Oca, 32, of Miami, claimed a $2,500 A Week for Life top prize from the $2,500 A WEEK FOR LIFE Scratch-Off game at the Lottery’s Miami...

The premier of the British Virgin Islands appeared in federal court in Miami on Friday after his arrest on cocaine-smuggling charges, while Britain’s governor of the Caribbean territory announced that a corruption inquiry found ample reason to suspend the islands’ elected government. The arrest...

In the three days after Elon Musk engineered a deal to buy Twitter, he sold roughly $8.5 billion worth of shares in Tesla to help fund the purchase. Musk reported the sale of 9.6 million shares in filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday and Friday. The trades were made...

A judge on Friday threw out part of the case against Kim Kardashian in former reality TV star Blac Chyna's lawsuit while the jury deliberates on the elements that remain. Judge Gregory Alarcon ruled that Chyna's attorney Lynne Ciani did not provide any statement during the trial from Kardashian...

A baby tree kangaroo that's just poking its nose out of its mother's pouch is the first of its species born at the Bronx Zoo since 2008, zoo officials announced Friday. The birth of the Matschie’s tree kangaroo joey “is an exciting birth for the Bronx Zoo and a unique opportunity for people to...

A prominent Polish lawyer who has represented leading political opposition figures and was treated as a suspect in a politically sensitive case was cleared by a court on Friday. Roman Giertych was targeted by Pegasus spyware in 2019 when he represented Donald Tusk, a former Polish prime...

Miami Commissioners Ken Russell said Friday “the biggest controversy” with David Beckham’s dream of building a stadium for his Major League Soccer team at a public golf course was that there was no need for a competitive bidding process. Late Thursday night, during a definitive public meeting...

“American Idol” winner Laine Hardy was arrested Friday after being accused of putting a listening device in his ex-girlfriend's college dorm room, authorities said. Hardy, 21, of Livingston, Louisiana, faces a felony charge of interception and disclosure of wire, electronic or oral...

When you go to a doctor’s office for an eye exam, you normally walk in and prepare for the puff of smoke in your eye and the number of other tests you’ll have to sit down for, but what if they was a way to change that entire process? The simplicity of “Heru”, a named meant to closely mirror a...

A bomb scare set off scenes of panic at Israel's airport after an American family showed up with an unexploded artillery shell they had found in the Golan Heights and intended to bring back as a souvenir. Videos circulating online showed passengers ducking for cover, running and screaming at...

Donald Trump's lawyers, seeking to reverse their client's $10,000-per-day contempt fine, provided a New York judge Friday with an affidavit in which the former president claims he didn't turn over subpoenaed documents to the state attorney general’s office because he doesn't have them. The...

Florida Supreme Court Justice Alan Lawson announced plans to retire Friday, which gives Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis the opportunity to have appointed four of the seven justices. Lawson’s retirement will be effective Aug. 31, well ahead of DeSantis’ November reelection bid. Lawson was...

A Georgia man affiliated with the far-right Oath Keepers militia group became the second Capitol rioter to plead guilty to seditious conspiracy for his actions leading up and through the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection. The sentencing guidelines for Brian Ulrich, who also pleaded guilty to...