Search results

  1. WPLG

    Kendall Crime Suppression Team make drug bust after anonymous tip of suspicious activity

    Five subjects were detained on Friday morning after Kendall Crime Suppression Team received a Crime Stoppers tip that suspicious activity was occurring at the rear parking lot of 9360 SW 72 Street. After Kendall CST established surveillance, at approximately 9 a.m., Kendall CST detectives...
  2. WPLG

    Biden to push infrastructure plans in New Hampshire

    President Joe Biden will try to demonstrate that last year's infrastructure law is alleviating the country's supply chain debacles when he visits Portsmouth Harbor in New Hampshire on Tuesday. Biden’s destination is the state’s only deep water harbor, making it a critical way station for home...
  3. WPLG

    Jury questionnaire released in Parkland school shooter’s penalty phase trial

    During the first six days of the jury pre-selection process in the Parkland school shooting capital case, prospective jurors who have not been excused for a hardship have been handed a jury questionnaire, and a day in May to be brought back for future questioning. The document includes general...
  4. WPLG

    South Africa launches relief for Durban flooding; 443 dead

    Declaring a national state of disaster, South Africa has allocated $67 million to help those hit by floods that have killed at least 443 people in the eastern city of Durban and the surrounding Kwazulu-Natal province. Nearly 4,000 homes have been destroyed and more than 40,000 people displaced...
  5. WPLG

    Libya's rival officials conclude election talks without deal

    Rival Libyan officials wrapped up weeklong talks in the Egyptian capital without an agreement on constitutional arrangements for elections, the United Nations said Tuesday. Twelve lawmakers from Libya’s east-based parliament and 12 from the High Council of State, an advisory body in the capital...
  6. WPLG

    FBI: Man wearing hat, face mask robs Space Coast Credit Union in Miami-Dade

    The FBI released surveillance images Tuesday of a man who they said robbed a bank in Miami-Dade County last week. The robbery was reported just before 5 p.m. Friday at the Space Coast Credit Union at 7171 SW 117th Ave. According to FBI spokesman Jim Marshall, the man, who was wearing a black...
  7. WPLG

    DeSantis goes after Disney’s Reedy Creek Improvement District

    Gov. Ron DeSantis’s effort to redefine the divisions of power in Florida could be an opportunity for retaliatory action against Disney. The special legislative session, held from Tuesday to Friday, will allow state lawmakers to redraw Florida’s congressional map. DeSantis warned on March 4th...
  8. WPLG

    J&J suspends COVID-19 vaccine sales forecast

    Johnson & Johnson is suspending sales forecasts for its COVID-19 vaccine only a few months after saying the shot could bring in as much as $3.5 billion this year. A global supply surplus and uncertainty about future demand — fueled in part by vaccine hesitancy in some developing markets —...
  9. WPLG

    12-year-old boy reported missing in Deerfield Beach

    The Broward Sheriff’s Office Missing Persons Unit is searching for a 12-year-old boy from Deerfield Beach who has been reported missing. According to BSO spokeswoman Claudinne Caro, Jenavious Janvier was last seen around 4:30 p.m. Monday in the area of 700 Northwest 40th Street. Jenavious is...
  10. WPLG

    Biden finalizes rule restoring broad review of big projects

    The Biden administration is restoring federal regulations guiding environmental reviews of major infrastructure projects such as highways and pipelines that were scaled back by the Trump administration in a bid to fast-track the projects. A rule finalized Tuesday will restore key provisions of...
  11. WPLG

    2 arrested after stealing boat in Key Largo

    Two Stock Island residents were arrested on Monday for stealing a boat in Key Largo. Rigoberto Morales, 54, and Arlem Cristina Silva Cruz, 35, were both charged with grand theft. The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office was notified Monday that a 2015, 19-foot NauticStar boat worth an estimated...
  12. WPLG

    Results of 2nd autopsy to be given in Patrick Lyoya's death

    Lawyers for the family of Patrick Lyoya, a Black man killed by police in western Michigan, said they will release results from an independent autopsy Tuesday. Video from a bystander shows Lyoya, who was not armed, was on the ground when he was shot in the head during a struggle with a white...
  13. WPLG

    Guatemala's much-criticized top prosecutor seeks 2nd term

    Once the envy of Central America for anticorruption efforts that took down a sitting president, Guatemala’s attorney general’s office in recent years has been accused of blocking corruption investigations, protecting powerful interests and even persecuting those who pursue the corrupt. Consuelo...
  14. WPLG

    Strong influences help mold 2022 US Teacher of the Year

    It hardly seems a stretch to say Kurt Russell was born to be a history teacher. Raised on his mother's stories about segregation and the civil rights movement in Alabama and influenced by teachers from his childhood, the 50-year-old Russell has spent the last 25 years teaching history and...
  15. WPLG

    Moderna announces step toward updating COVID shots for fall

    Moderna hopes to offer updated COVID-19 boosters in the fall that combine its original vaccine with protection against the omicron variant. On Tuesday, it reported a preliminary hint that such an approach might work. Today's COVID-19 vaccines all are based on the original version of the...
  16. WPLG

    Palestinians protest closures as settlers march in West Bank

    Palestinian protesters and Israeli troops clashed in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday as thousands of Israelis marched to the site of a demolished settlement and called on the government to rebuild it. Palestinian paramedics said they treated at least eight people who were struck by rubber...
  17. WPLG

    New York Times promotes Joseph Kahn to executive editor

    The New York Times has named Joseph Kahn as its new executive editor, replacing Dean Baquet as leader of the storied paper's newsroom. The Times said Kahn, who has been managing editor at the the paper since 2016, will assume his new role effective June 14. Baquet will remain at The Times but...
  18. WPLG

    3 Black churches rebuilding in Louisiana after 2019 arson

    Three years after an arsonist torched three small Black Baptist churches in rural Louisiana, rebuilding is well under way. Mount Pleasant Baptist Church in Opelousas is months from reopening, with visible progress at St. Mary Baptist Church in Port Barre and Greater Union Baptist Church in...
  19. WPLG

    For Russian diplomats, disinformation is part of the job

    As governments and social media companies have moved to suppress Russia's state media and the disinformation it spreads about the war in Ukraine, the Kremlin's diplomats are stepping up to do the dirty work. Russian embassies and consulates around the world are prolifically using Facebook...
  20. WPLG

    Citing Russia's war, IMF cuts global growth forecast to 3.6%

    The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday downgraded the outlook for the world economy this year and next, blaming Russia's war in Ukraine for disrupting global commerce, pushing up oil prices, threatening food supplies and increasing uncertainty already heightened by the coronavirus and its...
Top