By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Devices powered by lithium-ion batteries are overheating more often during airline flights and passengers often put them in checked bags that go into the cargo hold, where a fire might not be detected as quickly. Overheating incidents rose 28% from 2019 to ...
PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) — A Florida Panhandle high school football player has died after collapsing during a game, officials said. Port St. Joe High School wide receiver and defensive back Chance Gainer collapsed during Friday night's game at Liberty County High School. The 18-year-old senior ...
By JOHN RABY Associated Press CLARKSBURG, W.Va. (AP) — A former Mafia hitman already serving life in prison was sentenced to 25 years Friday in the 2018 fatal prison bludgeoning of notorious Boston gangster James "Whitey" Bulger. Prosecutors said Fotios "Freddy" Geas used a lock attached ...
By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A nasty rift between the most seriously wounded survivor of the 2018 Parkland school massacre and some families of the 17 murdered erupted in court on Thursday in a fight over dueling lawsuit settlements each side recently ...
By KATE PAYNE Associated Press/Report for America TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida county is in talks to acquire a storied but aging ocean liner in a proposed deal that could create the largest artificial reef in the world. But the plan hit a snag Tuesday, after local officials in ...
NORTH MIAMI, Fla. (AP) — A family believes a body found in a Florida nursing home's closet is a 71-year-old man who went missing from the facility nearly two weeks earlier. The family of Elin Etienne believes it was his decomposing body that was found Monday in a closet at the North Dade ...
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after earlier pleading no contest to attacking four Jewish teenagers who were walking along a road while dressed for a religious holiday in 2022. Noah Amato, 19, of Ponte Vedra, was sentenced Friday for ...
By MARK LONG AP Sports Writer GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Florida coach Billy Napier insists he still has confidence in his team. The bigger question: How much conviction do the Gators' decision-makers have about Napier? Cam Ward threw for 385 yards and three touchdowns, leading No. 19 ...
By KATE PAYNE Associated Press/Report for America TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A Republican state representative in central Florida has been indicted on felony forgery charges related to her administration of a private Christian school that she helped run with her family. Carolina Amesty, ...
By JILL COLVIN, JOEY CAPPELLETTI and THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press POTTERVILLE, Mich. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump says that, if he wins a second term, he wants to make IVF treatment free for women, but did not detail how he would fund his plan or precisely how it would ...
