MIAMI (AP) — Miami police fatally shot a man during a confrontation Tuesday night at a mobile home park, officials said. The man, whose name has not been released, was a suspect in at least five robberies committed between Feb. 8 and Tuesday, Deputy police Chief Ron Papier told news ...
DEERFIELD BEACH (AP) — Two men are accused of pretending to be federal marshals and flashing phoney credentials to get out of wearing facial coverings at a South Florida resort hotel. When the staff at the Wyndham Deerfield Beach Resort asked Walter Wayne Brown Jr., 53, and Gary Brummett, ...
ST. ALBANS, Vt. (AP) — A four-page joint advisory from the FBI, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the EPA and Multi-State Center for Internet Security has been circulated among Vermont officials outlining how to avoid cyberattacks. The document comes two weeks after a ...
By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden's effort to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour could provide a welcome opportunity for someone like Cristian Cardona, a 21-year-old fast food worker. Cardona would love to earn enough to afford to move out ...
By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A former FBI agent convicted of second-degree murder for leaking information to Boston gangster James "Whitey" Bulger that led to the shooting death of a gambling executive will be released from prison on medical grounds, officials ...
ST. PETERSBURG (AP) — A 31-year-old man is accused of killing his grandmother, great-grandmother and an uncle in their home in St. Petersburg, police said. The shooting led to a SWAT team response that ended with Cornelius "Cornbread" Whitfield, 31, being taken into custody by St. ...
By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida's program for vaccinating residents and staff at long-term care facilities against the coronavirus is complete, the state's director of emergency management told lawmakers Thursday, saying that would free up resources ...
By JILL COLVIN Associated Press Just two weeks ago, House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy declared Donald Trump culpable in the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol. By Thursday, he was seeking his political support. A private meeting between the two men at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort signaled a ...
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A man has been sentenced in Florida to six years and six months in federal prison for a $400,000 nationwide postal stamp scam, officials said. Edward Morgan, 49, was sentenced Wednesday in Tampa federal court, according to court records. He pleaded guilty in September ...
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A mentally ill South Florida man has died a week after an altercation with jail officers as he awaited trail on criminal mischief and marijuana possession charges, officials said. The family of Kevin Lavira Desir, 43, removed him from life-support and he died ...