The Associated Press
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The 60-year-old white woman who fatally shot her Black neighbor amid a long-running dispute has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for her manslaughter conviction.
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Former President Donald Trump, who is leading in the latest polls of likely Florida voters, delivered an array of remarks touching on a wide range of topics.
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The problem didn’t affect how counties reported the primary vote to the state, but people checking local election websites Tuesday night couldn’t access results as they came in.
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Clerks are reassuring voters that a warning circulating on social media and via text is inaccurate. It claims that election workers will invalidate ballots by writing on them.
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Rebuilding after extreme weather disasters can be a long and expensive process, as the impacts of climate change increasingly threaten coastal communities.
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Donald Trump has selected Sen. JD Vance of Ohio as his Republican running mate. Vance was a vocal opponent of Trump during the 2016 presidential election but changed his position, arguing he was proved wrong by Trump’s performance in office. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio had been informed earlier Monday afternoon that he wasn't chosen, according to an AP source.
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Demolition of the building where 17 people died in the 2018 Parkland school shooting is set to begin. The three-story building at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School had been kept as evidence in the 2022 trial of the killer and last year's trial of a sheriff's deputy who didn't enter it and confront him.
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Firefighters aided by aircraft battled a wind-driven wildfire burning in an area straddling the San Francisco Bay Area and central California, authorities said.
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As climate change makes storms more frequent and intense, Florida community foundations are looking for new ways to make sure they have resources on hand to support the public before, during and after a disaster. Some are establishing permanent disaster relief funds, the earnings of which can be used to quickly deploy money to frontline nonprofits as soon as a storm is forecasted.
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Boeing is now aiming for its first astronaut launch at the beginning of June. Officials for the company and NASA said Friday that weeks of review show that the capsule can safely fly with two test pilots, despite a small propulsion system leak.