FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A South Florida judge on Thursday cleared a police officer of wrongdoing in the shooting death of a UPS driver who had been taken hostage during a 2019 robbery. Broward Circuit Judge Ernest Kollra ruled that Jose Mateo, who had been charged with manslaughter ...
By JEFF MARTIN and MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A man who was unresponsive after riding a roller coaster at Universal Orlando Resort's newest park died from blunt impact injuries, a medical examiner said Thursday. Joshua Stephany, the medical examiner for the ...
By KATE PAYNE Associated Press/Report for America TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Conservationists have filed a lawsuit to halt Florida's first black bear hunt in a decade, arguing that the hunt scheduled for December is unconstitutional and contradicts the state's own policy protecting native ...
Hurricane Helene hit North Carolina a year ago. Some students never returned to school By MAKIYA SEMINERA of The Associated Press and LAURA HACKETT and JOSE SANDOVAL of Blue Ridge Public Radio undefined SWANNANOA, N.C. (AP) — Thousands of students across western North Carolina lost their ...
By DAVID FISCHER Associated Press FORT PIERCE, Fla. (AP) — A pair of North Carolina brothers testified Wednesday about a box left with them by a man accused of trying to assassinate President Donald Trump at his Florida golf course last year. Samuel and Lazaro Plata described in Spanish ...
By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press STARKE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man convicted of killing his estranged wife's sister and parents and setting their house on fire was put to death Wednesday evening in what was a record 12th execution in the state this year. David Pittman, 63, was ...
