FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — Colorado Democrats voted overwhelmingly to censure one of their own, Gov. Jared Polis, for commuting the prison sentence of Tina Peters, the election conspiracy theorist who amplified President Donald Trump’s baseless claims that mass fraud caused his 2020 election loss.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee officials on Thursday called off the lethal injection of Tony Carruthers, who was convicted of kidnapping and murdering three people in 1994, after his executioners tried and failed for over an hour to establish an intravenous line. Gov. Bill Lee announced soon afterward that the state would not try again for at least a year.
NEW YORK (AP) — It’s never a good sign when a report comes with a big red disclaimer at the top of each page, but that’s what happened on Thursday when the Democratic National Committee belatedly released its controversial autopsy report on the 2024 election.
At the end of the Florida Keys island chain, Key West is closer to Havana than Miami. Tourists line up for a picture with the “90 miles to Cuba” concrete buoy on a seawall to prove it.
Deliberations are underway in the case of two men facing life in prison for the murder of a Coral Springs firefighter.
A rescue in Fort Lauderdale turned into a story of being in the right place at the right time after a man’s quick thinking helped save a struggling dog from the water.
A suspect in thefts of high-value FedEx packages in South Florida told investigators it was all part of a “delivery job” he found on a group chat for “Russians in America,” according to police.
A 29-year-old Miami-Dade County man was arrested for allegedly sending disturbing, sexually explicit messages to multiple underage girls.
Police have arrested a suspect accused of damaging the same North Miami hair salon multiple times.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A judge on Thursday handed down an extraordinary prison sentence — nearly 42 years — to the former leader of a Minnesota nonprofit who was convicted in a staggering $250 million fraud case that helped ignite an immigration crackdown by the Trump administration.