KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Rescuers pulled out survivors caked in dark brown mud and helicopters lifted stranded people to safety, as Nepal and China raced to respond to catastrophic flash floods that killed nearly 600 people and left almost 2,500 missing.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The bond market swung Friday as investors built bets that the Federal Reserve may hike interest rates soon to get the nation’s high inflation under control. U.S. stocks, meanwhile, dipped but not by much after economists said a speech by Chairman Kevin Warsh helped strengthen faith that the Fed will do what’s needed to bring inflation down, even if it causes pain for the economy in the short term.
A man listed in an arrest report as a teacher is facing a dozen felony charges after sheriff’s deputies said he was distributing child sexual abuse videos on the messaging platform Kik.
This November, Broward County voters will decide whether to pay a higher sales tax — a quarter-percent increase — to continue free health screenings that supporters argue have saved lives by detecting problems early.
Miami is looking to turn its long-running relationship with Rockstar Games “Grand Theft Auto” into a business opportunity.
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Ratko Mladic, the bullish Bosnian Serb general whose forces besieged the Bosnian capital for several years in the 1990s and carried out the worst massacre in Europe since World War II, died Thursday while serving a life sentence for his crimes, U.N. officials said. He was 84.
The search continued Friday for an American crocodile believed to have attacked and killed a 9-year-old Dutch Shepherd in South Miami, as wildlife officials urged residents to take precautions around nearby waterways.
A judge granted Michael Caruso — the suspended Palm Beach County Clerk of the Circuit Court and Comptroller accused of intra-familial child sex abuse — a $160,000 bond on Friday in Orange County.
A Miami man was arrested Thursday, months after an investigation began into him being in possession of child sexual abuse material, authorities said in an arrest report.
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