ORLANDO, Fla. — The Orlando Sentinel sued the Florida Department of Transportation on Tuesday, seeking to compel the release of public records related to the state’s decision to remove a rainbow crosswalk outside the Pulse nightclub where 49 people were gunned down almost a decade ago.

The Sentinel requested a variety of documents in late ...Read more

DETROIT — Charlotte McDonnell Ford, the daughter of Henry Ford II who made her own mark as a socialite and philanthropist and known for her refined taste, has died.

According to her obituary, Ford, the great-granddaughter of Ford Motor Co. founder Henry Ford, passed away peacefully Sunday at her home in New York. She was 84. A cause of death ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — The city of Clearwater said it will abide with a Georgia appeals court, which struck down an ordinance that created distance between protesters and patients at a reproductive health care clinic.

In a Dec. 4 opinion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit said a vehicle buffer zone that the City Council unanimously ...Read more

A Delaware State Police trooper was shot and killed while responding to a report of an active shooter on Tuesday in Wilmington.

“One Delaware State Trooper has been confirmed killed during this incident,” Delaware State Police said on X, formerly known as Twitter. “We are continuing to assess additional injuries.”

The suspected shooter...Read more

DENVER — Twenty-four hours after she was released from immigration detention, Jeanette Vizguerra stood on the steps of a federal courthouse in downtown Denver on Tuesday and pledged to keep fighting the crackdown that still threatens to remove her from the country.

Her attempts to regain her freedom, even temporarily, had galvanized ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Jeffrey Epstein’s August 2019 death in federal custody put an end to a criminal investigation into his sex crimes that had been brought a month earlier by federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York.

It might have also put an end to a nascent financial investigation into the deceased financier by the U.S. ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Tuesday imposed visa sanctions on former European Union Commissioner Thierry Breton and four other people for trying to make American tech companies police political speech on their platforms.

“For far too long, ideologues in Europe have led organized efforts to coerce American platforms to punish ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The families of seven people killed in the July 1 fireworks explosion in Esparto have filed a $35 million claim against Yolo County, state fireworks regulators and several public officials, alleging widespread negligence that allowed an illegal and unsafe fireworks operation to continue.

The claim is a precursor to any ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Missing California girl Melodee Buzzard, 9, was found dead in a rural part of Utah's Wayne County from multiple gunshot wounds to the head, authorities said. Her mother, Ashlee Buzzard, was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of murder.

Cartridge cases found at the Utah crime scene in December were linked to a cartridge case that was ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled against President Donald Trump on Tuesday and said he did not have legal authority to deploy the National Guard in Chicago to protect federal immigration agents.

Acting on a 6-3 vote, the justices denied Trump's appeal and upheld orders from a federal district judge and the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of ...Read more

DETROIT — Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard's recent comments about Dearborn and Muslims stirred concerns among some residents and activists with ties to the city who say the community and the beliefs of those living there have not been depicted accurately.

Gabbard said at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest conference Sunday in ...Read more

The FBI was looking into at least 10 of Jeffrey Epstein’s “co-conspirators” in 2019, new documents released Tuesday revealed for the first time, but the Department of Justice blacked out many of their names without explanation or justification.

The continued withholding of information — particularly about those who witnessed, ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — Nansi Armstrong is living in America's painful health insurance purgatory: earning too much to qualify for Medicaid but not enough to cover premiums set to double next year.

The 48-year-old mother works multiple jobs, including a full-time gig as an office manager for a Harrisburg law firm that comes without benefits.

At $650 ...Read more

A letter released this week that appeared to be penned by Jeffrey Epstein to disgraced USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar has since been confirmed as “fake” by the FBI.

The short, handwritten note was among the latest batch of files, made up of nearly 30,000 documents related to the Epstein investigation, released by the Justice Department ...Read more

A letter that appears to have been written by Jeffrey Epstein to serial sex abuser Larry Nassar, a former Michigan State University doctor, is among a batch of documents released this week by the U.S. Department of Justice.

The short message references President Donald Trump and, according to another released file, was submitted by the FBI for ...Read more

Betty Reid Soskin, who rose to national prominence as the National Park Service’s oldest ranger and shared her experiences of racial segregation working on the World War II home front, has died. She was 104.

Soskin passed away Sunday morning at her home in Richmond, Calif. surrounded by family.

“She led a fully packed life and was ready to...Read more

At the Target store on Riverside Boulevard on Friday, stacks of plastic bags sat prominently at checkout counters — the only visible option available for shoppers at both self-checkout kiosks and traditional lanes.

Under Senate Bill 1053 that passed in 2024, those plastic bags are set to disappear from checkout counters by the end of 2025.

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