FORT LAUDERDALE (AP) — Three people filed a lawsuit Monday against New York Giants cornerback DeAndre Baker, claiming that he robbed them at gunpoint during a May cookout in Florida, court records show. The civil lawsuit filed in Broward County court seeks $100,000 in damages. Baker was ...
Eds: UPDATES: With AP Photos. By DON BABWIN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — A familiar narrative emerged in the days that followed Jacob Blakeís shooting by a police officer in Kenosha, Wisconsin, one seen many times after a Black man or woman is killed or grievously wounded by police: That ...
TALLAHASSEE (AP) — Scores of Floridians struggling with rents and mortgages were given another reprieve when Gov. Ron DeSantis again extended a moratorium against residential evictions and foreclosures. The governor did so Monday night, just hours before a previous extension was to expire ...
By KELLI KENNEDY and BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press TALLAHASSEE (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Tuesday that he will lift the state's ban on visiting nursing homes that has cut off vulnerable seniors from family since mid-March over fears of spreading the new ...
By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY (AP) — Trude Lamb is a standout cross country runner at Robert E. Lee High School in Tyler, Texas, but the name on her jersey is a sharp reminder of a man "who didn't believe people like me were 100% human." The sophomore, originally from Ghana, ...
MIAMI (AP) — Some coronavirus restrictions started easing up Monday in parts of South Florida. In Miami-Dade County, restaurants were allowed to welcome back diners to indoor seating for the first time in almost two months, provided masks were worn and the establishments operated at 50% ...
By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A May 2021 trial date was set Monday for Steve Bannon, President Donald Trump's former chief strategist, on charges that he cheated donors to a group seeking to fund a southern border wall. Bannon, 66, of Washington, D.C., was audible ...
By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, (AP) — Florida's director of economic opportunity resigned Monday, months after being stripped of his oversight of the state's glitch-ridden unemployment system, which left hundreds of thousands of people waiting weeks — and sometimes ...
By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press A Florida man who called himself "the Antifa hunter" as he waged an online campaign to terrorize and harass those who opposed his white supremacist ideology was sentenced on Monday to more than three years in prison. Daniel McMahon, 32, of Brandon, ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Mark Esper has endorsed awarding the Medal of Honor, the military's highest award for valor in combat, to a soldier who sustained fatal burns while acting to save fellow soldiers in Iraq in 2005. Esper expressed his support in a letter to members of ...