Terry Spencer, The Associated Press

Benjamin Dowling died at age 35 after a life with severe disabilities caused by a brain hemorrhage he suffered when he was 5 months old and at Terry McKirchy’s home in Florida.

A Florida judge has released transcripts of 2006 grand jury testimony that accused the late millionaire and financier Jeffrey Epstein of sexually assaulting numerous underage girls at his Palm Beach mansion.

A federal judge has struck down as unconstitutional a 2023 Florida law that blocked gender-affirming care for transgender minors and severely restricted such treatment for adults.

The near-vacuum ripped open the locked cockpit door, sucked away the pilots’ one-page emergency checklist and pulled off the copilot’s headset.

Authorities have confirmed just one storm death so far, a man hit by a falling tree as he tried to clear another tree out of the road in Georgia.

As the eye moved inland, high winds shredded signs, blew off roofs, sent sheet metal flying and snapped tall trees. One person was killed in Georgia.

Fired Broward County Deputy Scot Peterson, 60, was the deputy assigned to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, when a shooter murdered 17 people there five years ago.

Police closed the case without consulting the state attorney’s office.

A bill would give fire stations and hospitals the option to install ventilated and climate-controlled boxes where parents could drop off babies without interacting with fire or hospital employees.

Nikolas Cruz will be sentenced to life without parole for the 2018 massacre at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School when he was 19 years old, after the jury said Thursday it could not unanimously agree he should be executed.

A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Justice Department to put forward proposed redactions as he committed to making public at least part of the affidavit supporting the search warrant for Donald Trump’s estate in Florida.

The prosecutor seeking the death penalty for the gunman who massacred 17 people at a Parkland, Florida, high school detailed for jurors Monday how Nikolas Cruz coldly mowed down his victims, returning to some as they lay wounded to finish them off with a second volley.

The June 24 collapse at the oceanside tower killed 97 people, with at least one more missing person yet to be identified.

Police identified the man on Sunday night as Christian Emmanuel Sanon and said President Moïse’s alleged killers were protecting him.

The painstaking search for survivors shifted to a recovery effort at midnight Wednesday after authorities said they had come to the agonizing conclusion that there was “no chance of life” in the rubble.