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(TALLAHASSEE, Fla. ) -- Florida's agricultural fields -- including the state's iconic orange groves and berry farms -- are routinely damaged by strong storms that roll through the state.Some of the Sunshine State's most important farms are now recovering from two of the 2024 season's most powerful hurricanes, which struck one after the other.On Sept. 27, Hurricane Helene became the strongest hurricane to strike Florida's Big Bend. Less than two […]

(PHOENIX) -- All charges were dropped Thursday against Tyron McAlpin, a disabled Black man in Arizona who had been facing charges of felony assault and resisting arrest after a pair of Phoenix police officers punched him and shocked him with a stun gun. McAlpin is deaf and has cerebral palsy.The incident, which took place on Aug. 19, was captured on both surveillance video and police body-worn camera. The officers said […]

(NEW YORK) -- The second suspect who was arrested earlier this week in connection to the deadly Michigan home invasion on Oct. 11 that left 72-year-old Rochester Hills businessman Hussein Murray dead has been formally charged with multiple counts, including felony murder, police said.“Joshua Zuazo, 39, of Dearborn, is charged in a three-count warrant issued today by prosecutors with felony murder – a life offense if convicted – and two […]

(AUSTIN, Texas) -- In an 11th-hour turn of events, Robert Roberson, the first person set to be executed in the U.S. based on the largely discredited "shaken baby syndrome" hypothesis, was granted a temporary hold on his death sentence.Late Thursday evening, the Texas Supreme Court issued a temporary stay in the case, delaying the looming execution and capping, for now, a back-and-forth series of legal maneuvers, including an earlier decision […]