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Investigators say two people came forward after death of man who killed Hiram ‘Ross’ Grayam in 1968More than five decades after a second world war veteran was killed while working as a milkman in Florida, investigators say they have solved the case thanks to two people who came forward after the killer died.Hiram “Ross” Grayam was delivering milk in April 1968 and failed to...

Manuel Rocha, 73, will also pay a $500,000 fine after pleading guilty to conspiring to act as an agent of a foreign governmentA former career US diplomat was sentenced Friday to 15 years in federal prison after admitting he worked for decades as a secret agent for Cuba, in a plea agreement that leaves many unanswered questions about a betrayal that stunned the US...

Judge reverses earlier decision and rules that ex-president must swap in pseudonyms for people to prevent threats of harassmentThe federal judge overseeing Donald Trump’s criminal case on charges of retaining classified documents ordered the former president’s lawyers to redact information about roughly two dozen witnesses from a public version of one of their court filings, reversing an earlier decision that had allowed no redactions.The...

Measures target people convicted of driving without a license – which undocumented people can’t obtain – or committing feloniesFlorida’s governor signed bills Friday that increase the prison and jail sentences for immigrants who are living in the United States illegally if they are convicted of driving without a license or committing felonies.Ron DeSantis is a frequent critic of the Biden administration over its handling...

Aileen Cannon indicates that argument from ex-president’s attorneys that law is too vague is question for jury at trialThe federal judge overseeing Donald Trump’s prosecution on charges of retaining classified documents has rejected an effort by his lawyers to throw out the case, indicating that their argument that the law is too vague is a question for a jury at trial.The two-page ruling from...

US district judge Aileen Cannon rejects Trump’s motion to review special counsel filing on redacting classified informationA federal judge on Tuesday rejected an attempt by Donald Trump to review a sensitive court filing submitted by special counsel prosecutors that detailed their reasons for wanting to redact some of the classified documents that would be turned over to the former president in discovery.The attempt by...

Prosecutors allegedly turn over exhibit on threats made against potential witness to Trump’s lawyers after judge ordered them toSpecial counsel prosecutors have produced to Donald Trump a sealed exhibit about threats to a potential trial witness after the federal judge overseeing his prosecution for retaining classified documents ordered the exhibit turned over despite the prosecutors’ objections, people familiar with the matter said.The exhibit was...

Bombardier Challenger 600, carrying five people, pulverized a car and slammed into a wall, pieces of it scattered across the interstateTwo people have died after a small private jet plane attempted to make an emergency landing on Interstate 75 in south-west Florida on Friday afternoon, colliding with two vehicles and bringing traffic to a halt as a plume of black smoke rose into the...

Haitian American Joseph Vincent, who admitted to helping plot assassination of Jovenel Moïse, is among 11 people accusedJoseph Vincent, a former informant for the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), was handed a life sentence by a US court on Friday for his role in the 2021 assassination of Haiti’s president.A Haitian American national, Vincent admitted to helping plot to kill the Haitian president Jovenel...

Gloria Serge, 85, died in February 2023 after the animal sprang from a retention pond and dragged her back into the waterThe family of an elderly woman killed by an alligator as she walked her dog near her Florida home is suing the retirement community where she lived for wrongful death.Gloria Serge, 85, died in February 2023 after the 11ft alligator, known to residents...

Hard-right Florida governor at one point thought to be future of party ends campaign to be GOP nominee Ron DeSantis, the hard-right governor of Florida, has ended his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination and endorsed Donald Trump.“It’s clear to me that a majority of Republican primary voters want to give Donald Trump another chance,” he said in a statement posted on X. “He...

Officials say search will continue after as many as 121 unmarked graves were located at MacDill air force base in TampaAs many as 121 unmarked graves in a former Black cemetery have been discovered at a US air force base in Florida, military officials confirmed.A nonintrusive archaeological survey performed over the past two years at the MacDill air force base in Tampa identified 58...

Prank call to police claimed a shooting occurred at Scott’s Naples home, prompting a Swat team to deploy before standing downThe Republican Florida senator Rick Scott has said that his home was “swatted” on Wednesday night.While he was dining with his wife, Ann, local Naples authorities responded to what was revealed to be a prank call intentionally made to lure resources like a Swat...

Police say the victim was likely ‘targeted’ in the attack at the Paddock mall in Ocala, about 80 miles north-west of OrlandoA man has died in a shooting at a shopping mall in central Florida two days before Christmas in which the victim was apparently “targeted” for the attack, police said.Ocala police chief Mike Balken told reporters Saturday evening that the man was killed...

Up to 127mm of rain falls on Florida and gusty winds and flash flooding hit parts of Georgia and South CarolinaLast weekend, a low-pressure system that had developed over the Gulf of Mexico tracked north-east across the Florida peninsula. Lashings of heavy rain and strong winds were brought to Florida during the early hours of Sunday morning, dumping up to 127mm (5in) of rain...