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STARKE, Fla. (AP) — A 77-year-old Florida man was put to death Tuesday for a deadly hammer attack on a woman decades ago, becoming the 16th person executed this year in the nation’s busiest death chamber.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Defense Department will no longer appoint civilians as tenured college faculty at the United States' military service academies, according to a memo signed Tuesday by Secretary Pete Hegseth.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A woman accused of spraying bullets at Rihanna and A$AP Rocky’s home, hitting a trailer the celebrity couple was inside and a nursery their kids were in, was found mentally competent by a judge on Tuesday to stand trial.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Christa Pike was 18 when she killed a classmate in a jealous rage and became one of the youngest women to be sent to death row. Now 50, she is scheduled to be put to death Wednesday in what would be Tennessee’s first execution of a woman in 200 years.

SpaceX launched its enormous Starship into orbit for the first time Monday and successfully delivered the most advanced Starlink satellites yet, but cut the flight short to ensure safety.

Three men faced charges on Monday afternoon in Miami-Dade County after a detective reported witnessing a “transaction” early Saturday morning outside of Club Pink Pony in Doral, records show.

Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office deputies asked the public for help on Monday with finding a 13-year-old girl who vanished about 35 days ago.

A wildfire burned on Monday morning in western Broward County’s Everglades and Francis S. Taylor Wildlife Management Area.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — President Donald Trump vowed to campaign in 35 of the most competitive battleground races in the final sprint to November's midterm elections.

Joe Scott, the Broward County Supervisor of Elections, said the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, or SAVE, database to track migrants who are not U.S. citizens, isn’t updated as regularly as it needs to be.

The Brightline companies that bet more than $5 billion on developing the nation's only privately held passenger railroad are reworking their debt in bankruptcy court, but the bright yellow trains will continue running between Miami and Orlando.

A 35-year-old man with a criminal record faced charges on Friday in Miami-Dade County after he was accused of escaping from a hospital, a carjacking, and a high-speed chase.

Duviel Alemán said he was supposed to be working with his father, Rolando Alemán León, on the day a Boeing 767-300 cargo plane overran a runway and struck a work van at Miami International Airport.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — N.C. State's former director of sports medicine faces felony and misdemeanor criminal charges after being accused of sexually abusing former Wolfpack male athletes under the guise of treatment, which previously led to more than 30 athletes outlining allegations in years of civil lawsuits.

A jury in Broward County found Shannon Ryan, a self-proclaimed witch, guilty in the 2020 murder of a 21-year-old mother, whose remains vanished.