BALTIMORE — Police are seeking the identity of a person believed to be the suspect in a shooting that wounded a 15-year-old student Monday afternoon near two East Baltimore schools.

Police said Wednesday that they were seeking the person, whose features are muddled in blurry surveillance footage, in connection with the shooting near Paul ...Read more

BALTIMORE — President-elect Donald Trump is sending a clear message with his lightning round of political appointments: He knows who his friends are.

From his recent appointment of Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz as attorney general to Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy leading a new Department of Government Efficiency, Trump is rewarding those who...Read more

MIAMI — His wife’s corpse has still not been found in Europe.

But on Wednesday, federal prosecutors obtained a grand jury indictment accusing David Knezevich of killing Ana Knezevich Henao, in addition to a previous charge of kidnapping her in Madrid in early February.

Knezevich, 36, a Fort Lauderdale businessman from Serbia who has been ...Read more

CHICAGO — In the latest development in a monthslong battle between the Chicago Public Schools and the Chicago Teachers Union, the school board will convene for a special meeting to address the impending closures of several charter schools.

The meeting, scheduled for Thursday afternoon, will also allow audience members to closely watch another...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Forecasters expect Tropical Storm Sara to form in the western Caribbean Sea in the next 24 hours, but there is a great deal of uncertainty about what, if any, impacts it will have in Florida or other parts of the U.S. Gulf coast.

As of Thursday morning, the system was a tropical depression off the coast of Honduras and...Read more

DETROIT — A Detroit man convicted of leading a drug-trafficking operation in the Bay City and Saginaw area has been sentenced to 60 years in prison, officials said.

Ricardo Delgado II, 51, was sentenced Wednesday in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, U.S. Attorney Dawn Ison said.

"This defendant endangered...Read more

CAMARILLO, Calif. — Stanley Jensen worked with firefighters to break open a melted safe amid the rubble of his family’s home.

As Jensen used a window screen to sift the safe’s ashen contents for diamonds and stones, his wife Dawn DaMart wandered the blackened foundation searching for tokens of the couple’s life before the Mountain fire...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Tropical Depression Nineteen formed in the Caribbean early Thursday with the National Hurricane Center forecasting it to grow into Tropical Storm Sara. Long-term forecast models show it could enter the Gulf of Mexico and then turn toward Florida’s Gulf Coast.

As of the NHC’s 7 a.m. advisory, TD 19 was located about 250 ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — With a sterling record of busting down doors and arresting armed suspects over her decade in SWAT, Los Angeles police Lt. Jennifer Grasso figured she had a strong case to become the tactical unit's next leader when the position opened up this year. Grasso — the department's first woman to serve in SWAT — said she felt even ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The University of California wants to enroll nearly 3,600 more California students in the next academic year but is bracing for a looming budget crunch that could make it difficult to pay for increased enrollment.

UC officials told regents Wednesday that the 10-campus university system could face a $504.7-million financial ...Read more

Do the Ten Commandments have a valid place in U.S. classrooms? Louisiana’s Legislature and governor insist the answer is “yes.” But on Nov. 12, 2024, a federal judge said “no.”

U.S. District Judge John W. deGravelles blocked the state’s controversial House Bill 71, which Gov. Jeff Landry had signed into law on June 19, ...Read more

These days, it’s hard to escape news stories discussing how climate change is contributing to extreme weather disasters, including the recent U.S. hurricanes. Aid agencies are increasingly worried about the widespread damage.

A growing question as these disasters worsen in a warming world is how to pay for recoveries, particularly ...Read more

The gentle, slow-moving Florida manatee has no natural predators.

And yet, these charismatic mammals face numerous threats.

Manatees are struck by vessels in busy waterways across the state, and a majority bear scars from these collisions.

Harmful algal ...Read more

When Eliza arrived on her West Coast college campus in the fall of 2020, building community was difficult due to the raging COVID-19 pandemic. Yet over time she forged a network of friends, anchored by her sorority.

Three years later, those relationships were severely tested by events over 7,000 miles away: the Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist...Read more

It’s been a whirlwind week for Indonesian president Prabowo Subianto. On Nov. 9, he was breaking bread with Chinese leader Xi Jinping; three days later he was sitting down with President Joe Biden in the White House. In between, Subianto found time to reach out to Donald Trump to congratulate the incoming U.S. president on his election ...Read more