DETROIT — Prosecutors Thursday unsealed a criminal complaint accusing an Upper Peninsula man of breaking into the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack while wearing a distinctive hat linked with the rap duo Insane Clown Posse that helped FBI agents track his movements.

Laurium resident Adam Mancuso, 45, broke into the Capitol, vaped, ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Freddie Owens, who next month will likely be the first person executed in South Carolina since 2011, has cited his Muslim faith in asking the state Supreme Court to allow his attorney to sign a document selecting Owens’ method of execution.

Signing the document himself, his attorney said, would be the equivalent of suicide ...Read more

DETROIT — State regulators will consider environmental justice concerns when deciding whether to approve future licensing requests from hazardous waste facilities after the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy settled a civil rights complaint about a controversial Detroit facility, the department announced Thursday.

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California lawmakers are divided over whether to call yet another special legislative session on gasoline prices at the behest of Gov. Gavin Newsom, who wants to pass a regulation on oil refineries in an effort to avoid gasoline price spikes.

It would be the second time Newsom convened lawmakers to deal with the issue — the last being in the ...Read more

Reggae artist Sean Kingston and his mother are scheduled to stand trial next year on federal charges of defrauding multiple businesses of more than $1 million.

Kingston, whose real name is Kisean Anderson, and Janice Turner appeared in federal court Thursday morning in Fort Lauderdale, where a judge set the trial date for March 24, 2025, ...Read more

BOSTON — A second person has tested positive for the potentially fatal EEE disease in the Bay State, as health officials urge residents to use bug spray and take other steps to prevent mosquito bites.

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health on Thursday announced a second confirmed case of Eastern Equine Encephalitis in a human and a ...Read more

ATLANTA — Macomb County Prosecutor Pete Lucido will not press charges after an investigation into allegations that four individuals attempted to cast two ballots during the Aug. 6 primary.

In a brief statement Thursday, the Republican prosecutor said there was no probable cause to indicate a crime had occurred and said the "appropriate ...Read more

As young men and women get ready to start their freshman year at colleges all over the country, one famous teen’s current situation remains a mystery.

That would be former first son Barron Trump, who graduated from Oxbridge Academy in West Palm Beach back in May.

There have been no formal announcements as to where Barron will be spending the...Read more

MOSCOW, Idaho — The judge overseeing the Bryan Kohberger case abruptly paused a hearing on the capital murder trial’s potential change of venue Thursday after an expert witness for the defense in a presentation showed content from social media in court.

Kohberger, a former Washington State University graduate student accused of killing four...Read more

MIAMI — Miami-Dade County’s unsheltered homeless population has held relatively steady since last summer, hovering around 1,000 people.

But a breakdown of the numbers recently released by the county’s Homeless Trust shows a decrease in Miami Beach — from 152 people last August to 132 now — and an increase in Miami — from 534 people ...Read more

The Biden administration is restarting a humanitarian parole program that allows Cubans, Nicaraguans, Haitians and Venezuelans to come to the United States after it temporarily paused it because of fraud concerns.

The Department of Homeland Security announced Thursday that it would start approving travel documents again so people from the four ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A retail burglary ring that targeted cannabis dispensaries across the state stole about 1,000 pounds of cannabis products before the ring was busted and nearly two dozen suspects were arrested, California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta announced Thursday.

Bonta alleged that suspects broke into more than a dozen cannabis stores overnight, ...Read more

One of four men initially suspected in the shooting death of an Oakland, California, police officer late last year had all charges against him dismissed this week, the Alameda County district attorney's office confirmed Thursday.

Prosecutors had charged Marquise Cooper, 34, with murder in January in the slaying of Officer Tuan Le, 36. Alameda ...Read more

An internal review board at the National Institutes of Health has decided to shut down a long-term study of Havana Syndrome patients that found no signs of brain injuries, after several participants complained of mishandled medical data, bias and pressures to join the research.

A spokeswoman for NIH said the internal review found that “...Read more

A coalition of the nation’s largest book publishers filed a lawsuit Thursday against Florida education officials alleging that a 2023 Florida law that increased scrutiny of school library books unconstitutionally limits free speech.

The lawsuit, which was filed by Penguin Random House, Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins and three other ...Read more

After catching its breath, the Atlantic hurricane season appears ready to roar again, just in time for the peak of what is still expected to be one of the busiest hurricane seasons on record.

An unusually quiet August raised hopes that perhaps all the dire predictions — for 17 to 24 named storms — were a bust. But experts say that likely ...Read more

With the new COVID-19 vaccinations for the 2024–25 season arriving across the nation, an important question arises: When is the best time to get the shot?

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says September and October are generally the best times for most people to get the COVID immunization.

But which month is better for ...Read more

MIAMI — The six bullets that killed a carjacked UPS truck driver and a bystander stuck in traffic in a busy Broward intersection came from guns fired by four Miami-Dade police officers, according to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement’s investigative summary report.

The document, obtained by the Miami Herald Thursday, outlines the ...Read more

As part of his work to champion Latino inclusion in Hollywood, U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-Texas, has recommended that the crime dramas “Blood In Blood Out” and “American Me” be entered into the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry for 2024.

“Both movies were able to show the humanity in the Latino community, even within very...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — University of Florida horticulture science professor Rob Ferl is going where some men have gone before including William Shatner and Jeff Bezos, but he’s bringing along some experimental plant life for NASA.

Ferl, a researcher within UF’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, is also the director of UF’s new ...Read more