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David Crosby, the brash rock musician who evolved from a baby-faced harmony singer with the Byrds to a mustachioed hippie superstar and an ongoing troubadour in Crosby, Stills, Nash & (sometimes) Young, has died at 81, several media outlets reported Thursday. The New York Times reported, based on a text message from Crosby’s sister-in-law, that […]

Actor Alec Baldwin and a weapons specialist will be charged with involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer on a New Mexico movie set, prosecutors announced Thursday, citing a “criminal disregard for safety.” Santa Fe District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies issued a statement announcing the charges against Baldwin and Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, who supervised weapons […]

A new web-tracking service to help victims of sexual assault has been launched in Florida. It comes two years after the passage of Gail’s Law, which requires sexual assault kits to be recorded and tracked. The law is named for Gail Gardner, it took 30 years for her sexual assault kit to be tested. She […]

Continuing to target treatment for transgender people, Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration is requiring state universities to provide information from the past five years about services they have provided to people with gender dysphoria, according to documents released Wednesday. Chris Spencer, director of the governor’s Office of Planning and Budget, sent a memo last week requiring […]

A federal judge has rejected a request by Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration to conduct “mental examinations” on a pair of 12-year-olds who are plaintiffs in a challenge to a state rule prohibiting Medicaid coverage for gender-affirming care for transgender people. U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle’s two-page decision, released Wednesday, came after lawyers for the Florida […]

A Senate committee Tuesday backed a proposal that would earmark up to $20 million a year for environmental projects in the Florida Keys, a week after Gov. Ron DeSantis included protection of Florida’s coral reefs as part of his second-term environmental plan. The Senate Environment and Natural Resources Committee unanimously approved a bill (SB 54) […]

A South Florida Fair auction is spurring up some controversy after one family says they won a bid for a pig but then walked away empty-handed, and the pig’s life is on the line. Meg Weinberger, who owns an animal sanctuary, said she went to the fair with her family in hopes of bringing back […]

South Florida doctors say heart transplants are hitting a record high in the United States. “I wouldn’t be as strong as I am if he isn’t as strong as he is,” says mother Morgan Crowley. Crowley’s son, Steve, 2, has been in the hospital ever since he was born. Steve was born with hypoplastic left […]

Talk about a catch!  A 12-year-old boy visiting Fort Lauderdale from New England was out fishing Tuesday morning and hoping to catch something, but he likely didn’t expect to pull in a great white shark. The boy and his mother, visiting from Massachusetts, were in a small charter fishing boat about one mile off the […]

A man has been arrested in Florida for the 2007 death of a Boston mother whose body was never found, authorities announced. CBS Boston reports Felicia McGuyer was 32 years old when she disappeared 16 years ago. According to the Suffolk County District Attorney, 33-year-old David Pena will be arraigned on a murder charge in […]