The Jewish High Holidays are fast approaching: Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur. While the first really commemorates the creation of the world, Jews view both holidays as a chance to reflect on our shortcomings, make amends and seek forgiveness, both from other people and from the Almighty.

Jews pray and fast on Yom Kippur to demonstrate ...Read more

MIAMI — Florida Power & Light reported more than 1.2 million of its customers have no electricity because of Hurricane Ian. Some users are regaining power, but many others will be left without electricity for days.

Florida’s largest power company faced many outages across the state as of Thursday afternoon due to flooding and wind damage, ...Read more

ATLANTA — The tech company that copied election data in Coffee County was also considered for similar work in Spalding County, prompting a new investigation in Georgia, State Elections Board Chairman William Duffey said.

The company, Atlanta-based SullivanStrickler, communicated with the Spalding County elections board in August 2021 about an...Read more

MIAMI — Tropical Storm Ian on Thursday moved off Florida’s east coast and into the Atlantic, where it’s expected to strengthen into a hurricane again as it approaches South Carolina.

And just because Ian is no longer on land doesn’t mean it won’t continue to affect the Sunshine State.

The National Hurricane Center said in a 2 p.m. ...Read more

The husband of outspoken Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., filed for divorce Wednesday after 27 years of marriage, according to the pair’s hometown paper, the Rome News-Tribune.

Perry Greene reportedly said that their union is “irretrievably broken” and filed a motion to seal his filing, which he said contains sensitive ...Read more

Former executives with utility giant Pacific Gas & Electric have reached a $117 million settlement agreement in connection to the 2017 North Bay fires and the 2018 Camp fire, officials said.

The former officers and directors were sued by a victim trust that claimed the deadly fires were the direct result of the former executives’ actions and ...Read more

FORT MYERS BEACH, Fla. — They thought second floors would be safe.

But Hurricane Ian was more brutal than some residents of Fort Myers Beach ever imagined.

Kevin Behen left his studio apartment and hunkered down in a corner room in a stout building by the foot of the bridge into town. The surge licked the second-floor deck. He sprinted ...Read more

A cause of death has been released for Queen Elizabeth II.

The British monarch died of “old age” at 3:10 p.m. on Sept. 8, according to a death certificate released Thursday by the National Records of Scotland.

Her death at Balmoral Castle in Scotland at age 96 ended a record-setting 70-year reign as monarch of the United Kingdom.

A ...Read more

WASHINGTON — As momentum shifted toward impeaching then-President Donald Trump for withholding aid to Ukraine in 2019, U.S. Rep. Adam B. Schiff counseled Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the seven moderate freshman Democrats whose Washington Post op-ed supporting impeachment in essence forced the hand of House leaders, according to a new book.

“...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Anerae Brown was on the rise as an up-and-coming rap artist when he joined a crime that turned deadly: the 1992 slaying of Meadowview community activist Patricia Harris.

His own art became part of the case against him as he stood trial with three other gang members accused of killing Harris in a break-in that went bad.

A...Read more

Oakland, California, police continued their search Thursday for at least one gunman involved in a shooting at a high school campus in which six adults were wounded, including two with life-threatening injuries.

Though the focus is on one gunman, it’s possible “there may be other individuals involved,” Oakland Assistant Police Chief Darren...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — It was an unusual scene, sure to enrage public safety officials who had warned people of the danger. But the Instagrammers just couldn’t resist.

As Hurricane Ian neared Florida on Wednesday, Tampa Bay seemingly drained away. It was like a bathtub after somebody had pulled the plug.

Then, the water returned.

Water levels had ...Read more

MIAMI — Tropical Storm Ian moved off Florida’s east coast and into the Atlantic Thursday morning, where it’s expected to strengthen into a hurricane again as it approaches South Carolina.

Ian was about 25 miles north-northeast of Cape Canaveral, Florida, and about 285 miles south of Charleston, South Carolina, as of the National Hurricane...Read more

MIAMI — Tropical Storm Ian moved off Florida’s east coast and into the Atlantic Thursday morning, where it’s expected to strengthen into a hurricane again as it approaches South Carolina.

Ian was about 25 miles north-northeast of Cape Canaveral, Florida, and about 285 miles south of Charleston, South Carolina, as of the National Hurricane...Read more

MIAMI — Hurricane Ian left millions of Floridians without power Thursday morning, and they could be left in the dark for days.

Nearly a quarter of all Floridians sit without power Thursday morning, according to PowerOutage.us, a website that compiles outage numbers. The website recorded 2.61 million customers without electricity out of about ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Aimee Bock's organization was keeping a low profile as it handled millions in government money when the video appeared on Facebook in January.

It purportedly showed one of Bock's employees receiving an astonishing wedding present: an ornamental cart, laden with so much gold that guests gathered around to see it up close.

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MIAMI — Ian is crossing the state Thursday, making its way through Central Florida before exiting through the east coast.

Walt Disney World and other Orlando-area theme parks and attractions shut down in anticipation of the storm.

What can Central Florida expect from now Tropical Storm Ian?

Not anything like the onslaught of Southwest ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Authorities had been looking for Anthony Graziano and his teenage daughter Savannah for nearly 24 hours when his Nissan Frontier pickup was spotted Tuesday morning near Barstow.

Graziano was a suspect in the killing of his estranged wife, and authorities had issued an Amber Alert for his daughter, fearing for her safety.

San ...Read more