Former Republican state Sen. Debbie Lesko won the special election in Arizona's 8th District on Tuesday night, but by a relatively slim margin in a district that President Donald Trump easily carried in 2016.

With most of the votes counted, Lesko had 53 percent of the vote to 47 percent for Democrat Hiral Tipirneni, according to the Arizona ...Read more

SAN FRANCISCO -- Yet another federal court has prohibited the Trump administration from ending the Obama-era program offering protection from deportation for hundreds of thousands of children of undocumented immigrants, this time setting a road map for the government to begin accepting new applications.

U.S. District Judge John Bates in ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Boca Raton Mayor Susan Haynie was booked on felony charges of official misconduct Tuesday night and plans to withdraw her candidacy for the county commission, sources told the South Florida Sun Sentinel.

Acting on complaints, prosecutors began their investigation of Haynie, 62, the same month she was elected mayor of ...Read more

MORTON, Ill. -- Four hundred miles from Nashville, Tenn., in a small, bedroom community surrounded by Illinois farmland and divided by a winding, two-lane road, news of the fatal Waffle House shooting roared into town like an unexpected storm.

The town of 16,000, which touts itself as the Pumpkin Capital of the World, is protective of its image...Read more

PHILADELPHIA--On paper, Meredith Chapman and Jennair Gerardot had plenty in common.

Both were well-educated, accomplished women with backgrounds in marketing. Both had notable ties to Delaware: Chapman once ran for office there, and worked for much of the last eight years at the University of Delaware. Gerardot lived in Wilmington, and her ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson toured a homeless women's center on L.A.'s skid row Tuesday as part of a fact-finding trip to local public-private partnerships and faith-based programs tackling homelessness and job training.

Carson, whose agency provided a record $109 million last year to L.A.'s battle with one...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- A former Florida Atlantic University professor is not entitled to a new trial over his claim that he was fired in retaliation for calling the Sandy Hook massacre a hoax, a judge ruled Tuesday.

The decision by U.S. District Judge Robin Rosenberg comes four months after a jury rejected James Tracy's free speech lawsuit.

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Parkland school shooter can keep publicly funded defense team

MIAMI -- Faced with a massive criminal case against him and the possibility of the death penalty, mass shooter Nikolas Cruz can keep his taxpayer-funded defense team, a judge ruled this week.

That means the Broward Public Defender's Office will continue in its quest to keep the 19-...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The five defendants facing serious criminal charges for the 2016 death of a young boy on the Verruckt water slide in Kansas City, Kan., are asking for separate trials.

In a filing Tuesday in Wyandotte County District Court, Jeff Henry, John Schooley and Henry & Sons Construction, the general contractor, argue they cannot be ...Read more

DETROIT -- Police in Warren, Mich., are investigating the death of a man whose badly decomposed body was found in bed during a welfare check at his home Monday, Police Commissioner Bill Dwyer told the Detroit Free Press on Tuesday.

He identified the body as that of George Curtis, 68, who lived in the bungalow-style house.

Dwyer said a 62-year-...Read more

MIAMI -- Faced with a massive criminal case against him and the possibility of the death penalty, mass shooter Nikolas Cruz can keep his taxpayer-funded defense team, a judge ruled this week.

That means the Broward Public Defender's Office will continue in its quest to keep the 19-year-old off Florida's death row for the Feb. 14 massacre at ...Read more

MEXICO CITY -- Three Mexican film students whose disappearance last month sparked large-scale protests in the city of Guadalajara were beaten, killed and their bodies dissolved in acid, Mexican authorities said Monday.

Two suspects have been arrested in connection with the gruesome crime, said officials of the attorney general's office in ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The Trump administration launched an attack on the science behind many of the nation's clean air and clean water rules, announcing a proposal Tuesday that would effectively prevent regulators from considering a wide range of health studies when they look at new regulations.

The plan by Environmental Protection Agency Administrator...Read more

MIAMI -- Radios were so badly jammed as police responded to the worst school shooting in Florida history that sheriff's deputies and Coral Springs police clearing buildings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School had to communicate by hand.

Teachers tasked with locking their students inside their rooms to protect them during the six-minute ...Read more