CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. — The husband of Coral Springs Vice Mayor Nancy Metayer Bowen shot her dead at their home with a shotgun that had been muzzled with a pillow, according to police records released Thursday.

Officers found the vice mayor’s body, wrapped in a comforter and black trash bags, in the bedroom of her home in the 800 block of ...Read more

MIAMI — Nancy Metayer Bowen was a politically ambitious trailblazer for a new generation of Haitian Americans in South Florida before her tragic death, which is being criminally investigated, was announced Wednesday.

A twice-elected member of the Coral Springs City Council and the town’s current vice mayor, Metayer Bowen, 38, made history ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump ousted Pamela Bondi as attorney general Thursday, closing out a tumultuous tenure punctuated by rolling controversies and attacks against the Justice Department’s traditional independence from the White House.

Trump, who made the announcement in a social media post, said his former personal attorney, ...Read more

A federal judge has temporarily blocked the U.S. government from ending parole and work authorization for hundreds of thousands of migrants who entered the country using the CBP One app.

District Judge Allison D. Burroughs in Massachusetts ruled that the Department of Homeland Security acted unlawfully by terminating parole en masse without ...Read more

Spring is here — and wildlife activity is heating up in California.

“The arrival of warmer weather means black bears will be emerging from winter dens and actively searching for food,” the California Department of Fish and Wildlife said in a Facebook post March 16. “This includes mother bears with new cubs of the year and quite often ...Read more

BALTIMORE — The Maryland General Assembly has passed legislation requiring hospitals to provide emergency abortion care when needed to stabilize a patient. The House of Delegates passed the bill Thursday, 96-37, after the state Senate passed the bill in February.

“We have re-instituted a basic protection for women who, regardless of ...Read more

Proposals to ban or regulate kratom, a plant-based substance sold in gas stations, convenience stores and vape shops, are making headlines in local newspapers across the United States. But as lawmakers debate whether to regulate or ban kratom, public health problems associated with the drug continue to rise.

In late March 2026, the ...Read more

Pam Bondi is out as U.S. attorney general, President Donald Trump announced Thursday, after a tumultuous 14 months punctuated by the Justice Department’s scattershot release of millions documents it was forced to produce related to the sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

Bondi is the latest cabinet official to be removed from her post. But unlike...Read more

This week, the Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention posted online its first large tranche of advanced genetic data from measles viruses spreading last year. Scientists with knowledge of the operation expect the agency to post heaps more in weeks to come, revealing whether the U.S. has lost its hard-won measles elimination status.

The CDC...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The number of misconduct complaints filed against Minneapolis police Chief Brian O’Hara has doubled since September, bringing to 30 the total number filed during his three-year tenure.

That’s more than the total filed against the previous four chiefs combined. Not one of the prior chiefs — Amelia Huffman, Medaria Arrando, ...Read more

DENVER — The Colorado Court of Appeals threw out the nine-year sentence for discredited elections clerk Tina Peters on Thursday and ordered that she be re-sentenced by a district court judge.

The panel of three judges found that Mesa County District Court Judge Matthew Barrett wrongly based part of the original sentence on Peters’ exercise ...Read more

Six months after a West Virginia man died following a protracted battle with his health insurer over doctor-recommended cancer care, the state’s Republican governor signed a bill intended to curb the harm of insurance denials.

West Virginia’s Public Employees Insurance Agency enrolls nearly 215,000 people — state workers, as well as their...Read more

President Donald Trump fired Attorney General Pam Bondi Thursday after a rocky tenure marked by her fumbling of the Jeffrey Epstein scandal and her perceived failure to effectively carry out his campaign of legal retribution against political rivals.

Bondi will be replaced at least temporarily with her top deputy, Todd Blanche, who was ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s meandering speech on the Iran war late Wednesday — in which he paired promises of a swift exit with new threats of escalated bombing and denied responsibility for the Strait of Hormuz — did little to assuage U.S. allies and world markets concerned about the conflict’s ongoing disruptions to the global oil supply....Read more

President Donald Trump fired Attorney General Pam Bondi Thursday after a rocky tenure marked by her fumbling of the Jeffrey Epstein scandal and her perceived failure to effectively carry out his campaign of legal retribution against political rivals.

Bondi will be replaced at least temporarily with her top deputy, Todd Blanche, who was ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A group of Democratic senators led by Elizabeth Warren is pushing the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to rein in abuses from Medicare Advantage insurers as the Trump administration considers a policy that would enroll more seniors in the program.

The senators allege that Medicare Advantage is rife with waste, fraud and...Read more

DENVER — The Colorado Court of Appeals threw out the nine-year sentence for discredited elections clerk Tina Peters on Thursday and ordered that she be re-sentenced by a district court judge.

The panel of three judges found that Mesa County District Court Judge Matthew Barrett wrongly based part of the original sentence on Peters’ exercise ...Read more

President Donald Trump Thursday posted “Kangaroo Court!!!” in an apparent jab at the Supreme Court after it heard oral arguments in a case over birthright citizenship.

Although he didn’t elaborate, Trump’s two-word early morning outburst on his social media site seemed a reference to the conservative justices who sounded very skeptical ...Read more