A woman who detectives have been searching for months after she allegedly crashed into a man who was helping push a broken down car was found and arrested Thursday afternoon, police said.
Tydaijah Sade Lashone Murray, 29, is facing charges of leaving the scene of a crash with serious bodily injury, failure to remain on the scene of an accident involving injury, driving with a suspended license and resisting without violence, Fort Lauderdale Police said in a news release Thursday evening.
Murray had evaded detectives since Aug. 11, when police say she crashed into Yevhenii Arsirii, 31, as he...
By MEG KINNARD, Associated Press
A debate over the debt ceiling is at the center of a dispute over funding that is pushing Washington to the brink of a federal government shutdown.
President-elect Donald Trump has demanded that a provision raising or suspending the nation’s debt limit — something that his own party routinely resists — be included in legislation to avert a government shutdown. “Anything else is a betrayal of our country,” Trump said in a statement Wednesday.
Republicans quickly complied, including a provision in a revamped government funding proposal that would suspend the...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Two new baby lizards have hatched at the Los Angeles Zoo, the first of their species to be bred there, zoo officials said Thursday.
Perentie lizards, or Varanus giganteus, are native to Australia and one of the world’s largest lizards, dwarfed only by the Komodo dragon and a few others.
This photo provided by the Los Angeles Zoo shows one of two newly born perentie lizards at the zoo, Thursday, Dec. 12, 2024, in Los Angeles. (Jamie Pham/Los Angeles Zoo via AP)
“It is incredibly rewarding for our team to experience success breeding this species,” zoo curator Byron Wusstig...
By STEVE LeBLANC
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Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies shot an armed man dead following a pursuit near the Fort Lauderdale Tri-Rail station, officials say.
Just before 2 p.m., deputies responded to a report of a “domestic disturbance with a firearm” at a home in Broward County, Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Carey Codd said in a news release.
An armed man fled the home, and deputies pursued him to the intersection of Southwest First Street and Southwest 21st Terrace in Fort Lauderdale, next to the Tri-Rail station, Codd said. There, the deputies had an “encounter” with the man, and multiple deputies fired their...
By ZEKE MILLER and AAMER MADHANI
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Donald Trump hosted Apple CEO Tim Cook for a Friday evening dinner at the president-elect’s Mar-a-Lago resort, according to a person familiar with the matter who was not authorized to comment publicly.
Cook is the latest in a string of big tech leaders — including OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos — who have sought to improve their standing with the incoming president after choppy relations with Trump during his first term.
Trump has said he has spoken with Cook about the company’s long-running...