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By Christy Choi, CNN (CNN) — Many celebrities will be well-versed in the power of the statement heel to complete a red carpet look, but at the Tony Awards on Sunday night in New York, Brooke Shields stole the spotlight in a statement flat. Stepping out in a pair of sunny Crocs to match her
Continue ReadingBy Joel Lopez Click here for updates on this story WEST PALM BEACH, Florida (WPTV) — Parents of the 8-year-old boy who drowned at the Boynton Inlet on Thursday have identified him as Saul Cerrato Jr. “He was the sweetest boy that will ever be,” said the boy’s mother Roxanne Batista. “He was the life
Continue ReadingPENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) — A plastic surgeon in the Florida Panhandle was charged with his wife’s death after she suffered a cardiac arrest and died days after he performed after-hours procedures on her in his clinic last year, authorities said. Benjamin Brown was arrested Monday on a charge of manslaughter by culpable negligence, which is
Continue ReadingBy RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — The strange monolith looks like it could have come from another world. Jutting out of the rocks in a remote mountain range near Las Vegas, the glimmering rectangular prism’s reflective surface imitates the vast desert landscape surrounding the mountain peak where it has been erected. But
Continue ReadingBy MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Residents of a southern New Mexican mountain village have fled their homes under evacuation orders with little time to rescue belongings as fast-moving wildfires bore down on the village of 7,000 residents. Traffic clogged Ruidoso’s downtown streets for hours Monday as smoke darkened the evening
Continue ReadingBy Kyung Lah, Zachary Cohen, Jack Hannah and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN (CNN) — Boris Epshteyn, a close adviser to Donald Trump and former White House aide, pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to election subversion charges stemming from an April indictment in Arizona. Epshteyn, who appeared in court Tuesday via phone, is one of 18 defendants who,
Continue ReadingBy Kate Hussey Click here for updates on this story MARTIN COUNTY, Florida (WPTV) — There is a passionate debate in a Martin County community concerning a sober home whose operators are asking for an increase in occupancy. On Monday, representatives of Voyage Recovery, a recovery residence located along Southeast Jupiter Road, stood before a
Continue ReadingBy Bryan Mena, CNN Washington (CNN) — Sales at US retailers rose last month at an unexpectedly weak pace as Americans continue to deal with still-high inflation and elevated interest rates. Retail sales rose just 0.1% in May from the prior month, the Commerce Department reported Tuesday. That’s better than April’s downwardly revised 0.2% decline
Continue ReadingHOUSTON (AP) — A Texas doctor who calls himself a whistleblower on transgender care for minors is accused of illegally obtaining information on patients who were not under his care. Dr. Eithan Haim has pleaded not guilty to federal charges that he wrongfully obtained individually identifiable health information in 2023. Federal prosecutors say he snatched
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Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Un juez federal bloqueó una ley de Iowa que habría permitido la detención de algunos inmigrantes indocumentados en el estado, después de que tanto el gobierno federal como un grupo de defensa de los inmigrantes interpusieran una demanda. En la sentencia del lunes, el juez de distrito Stephen H. Locher afirmó
Continue ReadingBy CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press MAYVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — The lawyer for the New Jersey man accused of repeatedly stabbing author Salman Rushdie says his client isn’t interested in an offered plea deal that would shorten his time in state prison but expose him to federal prison on a separate terrorism-related charge. Hadi Matar’s attorney,
Continue ReadingBy George Ramsay, CNN (CNN) — J.J. Rice, a United States-born kitefoiler who was hopeful of one day competing for Tonga at an Olympics, has died in a diving accident at the age of 18. A spokesperson for the Tongan National Olympic Committee confirmed Rice’s passing to CNN and said that the organization was “deeply
Continue ReadingBy DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer PINEHURST, N.C. (AP) — The temptation would be to refer to a change in the scorecard procedure as the “Jordan Rule,” only because Jordan Spieth was the most recent example. Players now have an additional 15 minutes to correct their scorecard before it is deemed to have been returned.
Continue ReadingBy Kendall Hyde Click here for updates on this story WEST PALM BEACH, Florida (WPTV) — A South Florida delivery service said a high-end, luxury vehicle ended up in the wrong hands after a costly hack. A 2024 Mercedes-Benz GLS600 Maybach valued at $200,000 is at the center of the theft. It all started when
Continue ReadingBy JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Lawyers Boris Epshteyn and Jenna Ellis and former U.S. Senate candidate James Lamon have pleaded not guilty to nine felony charges in a case about trying to overturn former President Donald Trump’s Arizona election loss to Joe Biden. The hearing Tuesday in a Phoenix courtroom marked the
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — The shooter who killed five people and injured 19 others at an LGBTQ+ club that was a refuge in the conservative city of Colorado Springs pleaded guilty to federal hate crimes and was sentenced to 55 life terms in prison on Tuesday, but once again declined to
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By Niamh Kennedy and Jomana Karadsheh, CNN (CNN) — Narges Mohammadi, Iran’s most prominent human rights activist and 2023 Nobel Peace Prize winner, has been sentenced to another year in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison, her lawyer said Tuesday. Jailed for most of the past two decades, Mohammadi was sentenced to a further stretch in prison
Continue ReadingBy JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Voters who don’t expect to be able to cast ballots themselves are scrambling to make their voices heard in France’s high-stakes legislative election. They’re signing up in their hundreds of thousands to hand their voting rights to loved ones and friends. The Interior Ministry said Tuesday that
Continue ReadingBy SAMY MAGDY Associated Press MINA, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Muslim pilgrims have wrapped up the Hajj pilgrimage in the deadly summer heat with the third day of the symbolic stoning of the devil, and the last circumambulation around the Kaaba, Islam’s holiest site, in the city of Mecca. The three-day stoning ritual in Mina
Continue ReadingMARIETTA, Ga. (AP) — Jail and prison records show that a father has been released from prison 10 years after his toddler died in a hot car, a case that made global headlines after prosecutors accused him of murder. Georgia Department of Corrections records show Justin Ross Harris was freed Sunday from Macon State Prison
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