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“Real Housewives of New Jersey” star Dina Manzo’s ex-husband and an alleged member of an organized crime family were charged by federal prosecutors Tuesday with conspiring to assault Manzo’s then-boyfriend in an incident in 2015. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in New Jersey said Thomas Manzo and John Perna faces multiple charges over the assault on her now-husband, David Cantin...

A dog that was ordered to be euthanized despite a pardon issued by Maine’s governor could get a second chance at life as a sled dog.

A massive search continues in Fort Lauderdale after a murder suspect escaped police custody at the Broward County Courthouse Friday morning.

A southwest Florida prosecutor assigned by the governor to investigate a bribery complaint against President Donald Trump and Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi has found insufficient evidence to move forward.

A New Zealand jury on Friday found a man guilty of murder in the death of 22-year-old British backpacker Grace Millane. Millane died last December on her birthday after meeting the man through the dating app Tinder, going out for drinks with him, and then returning to his hotel apartment in central Auckland. Prosecutors said the man strangled Millane to...

A scandal over alleged sexual molestation and abuse at the Vatican’s youth seminary is growing, with more former papal altar boys alleging inappropriate behavior by priests inside the Vatican walls. Le Iene, an Italian investigative television program, plans to air the new allegations Sunday; the show provided the broadcast to The Associated Press ahead of time. The Vatican announced in...

A gruesome car crash that took place Saturday evening left a mother of two dead and shut down access on and off the island of Key Biscayne for about eight hours while police investigated the scene.

A Miami Beach man was arrested after he allegedly tried to rob and expose himself to a woman as she walked home from the laundromat, police said.

A Florida state inmate has been sentenced to 2 ½ years in federal prison for threatening a federal prosecutor. Court records say 25-year-old Dylan Ray Langley was sentenced this week in Jacksonville. He pleaded guilty in June to mailing threatening communications. Authorities say Langley was serving time at a Daytona Beach facility for armed robbery in 2017 when he mailed…

Judge Tammy Kemp, who hugged Amber Guyger and gave her a Bible after the conclusion of Guyger’s murder trial, is coming under scrutiny over whether she crossed an ethical line.

Car lovers from around the world splashed out more than $27 million at an auction Sunday for dozens of luxury cars seized from the son of Equatorial Guinea’s president in a Swiss money-laundering probe. The 25 lots sold by auction house Bonhams included a white-and-cream 2014 Lamborghini Veneno roadster that cost the buyer 8.28 million Swiss francs ($8.4 million), comprising...

A judge has rejected a request by defense attorneys in the Florida high school massacre case to remove the state’s prosecutors because they won’t reconsider seeking the death penalty.

More than once, President Donald Trump brought up how much the U.S. has done for Ukraine. Time and again, he asked Ukraine’s president for help. There was no explicit quid pro quo in Trump’s half-hour phone call with Volodymyr Zelenskiy last July. But it wouldn’t have been a stretch to make a connection between Trump’s pleas for help and his...

A member of an international team supporting the search for 43 missing students in southern Mexico said Wednesday that new information has led Mexican authorities to begin working at another garbage dump. The dump outside the town of Iguala, Guerrero “is in the epicenter of the action,” said former Colombian prosecutor Ángela Buitrago of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights...

Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., likened President Donald Trump’s conversation with the Ukrainian president to that of a mob boss.