Tobacco

Anyone under 21 can no longer legally buy cigarettes, cigars or any other tobacco products in the United States. The new law enacted last week by Congress also applies to electronic cigarettes and vaping products that heat a liquid containing nicotine. Usually, new legislation doesn’t take effect right away. The change simply increased the age limit in existing law, so…

Retired coal miners and longtime opponents of Obama-era taxes on high-cost health plans are eyeing big wins as top congressional leaders and the Trump White House close in on a deal on a government-wide spending bill. The bill would also increase the age nationwide for purchasing tobacco products from 18 to 21.

A group of thieves rammed a stolen pickup truck through the front door of a Florida gun shop and stole firearms and ammunition.

Federal agencies targeted a Miami Gardens street gang in an operation involving about 200 officers, seizing dozens of firearms and drugs.

An Army veteran wearing a mask and carrying more than 150 rounds of ammunition for his high-powered rifle was shot dead Monday after he opened fire outside a busy federal courthouse in downtown Dallas, authorities said. Brian Isaack Clyde, 22, was pronounced dead at a hospital following the shooting outside the downtown Earle Cabell Federal Building, FBI Special Agent in...

On Tuesday night, the Beverly Hills City Council is expected to consider recommendations from the health and safety committee to ban the sale of all tobacco products.

Local and federal law enforcement officers blocked off a shopping center parking lot in Kendall on Thursday after numerous suspicious metal canisters were found within a vehicle.

The Broward County Sheriff’s Office is searching for the suspect accused in at least 15 armed robberies in South Florida since September.

An investigation by NBC investigative units and the journalism nonprofit The Trace follows the flow of hundreds of thousands of stolen firearms to thousands of crime scenes.

An unidentified man who appeared on surveillance video near two of four shootings in a Tampa neighborhood is officially a suspect, police said Wednesday.

A man suspected of fatally shooting two men and a woman inside a suburban Denver Walmart was arrested 14 hours later following a brief car chase Thursday that ended at a congested intersection, police said. Scott Ostrem, 47, was arrested after police pulled over his car about 5 miles (8 kilometers) from the Walmart store in the city of Thornton,...

Police escorted children to school Monday and a city bus changed up its usual route as a neighborhood near downtown Tampa feared a serial killer may be on the loose.

The Las Vegas shooter killed dozens and injured hundreds within an hour. A South Florida gun shop owner explains how he may have modified two firearms, which could offer insight into the gunman’s monstrous rampage.

The FBI says agents investigating a pipe bomb explosion outside an Air Force recruiting station in Oklahoma now have a person of interest in custody. FBI agent Jessi Rice said Tuesday the person is being questioned, but that she could not give that person’s name. Rice said investigators found the person at a Tulsa-area apartment complex. Earlier Tuesday, federal authorities...

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Early morning fire destroys mosque in southeast Texas that’s been the scene of a crime twice before.

Residents and business owners in Gatlinburg, Tennessee got their first look at the wildfire destruction on Friday, and many walked around the once-bustling tourist city in a daze, sobbing. They hugged each other and promised that they would stay in touch. “We love it up here so much,” said Gary Moore, his voice trembling. “We lost everything. But we’re alive,...

An ex-convict who posted anti-Islamic rants online confessed to setting fire to a mosque that the Orlando nightclub shooter occasionally attended, and said he was embarrassed by the crime, according to an arrest affidavit released Thursday.

The Islamic community says it will repair and reopen the arson-damaged Florida mosque that was occasionally attended by Orlando nightclub gunman Omar Mateen.

Local and state law enforcement agencies underwent rigorous explosives training this week in Homestead.