Police tangled with student demonstrators in Texas and California while new encampments sprouted Wednesday at Harvard and other colleges as school leaders sought ways to defuse a growing wave of pro-Palestinian protests. At the University of Texas at Austin, dozens of local police and state troopers formed a line to prevent students from marching through the campus, eventually clashing with the protesters and detaining multiple people. And at the University of Southern California, police removed several tents, then got into a back-and-forth tugging match with protesters over tents before falli ..read more

A woman was struck and killed while trying to cross Interstate 95 in Miami Wednesday morning, authorities said. The incident happened around 6 a.m. on I-95 north in the area of Northwest 2nd Street. Florida Highway Patrol officials said the pedestrian was attempting to cross the roadway when she was struck by an oncoming white Honda SUV. The woman died at the scene as a result of her injuries, FHP officials said. Her identity hasn’t been released. The incident caused major traffic delays throughout much of the morning. Aerial footage from Chopper 6 showed traffic barely moving and completely b ..read more

Comedian Arj Barker asked a breastfeeding mother and her baby to leave his comedy show at the Athenaeum Theatre in Melbourne, Australia, on Saturday night, a decision that has sparked controversy online. In a statement posted to his Instagram page, Barker, an American comedian, said a baby sitting a few rows away from the stage was “talking” at the start of his show, prompting him to make a few jokes about it. But when the baby “called out again,” Barker became concerned. “I then calmly informed the woman holding the baby that the baby couldn’t stay,” he said in the statement. “I fel ..read more

A man was arrested and charged with two counts of video voyeurism after his tenant discovered that the smoke detector in her room was a hidden camera. Elias Samuel Payan, 42, was arrested Tuesday after his tenant, who has been renting a room from Payan in North Miami Beach since 2022 and lives there with two minors. Elias Samuel Payan According to the arrest report, the victim decided to check for hidden cameras in her room after noticing images of his room through a camera in Payan’s phone. The victim became concerned and while checking her room, she became suspicious of the smoke detectors P ..read more

An Air Force base in Tampa kicked off the work week with a scaly surprise, when an alligator decided to settle between the wheels of a large tanker plane on Monday. The MacDill Air Force Base took to social media with photos of the gator on the runway and a video of Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officers later wrangling it. Officials said the combative alligator was later relocated to the Hillsborough River. There were no injuries reported from this incident. This story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in your web browser ..read more

A Miramar Officer arrested last year for having sex with a 17-year-old girl has pleaded guilty to an aggravated child abuse charge.  30-year-old Jose Hernandez was initially charged with having sex with a minor which is a felony charge and contributing to the delinquency of a minor charge.  As part of the deal, Hernandez pleaded guilty to an aggravated child abuse charge and was sentenced to 10 years probation.  The deal also forces him to turn is police certification and he must stay away from the victim.  According to a warrant, the teen met Hernandez through the dating a ..read more

The nation’s school meals will get a makeover under new nutrition standards that limit added sugars for the first time, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Wednesday. The final rule also trims sodium in kids’ meals, although not by the 30% first proposed in 2023. And it continues to allow flavored milks — such as chocolate milk — with less sugar, rather than adopting an option that would have offered only unflavored milk to the youngest kids. The aim is to improve nutrition and align with U.S. dietary guidelines in the program that provides breakfasts to more than 15 million students ..read more

A St. Petersburg woman was arrested and charged with DUI on Tuesday morning after FHP troopers had to forcibly stop her from driving the wrong way on a highway. Cynthia Elizabeth Serrano Roncal, 27, was spotted driving north in the southbound lanes of Interstate 275 at about 12:41 a.m., according to arrest affidavits. A trooper was caught on dash camera video trying to pull her over, but the woman refused to stop. The trooper eventually attempted a PIT maneuver to stop the vehicle, but the woman kept driving even after swerving out of the roadway, video shows. The driver stopped after a s ..read more

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