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MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis wasn’t in Miami Beach Saturday night, but his presence was felt. The Florida Democratic Party held its annual Leadership Blue gala here, the party’s largest gathering since DeSantis won re-election by nearly 20 percentage points last year, a landslide victory that in many ways felt like the nail in the coffin for Florida Democrats and served as a launching pad for the governor’s 2024 presidential bid. The mood that hung in the air for most of the weekend, however, was not that of a decadent party. The faltering presidential campaign of DeSantis, who…

Spectators at the show allegedly threw objects into the cargo container. SACRAMENTO, Calif. – A street takeover in the Sacramento area turned violent after California Highway Patrol troopers say bystanders broke into an Amazon truck. In a Facebook post Saturday morningCHP Valley Division Air Operations said they assisted the Sacramento and Elk Grove Police Departments after sideshows involving hundreds of vehicles and bystanders were reported. At one point, an Amazon truck driver was surrounded as people began climbing up and throwing objects at the semi, according to video released by the CHP. Eventually, show goers allegedly broke into the cargo…

Saturday, July 8, 2023 11:50 p.m RICHMOND HILL, Queens — Four people were shot and one person was killed by a man on an illegal motorcycle in several related shootings in Brooklyn and Queens. The first shooting happened around 11 a.m. Saturday in Cypress Hills. Brooklyn, where the gunman shot a man. Police say he then shot three other people in Queens. The suspect then shot a man in the back around 11:30 a.m. Saturday near a nail salon at 108th Street and Jamaica Avenue in Richmond Hill. The 87-year-old victim was pronounced dead. Less than ten minutes later, the…

A man used a motorized scooter to go from victim to victim in a shooting in New York City on Saturday that left one dead, three injured and a suspect in custody, police said. The apparently random attacks in Brooklyn and Queens began at 11:10 a.m., police said, and officially ended exactly two hours later with a suspect arrested in the last neighborhood, police said. The man, identified only as a 25-year-old with a prior arrest, had a 9mm semi-automatic handgun with an extended magazine and an “illegal” scooter with no license plates, said NYPD First Deputy , Edward Caban,…

A husband and wife who died at their home Friday afternoon in Pulaski County may have been overcome by carbon monoxide, according to the sheriff’s office. A vehicle was left running for some time in the garage of the home of Lewis Catron, 77, and his wife Carol Catron, 73, which may have led to a deadly level of carbon monoxide in the home, the Pulaski County Sheriff Bobby Jones said. a release Harold Catron was a longtime member of the sheriff’s office and was serving as an honorary deputy at the time of his death. He was the older…

Six people were killed when a business jet traveling from Las Vegas to Southern California crashed into a field on approach to an airport and then burst into flames, authorities said. The crash happened around 4:15 a.m. PT Saturday in Murrieta, Riverside County, according to the National Transportation Safety Board. The Cessna C550 business jet had departed Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas at about 3:15 a.m. PT and “crashed short of French Valley Airport on its second approach,” said the NTSB based on preliminary information. The scene of a fatal plane crash in Murrieta, California on July 8,…

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Joe Biden leaves for Europe on Sundaywhere he will spend time in three nations considering the alliances that have been tested by The Russian invasion of Ukraine. After arriving overnight in London, Biden will meet King Charles III the next day for the first time since then was crowned. Next is the centerpiece of the trip, the NATO summit in Vilnius Lithuania. Alliance leaders will discuss the war and review plans to deal with Russian aggression. The final stop is in Helsinki, where Biden is expected to celebrate the expanding alliance on Thursday, with Finland as…

Authorities are searching for an inmate described as “very dangerous” who officials say escaped from a prison in northwestern Pennsylvania using bed sheets. WARREN, Pa. — Authorities searched Saturday for an inmate described by police as “very dangerous” who escaped from a prison in northwestern Pennsylvania using bed sheets, officials said. Michael Burham was last seen wearing a blue denim prison coat, white and orange pants and orange shoes, Warren police said Friday. Burham was being held on arson and burglary charges and was a suspect in a homicide investigation, police said. He was also associated with a carjacking and…