DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Dallas, Florida and New York will host matches at next year’s men’s T20 World Cup, the governing body of cricket announced Wednesday. The United States will be staging a…

TAMPA, Fla. — Florida is now using artificial intelligence to monitor and transcribe the phone conversations of the state’s 80,000-plus inmates. The Florida Department of Corrections paid $2.5 million to California-based Leo Technologies to begin…

Representative’s husband dies in plane crash WASHINGTON — Eugene Peltola Jr., the husband of Rep. Mary Peltola, died following a plane crash, the Alaska Democrat’s office announced Wednesday. Peltola is returning to Alaska to be…

PERRY, Fla. (AP) — Tropical Storm Idalia headed out to sea Thursday after thrashing parts of Florida and Georgia with punishing rains and destructive winds, leaving residents to begin the arduous process of clearing fallen…

CEDAR KEY, Fla. (AP) — Hurricane Idalia made landfall Wednesday in Florida as a Category 3 storm and unleashed devastation along a wide stretch of the Gulf Coast, submerging homes and vehicles, turning streets into…

Since 1955, 13 Atlantic storm names beginning with “I” have been retired, according to the National Weather Service. That happens when a storm’s death toll or destruction is so severe that using its name again…

The water temperature around the tip of Florida has hit triple digits — hot tub levels — two days in a row. Meteorologists say it could be the hottest seawater ever measured, although some questions…

PERRYTON, Texas (AP) — Cleanup efforts continued Friday after severe storms — including some that produced tornadoes — tore across a swath of Southern states, killing at least five people as they destroyed hundreds of…

OCALA, Fla. (AP) — A Florida mother was fatally shot through the front door of her neighbor’s home while her 9-year-old son stood next to her, a violent culmination of what police said was a…

On the first day of the Atlantic hurricane season, the National Hurricane Center has raised the chances a system that formed in the Gulf of Mexico could grow into a tropical storm or depression. In…