A first-call keyboardist, he worked with Elvis Presley and Dolly Parton, helped make Muscle Shoals a recording hub, and had a key role in redefining the sound of country.
Floyd Collins was pinned under a rock while exploring a cave in 1925. That history, recounted in song, is now on Broadway.
State Senator Jason Pizzo, the Democratic minority leader, announced in a floor speech that he was leaving the party.
The Hope Florida Foundation quietly gave the money to two nonprofit political committees that helped Gov. Ron DeSantis and his allies defeat a ballot measure.
A statement on his Facebook page said Mr. Holland had died in a crash at the base in Virginia, where he was planning to perform in an air show this weekend.
The severe weather is typical for this time of year but also unpredictable. Forecasters said Texas may see hail as large as baseballs.
Atlanta is a movie production hub and the home to prominent rappers, so the Hawks have dedicated resources to recruit famous faces like Anne Hathaway and Gucci Mane.
Korbein Schultz, 25, who was an intelligence analyst, accepted $42,000 in bribes for sensitive documents, prosecutors said. He pleaded guilty in 2024.
The Tennessee Board of Parole unanimously determined that the country star should be pardoned, but the decision is in the hands of the governor.
Lingering storms drenched the city with over a month’s worth of rain, swamping roads and stranding drivers.
The Republican challenger has embarked on an extraordinary effort to reverse his election loss that critics say is testing the boundaries of post-election litigation.
The primary race in Kentucky for Mr. McConnell’s seat is expected to be one of the biggest G.O.P. clashes of 2026. On Tuesday, it gained its second high-profile contender, Representative Andy Barr.
Simple, affordable initiatives like rain gardens are helping to soak up water in New Orleans.
Flames erupted around the plane on the tarmac at Orlando International Airport on Monday. There were no reported injuries after passengers fled by emergency slides.
For years a textile mill gave farmers its sewage sludge as free fertilizer. Today the land is full of “forever chemicals.”
Two people died after their vehicle was trapped in floodwaters and one person was killed in a tornado, officials said. Severe weather threatened parts of Arkansas and Missouri on Sunday.
For decades, the share of American Catholics declined in the face in secularization. But in recent years, those numbers have stabilized, buoyed by growing communities and broader societal changes.
Forecasters warned of heavy rain and thunderstorms. At least one tornado touched down in rural Texas on Saturday, a forecaster said.
The stand-up comic discusses having a magician for a father, the challenge of mainstream comedy and his aspirations to build the next Disneyland.
His biological mother said in an interview on Friday that she was bewildered by the attack, and had been against the presence of firearms in her son’s life.
Cedric Lodge stole organs from cadavers that had been donated for medical research, prosecutors said. The university fired him in 2023.
Heard on Bob Dylan’s “Blonde on Blonde” among other albums, he also sang and was a writer of the perennial “Everlasting Love.”
The HBO hit’s theological problems.
Plus, meat is making a comeback.
When Chike Ozah and Kellie Brown crossed paths in person, she wasn’t ready for a romantic relationship, but Mr. Ozah remained persistent.
Two people were killed and six others were injured when a 20-year-old gunman opened fire on campus on Thursday. Court records show the suspect had a chaotic upbringing.
The suspect, a 20-year-old student at the university, was the stepson of a local sheriff’s deputy and espoused far-right views, according to the authorities, court records and classmates.
Students evacuated after an active shooter opened fire near the university’s student union building on Thursday. Officials identified the shooter as a 20-year-old student at the university and son of a county sheriff’s deputy.
For some, the sight of law enforcement officers in tactical gear on Thursday, sweeping campus for a gunman, was familiar.
The campus, where a gunman killed two people on Thursday, experienced another shooting over a decade ago that left three people injured.
The police identified the gunman as a 20-year-old student who is the son of a Leon County sheriff’s deputy. Neither of the slain victims was a student at the university.
Mary Ellen Masters and her crew serve Florida history, with a fiery kick, at the St. Ambrose Spring Fair.
Forecasters warned of heavy rain and thunderstorms, raising the risk of floods through the weekend.
Despite some attempts to create controlled environments aimed at thwarting disruptions by protesters, congressional Republicans who are holding town halls are catching continued heat from their constituents.
Orlando is a collection of neighborhoods, each with its own personality. There are hipster hangouts, microbreweries, an elegant shopping neighborhood — and airboats through the wetlands where you might just spot an alligator.
The men were thrown overboard when two boats collided in Lewis Smith Lake on Wednesday morning, the authorities said.
The head of a U.S. housing agency told prosecutors that Letitia James appeared to have falsified real estate records, a move that could be the start of an investigation of a key Trump adversary.
The Michigan man emailed to say “someone might have a bomb” when his girlfriend went on a Caribbean cruise with her family, leaving him to care for their pets, according to court filings.
A rowhouse in Bordentown, a cottage in New Orleans and a Craftsman bungalow in Little Rock.
Three people, including the two who were subdued with stun guns, were arrested.
Four people were rescued on Sunday, two days after the boat capsized off the state’s Atlantic coast, the authorities said.
Striving to stay relevant, the former congressman is showing how in Trump World, political resurrection remains a possibility, no matter how low you go.
Some cities discourage spring breakers, but towns along the Gulf Coast, where every dollar is crucial after Hurricanes Helene and Milton, were eager for an influx.
Buoyed by the interests of the family behind Walmart, Bentonville has become an unexpected hub for cycling.
La región Upstate de Carolina del Sur se salvó gracias a empresas extranjeras tras la caída de su industria textil. Ahora, los aranceles plantean otra ronda de incertidumbre.
With nearly perfect weather for the weekend, the Augusta National course provided a breathtaking backdrop for the first major tournament of the men’s golf season.
The Upstate region of South Carolina was saved by foreign companies after the fall of its textile industry. Now, tariffs pose another round of uncertainty.
The founding LIV Golf commissioner talked with The Times soon after stepping down as chief executive of the Saudi-backed tour that fractured the sport.
Mikal Mahdi’s execution came about a month after the first person in state history was killed in such a manner. Before that, no person had been killed by a firing squad in the United States in 15 years.
The number of ballots in question exceeds the slim margin by which the Democratic incumbent won, potentially leading to the November election being overturned.
The decision by a judge in Louisiana is an early victory for Secretary of State Marco Rubio, but a broader challenge is still being heard in federal court in Newark.
The dealer, Leslie Roberts of Miami Fine Art Gallery, was accused of using fake invoices and forged authentication documents to make the works appear legitimate.
Large plumes of smoke billowed into the air after a plane crashed in Boca Raton, Fla., on Friday morning.
The veto by Mayor Daniella Levine Cava, a Democrat, pushed back on a growing campaign against the mineral, which has been used for decades to prevent cavities.
A man in a car also was injured when the small plane crashed near an interstate overpass a short distance from Boca Raton Airport in Florida, the authorities said.
To heal a nation, the U.S. Pavilion in Venice showcases the surprising permutations of the porch.
To heal a nation, the U.S. Pavilion in Venice showcases the surprising permutations of the porch.
Lawyers for the detained Columbia graduate said that the lack of substantive charges against him requires more information from the secretary of state. They acknowledge they are likely to fail.
The company said it was voluntarily recalling 189 cases of its eight-ounce, sea-salted Extra Creamy Premium Butter after it found elevated levels of coliform bacteria.
The grass and trees at Augusta National Golf Club help make the course a treasure — but also an allergy nightmare.
En un mundo polarizado, cada vez más personas en EE. UU. se alistan para las crisis, ya sea para luchar contra un gobierno tiránico, repeler a un ejército invasor o responder a una catástrofe.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit sided with the government to block a lower-court ruling that had led to the reinstatement of thousands of federal workers.
John Waldrop, an orthopedic surgeon, amassed a vast collection of ornithological specimens as part of what he called an “obsessive hobby.” He’s now into wood carvings.
The spacecraft are the online giant’s entry into beaming wireless service from space, but the company has much to do before it can compete with SpaceX’s Starlink.
An 1875 home in Kennebunkport, a converted church in Thunderbolt and a contemporary home in Phoenix
Once thought of as a fringe mind-set, the prepared citizen movement is gaining traction in a world shaped by war, the pandemic and extreme weather.
Three others were injured in the shooting on a suburban street in Spotsylvania County, southwest of Washington, D.C. Four suspects were in custody, the authorities said.
In an interview, the Republican governor of Virginia spoke at length about his views on diversity efforts, among other subjects.
Not long before he became Virginia’s governor, Glenn Youngkin helped lead, and spoke approvingly of, efforts to improve racial and gender diversity at his private equity firm.
The already battered spirits industry will see its supply squeezed if tariffs raise import costs and other countries’ retaliation closes off export markets.
Fuertes lluvias, vientos dañinos y peligrosas inundaciones han asolado el Sur y el Medio Oeste durante días, matando al menos a 18 personas.
The authorities said that the killings appeared to have stemmed from a domestic dispute. Investigators in Perry, Ga., said the four victims, who ranged in age from 2 to 82, were related.
A razor-close race for a seat on the court is the last 2024 statewide election in the nation to remain uncertified.
Marcy Rheintgen said she was held in jail overnight after she deliberately challenged a state law by entering a women’s bathroom in the government building.
Heavy rains, damaging winds and dangerous floods have ravaged the South and the Midwest for days, killing at least 23 people.
Eliminating federal funding for the humanities saves next to no money, but it will cost the American people something precious.
After years struggling to compete with cheaper, farm-raised imported shrimp, shrimpers from Florida to Louisiana are optimistic that the new tariffs will help them.
For years, the country’s lowest-scoring students were steadily improving on national tests. Starting around 2013, something changed.
The storm inundating a large stretch of the South and Midwest has wreaked havoc since Wednesday. But heavy rain and flooding are likely to ease considerably by Monday.
The verdict will likely influence similar lawsuits against other oil companies over coastal damage in the state.
The party was on at a Saudi-backed LIV Golf tournament at the president’s Doral resort in Florida and a fund-raiser at Mar-a-Lago, even as markets tumbled.
The rising water levels have prompted rescues and road closures. The storm, which has killed at least 16 people, doesn’t show signs of letting up.
The new $7 billion theme park in Orlando opens in May. With it, Universal aims to challenge Disney by letting visitors explore lands based on movies and games.
Viewers have obsessed over whether the accents in Season 3 were credible, or another atrocious attempt by Hollywood to replicate a Southern dialect.
The student, Rumeysa Ozturk, was detained by ICE agents in Massachusetts, driven to Vermont and flown to a detention center in Louisiana, where the government was trying to argue her court case.
A light, classic coconut cake in all its old-fashioned glory.
The ruling was a win for the Republican who narrowly lost a State Supreme Court race in November. The case has tested the boundaries of post-election litigation.
A law student in Florida has a lucrative side gig: fund-raising consultant. His firm earns a 25 percent cut of “profit” from donations, and critics have begun to pile up after two special elections.
Waters continued to rise in communities from Arkansas to Michigan as the storm, which has killed at least eight, drenched the region. More tornadoes were also possible.
As the artist’s posthumous retrospective opens at SFMOMA, a reporter visits her family home and studio in Noe Valley, the center of her pioneering sculpture practice.
Una persona expuesta a concentraciones elevadas del gas durante un periodo prolongado de tiempo puede perder el conocimiento y dejar de respirar, lo que conduce a la muerte.
The severe weather stretched from Texas to Ohio, causing tornadoes and flooding across the central United States.
A nonprofit group said the president misapplied a law in imposing those levies and portrayed its filing as the first lawsuit to challenge the Trump administration over its tariffs.
After hail, heavy rains and more than 30 tornadoes drenched the region, officials warned that a “generational flooding” disaster was possible.
After being picked up in Massachusetts, Rumeysa Ozturk was moved to a detention center in Louisiana, where the government wants to argue its case to deport her.
At least two Weather Service offices in Kentucky cited the continued threat of bad weather.
At least one siren in the southwestern part of the city was still out of service, and the Fire Department did not say how long repairs would take.
Nearly 30 tornadoes were confirmed in several states after the first wave of the storm and floodwaters overtook streets in Tennessee.
Miller Gardner, the 14-year-old son of the retired Yankees player Brett Gardner, died from carbon monoxide poisoning while on vacation in Costa Rica. Here’s why the gas is so dangerous.
The district attorney’s office in Fulton County, Ga., had cited a post in which the rapper referred to a gang investigator as the “Biggest liar in the DA office.”
A summary of the police investigation, released two years after the attack, found that the shooter had spent years planning the violence and covering up mental health problems.
Democrats achieved their biggest gains to date in the second Trump era, winning a fiercely contested State Supreme Court race in Wisconsin, while also landing relatively strong showings despite losing two Florida special elections. Shane Goldmache...
Energizados contra la nueva era Trump, y contra Elon Musk, los demócratas lograron una victoria judicial clave en Wisconsin y acortaron los márgenes republicanos en dos comicios al Congreso en Florida.
Trump wants to give power back to the states. Some states are lowering standards.
A midcentury modern home in Murray, a Craftsman in Birmingham and a brick rowhouse in Washington
The party’s position remains dire. But a judicial victory in Wisconsin and closer-than-expected losses in Florida suggest a once-demoralized Democratic base is animated again.
Energized against the new Trump era, and against Elon Musk, Democrats pulled off a crucial judicial victory in Wisconsin and cut into Republican margins in two Florida congressional races.
The Republicans who were elected on Tuesday to fill seats left empty by Matt Gaetz and Michael Waltz had President Trump’s backing.
Get live results and maps from the 2025 Florida special elections.
Get live results and maps from the 2025 Florida special election.
Get live results and maps from the 2025 Florida special election.
El fármaco se ha convertido en una especie de símbolo de resistencia a lo que algunos en el movimiento MAGA describen como una élite corrupta.
Chun Wang, a Chinese-born crypto entrepreneur, paid an undisclosed amount for the mission. Some satellites are already in polar orbit, and researchers called it a routine flight.
Plus, the return of the rotating restaurant.
They have come out in strong numbers in smaller races so far this year, and in the early voting for today’s elections.
In Florida, Brightline has proved that it can operate reliable, well-designed passenger trains that people want to ride. Can the public sector do the same?
Voters in a crucial court race and two House special elections will provide hints of how the country views President Trump and Elon Musk, months after they took power.
The state attorney general had raised the possibility of charging doctors with criminal conspiracy for recommending abortion care out of state.
A federal judge ruled that Alabama could not prosecute doctors and reproductive health organizations for helping patients travel out of the state to obtain abortions.
Alabama, Texas and New Mexico warned that the seeds, which apparently came from China, could sprout into invasive plants, officials said.
A couple and their architect friend built a family home that celebrates hyperlocal building materials.
Five years after the pandemic began, interest in the anti-parasitic drug is rising again as right-wing influencers promote it — and spread misinformation about it.
A House race in a deep-red Florida district is seeing millions of dollars in spending ahead of Tuesday’s election. Even in a loss, Democrats hope it will signal much-needed momentum.
Robert Irvine has been enlisted to overhaul the dreary mess hall menus that drive many soldiers to less-healthy choices.
Forecasters warned of widespread damaging winds, very large hail and tornadoes, from Texas to the East Coast starting on Sunday.
En el país no se fabrican armas y su envío es ilegal, pero a las bandas que aterrorizan la capital del país, Puerto Príncipe, parece nunca faltarles.
Democrats are hoping to do better in Florida’s Sixth District than they did in November, when President Trump won it by 30 points.
Federal authorities in several countries have recently nabbed several caches of weapons headed to Haiti, but armed violence continues to rise there, with gangs increasingly obtaining high-caliber firearms and ammunition.
Mr. Kingston, who is best known for his 2007 hit single “Beautiful Girls,” and his mother were charged with defrauding sellers of high-end vehicles, jewelry and other goods, prosecutors said.
On Saturday the U.S. figure skating star became the men’s world champion for the second straight year. To get there, he had to channel his grief over losing fellow skaters in January’s D.C. plane crash.
In Mississippi, a sheriff accused of staffing his family’s commercial chicken farm with inmates defended the practice, saying he always paid them.
Voters in two heavily Republican House districts in Florida will decide who to send to Congress. See which party is ahead in turnout so far.
The sheriff’s office in Grainger County, Tenn., is investigating the theft after shipments from a meat processing facility were loaded onto trucks and never reached their destinations.
Several airlines have reduced the number of seats on U.S.-bound flights in April, while industry data shows that bookings have declined significantly.
In Mississippi, incarcerated trusties cleaned chicken houses, fixed cars and installed flooring for the benefit of a local sheriff and his associates, a new investigation found.
A FEMA funding freeze illustrates the extraordinary power of Elon Musk and DOGE, who have made claims of undue benefits for undocumented immigrants and spurred swift action by federal officials.
In some ways, the prodigy now starring for Arkansas in the N.C.A.A. tournament is an urban basketball archetype. But this is not the same old story.
“Vaccines should be treated with nuance, recognizing differences between seasonal vaccines and childhood immunizations,” Dr. Ralph L. Abraham, the state’s surgeon general, wrote in a memo.
With little post-pandemic recovery, experts wonder if screen time and school absence are among the causes.
The city was seeing glimmers of optimism for what the new year might bring before the horrendous attack on the French Quarter.
The preparers filed for pandemic-related tax credits on behalf of ineligible clients and then netted hefty filing fees, officials said.
Voters in the Virginia suburbs shifted toward Trump. Some said they were still frustrated by pandemic closures and fights over gender, race and testing in schools.
Facebook Marketplace, a platform often used for furniture and electronics, is an increasingly popular place to buy and sell home-cooked meals.
The Mark Robinson story is yet another case of self-declared morality being at variance with actual behavior.
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The woman, 29, was struck by her own vehicle after the suspects began driving away, the police said.