SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Near-record amounts of seaweed are smothering Caribbean coasts from Puerto Rico to Barbados, killing fish and other wildlife, choking tourism and releasing stinky, noxious gases. More than 24 million tons of sargassum blanketed the Atlantic in June,...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida State fired coach Mike Martin Jr. after the Seminoles failed to advance out of NCAA regionals for a second straight year. Athletic director Michael Alford said Friday a national search for a new coach would begin immediately. Martin...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Louisiana Supreme Court has rejected a former sheriff’s deputy’s claim that she should be able to take back her guilty plea in her husband’s death because she made the plea rather than face a jury process that was later found unconstitutional. The high...