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Ruth Bader Ginsburgis heading back to the big screen to prove that it’s not just a man’s world in the upcoming movieOn the Basis of Sex.Focus Features released the historical drama’s first trailer, starringFelicity Jonesas Ginsburg, the bright-eyed young lawyer who makes a splash as the one woman among many men in a sea of lawmakers.This year’s hit documentaryRBGhas already earned itself some Oscar buzz, and now a younger version of the now 85-year-old Supreme Court justice seems poised to enter the race as well....

Photo: twitter The fiancée of a journalist who was fatally shot last month wants to keep his legacy alive. Dylan Lyons, a Spectrum News 13 reporter, was killed on Feb. 22 when a gunman opened fire on him and photojournalist Jesse Walden — who was critically injured — as they sat in their car in the Pine Hills neighborhood of Orlando. The woman who was set to be Dylan’s wife is now asking for help to have his child....

Wayne Brady in ‘The Wiz’.Photo:Jeremy Daniel Jeremy Daniel Wayne Bradyis ready to see you now! The five-time Emmy winner has stepped into the title role of theBroadway-bound musical revival ofThe Wiz,and PEOPLE has an exclusive first look at him in action. Theater-goers can see Brady as the Wiz in the acclaimed musical’s pre-Broadway National Tour, which is now playing through Feb. 11 at Golden Gate Theatre in San Francisco. It’ll next come to Los Angeles' Hollywood Pantages Theatre from Feb....

01of 13Paying Tribute to an IconMilton H. Green, 2020 Joshua Green Archive, courtesy BonhamsWhenDiahann Carroll diedat 84 last October, the actress and singer left behind a trail she blazed across six decades in Hollywood. She was the first African American Emmy nominee, back in 1963. She became the first African American woman to star in a non-servant role on televisionand to win the Tony award for Best Actress in a Musical....

Photo: PA House “That was protest. That was not an invocation. That was not a prayer,” the representative being sworn in, Movita Johnson-Harrell, tells PEOPLE. “It was a protest to the first Muslim woman coming to the House of Representatives.” “God forgive us, Jesus, we’ve lost sight of you,” she said. “I, Jesus, am your ambassador today,” she said. At the very end of her prayer, Borowicz quoted the Bible: “Every knee will bow and every tongue will confess, Jesus, that you are Lord....

Chelsea Nandor.Photo: FacebookA man in Florida is accused of murdering his girlfriend and then staging the scene as a suicide.Clinton Pittman, 38, has been charged with homicide, tampering with evidence and two counts of possession of a firearm as a felon, according tothe North Port Police Department.On Tuesday, North Port police responded to a call reporting an attempted suicide. Upon arrival, they found Chelsea Nandor suffering from a gunshot wound to the left side of her head, with a gun in her left hand,WFLA reports....

West Virginia is in the midst of a rash ofdeadly flooding , and one particularly dystopian video shows what seems to be a burning house float through a creek in the town ofWhite Sulphur Springs . Floodwater push a burning#homedown a creek in#WestVirginia.#wvwx 🎬 Amanda Carperpic.twitter.com/zJSMe95nLk — America ’s Morning Headquarters ( @AMHQ)June 24 , 2016 West Virginia MetroNewsreports that the house was seen floating down Howard ’s Creek on Thursday afternoon ....

Pastor Joseph Cooper.Photo: news4 jax/ youtube A Florida church is urging its members to get vaccinated after six parishioners — all of whom were unvaccinated —died of COVID-19in the last ten days. Impact Church in Jacksonville is reeling from the sudden losses, with most of the deaths occurring in younger members. “All were healthy, all had no preexisting conditions. Four of them were under the age of 30, and they were all unvaccinated,” Pastor Joseph Coopertold News4Jax....

L: Jazmin Keltz; R: The high-speed police chase ended with this Audi crashing.Photo:Gofundme;nbcmiami Gofundme;nbcmiami A 15-year-old boy is dead and a 14-year-old girl critically injured following a Miami-Dade police chase in the early morning hours of Wednesday, according to police. Miami-Dade police officers received a call about a suspicious vehicle around 2 a.m. Wednesday, the department said in its most recent press statement. About that time, the officers saw “a vehicle matching the description” traveling eastbound on SW 56 Street “at a high rate of speed,” according to the news release, which continues: “Officers attempted to approach the vehicle in order to further investigate, at which time the driver lost control of the vehicle, colliding into a concrete pillar....

Photo: Education Images/Universal Images Group/GettyIt is raining iguanas in the sunshine state.Florida’s recent bout of cold weather is causing stunned iguanas to lose their grip and fall out of trees.On Sunday, temperatures in south Florida dropped to 25 degrees,Reutersreported per the National Weather Service (NWS). The freezing weather shocked the area’s humane and reptile residents.According to the NWS, iguanas are cold-blooded, and theirbodies can go dormantwhen exposed to temperatures less than 45 degrees....

The biographical drama, which iscurrently streaming on Disney+, tells the story of Bridges, who was “subjected to the true ugliness of racism for the first time” when she was chosen to integrate her local school, according to an official description of the film. Although the film will not be shown to students at the St. Petersburg school while a review of the film is conducted, it has not been removed from all schools....

Photo:Todd Pratt/Hillsborough County via AP Todd Pratt/Hillsborough County via AP A sinkhole in Florida has opened for the third time — 10 years after it killed a man while he slept. In a statementposted on its websiteon Monday, Hillsborough County officials said they “were on site” in Seffner, a Tampa suburb, to “determine the extent of the void,” which was a “reopening of a previous sinkhole on the site from 2013....

Republic National Distributing Company south of Tampa in Gibsonton, Florida.Photo:Google Maps Google Maps Thieves in Florida pulled off a massive heist using tractor trailers at an alcohol distributor, making off with over $1.6 million worth of liquor, according toCNN,ABC 11andNBC 2. The search warrant, which targeted an Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max, stated that the thieves took 4,277 cases of liquor from the company, which distributes brands like Franzia Wines and Jose Cuervo, between 4:10 a....