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The number of teenage drivers involved in fatal car crashes has dropped dramatically in the past decade. But in those wrecks, male drivers still outnumber females by more than 2 to 1. For Basil Rynestead of Fauquier County, Va., it's a battle against peer pressure and inexperience to stay safe on the road.

The number of teenage drivers involved in fatal car crashes has dropped dramatically in the past decade. But in those wrecks, male drivers still outnumber females by more than 2 to 1. For Basil Rynestead of Fauquier County, Va., it's a battle against peer pressure and inexperience to stay safe on the road.

The vice president is hitting the road to talk about reproductive freedom, an issue Democrats want to highlight in the 2024 election. Her first stop marks the 51st anniversary of Roe v Wade.

Multiple tornadoes were reported in Nebraska but the most destructive storm moved from a largely rural area into suburbs northwest of Omaha. Hundreds of homes and other structures have been damaged.

The state has appealed a Leon County circuit judge’s decision requiring changes to a “financial impact statement” that will appear on the November ballot with a proposed constitutional amendment aimed at ensuring abortion rights.After announcing his decision during a hearing last week, Circuit Judge John Cooper on Monday issued a written ruling that said outdated information in the financial impact statement “renders it inaccurate, ambiguous, misleading, unclear and confusing.”

Disco got its start during the early 1970s in clubs like the Ginza and La Martinique in midtown Manhattan. Record companies finally began giving it airtime, with hits cracking the Billboard top 10 in 1976. But it wasn’t until the release of Saturday Night Fever in December of 1977 that the disco phenomenon exploded across the county. You can relive that experience at The Belle Theatre in Cape Coral, where the stage version of the iconic movie is being performed through October 13.

Jimmy "Jay" Lee's body has never been found, but a judge declared him dead. Jurors said they were unable to reach a verdict after over nine and a half hours of deliberation.

Innocent Lives Foundation, ILF, recently held a fundraiser in Punta Gorda. The non-profit group hires experts to scour the internet, looking for child predators.

A survey of 2,651 Floridians via an online poll found several factors play important roles in whether they obey irrigation rules.The survey found about 40% of the state's residents don't know they must follow irrigation rules, like those recently put in place in Cape Coral due to a depleted aquifer.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly discusses a culture of police misconduct and a "code of silence" within the Chicago Police Department with Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve, professor of sociology and criminal justice at the University of Delaware.