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Florida school bus engulfed in flames.Photo: Palm Bay Fire Rescue Facebook As soon as she saw smoke, one Florida bus driver quickly sprang to action, helping to save the lives of all 40 children on board. Immediately, she pulled over to start evacuating all of the kids, who ranged from being kindergarten to sixth grade students, the outlet reported. “This afternoon we had an electrical issue on one of our school buses that resulted in the bus having to pull over and evacuate,” the charter school wrote in a statement on social media....

Miya Marcano.Photo: Orange County Sheriff’s Office Orange County Sheriff John Mina said Armando Manuel Caballero, 27, had expressed a romantic interest in 19-year-old Miya Marcano before she vanished, but he was repeatedly rebuffed. “I think that it is a situation where someone had developed a romantic interest,” Mina said at a press conference Monday. “Obviously, Miya wasn’t interested. We are still trying to investigate all the circumstances behind this and what exactly happened regarding her disappearance....

Crime Scene.Photo: Scott Olson/Getty The report alleges that 27-year-old Alexandra Cupolo confessed to murdering her mother, Jacqueline Cupolo, and fiancé, emergency room physician Andrew Sturm. On Tuesday, Palm Beach Gardens police officers conducted a welfare check on Sturm at his Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., home after he failed to show up for work at JFK North Hospital, per the report. Officers made contact with a neighbor who told them he had not seen Sturm that day, but that he had heard gunshots around 3:30 a....

Photo: Cindy Ord/Getty Florence Pughsays she went to dark places while filming her 2019 horror filmMidsommar. As Pugh, 27, appeared on theOff Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acasterpodcast Tuesday, the Academy Award-nominated actress recalled the intense filming process on director Ari Aster’s daylight-set nightmare, in which she plays a woman named Dani who attends a midsummer festival in rural Sweden in the aftermath of her family’s tragic deaths....

Photo: Aaron Davis “I just felt incredibly guilty sitting down in Tampa, Florida, in the sunshine watching the rest of the country suffer,” Davis, 45, tells PEOPLE. “I’ve weathered many storms in my life in Florida, the hurricane capital of the world.” During the last Florida hurricane, he bought and delivered generators to people in need. “I just try to step up and do what I can,” he says....

Photo: Courtesy Coast Guard(2) It has been nine months sincePerry Cohen and Austin Stephanos, both, 14, set out from Florida’s Jupiter Inlet on a boating excursion and never returned. The months following the boys’ July disappearance have seen intense searches, haunting discoveries, legal battles and two families’ efforts to move forward. Here is everything we know about the situation involving the still-missing Tequesta teenagers: The Tragic Day Perry and Austin, longtime friends from South Florida, set out on their last boating trip on July 24....

Photo: Getty Thoughdaily COVID-19 cases are still at dangerously high levelsin the U.S., flu infections are “unusually low” this season, the Centers for Disease Control said. Intheir weekly flu report, the CDC noted that “flu activity is unusually low at this time,” though they noted that it “may increase in the coming months.” That analysis is “the CDC being modest,“Dr. William Schaffner, professor of infectious diseases at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine,toldToday, with cases “at record-setting lows....

Photo: Kevin Mazur/Getty Images Foo Fightersare back. The rockers announced on Wednesday thattheir 11th album, titledBut Here We Are, will be released in June, marking their first record since thedeath of drummer Taylor Hawkinslast year. The band also released the album’s first single “Rescued,” though it remains unclear who played drums on the track. The album cover is almost entirely white, and features the title written at the bottom in light gray....

Rutgers football.Photo: Scott Taetsch/Getty ImagesAhead of college football season, one athlete has publicly cut ties with Rutgers University due to the school’s requirement that members of the student body receive the COVID-19 vaccine.On Tuesday, defensive back Peyton Powelltweetedabout his plan to leave the New Jersey university, writing that Rutgers “made the COVID vaccine mandatory to attend school and play football, therefore I have no other choice but to enter my name into the transfer portal....

If you’re a fan ofAre You the One?, you definitely remember Alexis Eddy.The hard-partying West Virginia native was a contestant on season 6 of the hit reality dating competition show, which aired in 2017. She made waves in the house for her wild personality and backstory — she revealed on-camera that her cousin was a convicted murderer — but in recent months, she’s turned over a new leaf, celebrating her sobriety journey on Instagram and Twitter....

Photo: Todd Wiillamson/Invision/AP/Shutterstock Brent Renaud, an award-winning American journalist and formerNew York Timescontributor, has reportedly been killed in Ukraine. Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser to Ukraine’s interior minister, confirmed Renaud’s deathin a statement toTimes. Gerashchenko said Renaud “paid with his life for attempting to expose the insidiousness, cruelty, and ruthlessness of the aggressor.” “Early reports that he worked for theTimescirculated because he was wearing aTimespress badge that had been issued for an assignment many years ago,” the statement read....

Photo: Brian Stukes/Getty New ownersare on the way for the Washington Commanders, and former players like Chris Samuels are “excited” — especially about part-owner Earvin “Magic” Johnson. Speaking with PEOPLE at the Roll with the Punches Foundation’s “It’s Okay Knot To Be Okay” gala, Samuels says that he looks up to Johnson, the NBA legend and five-time champion. “I’m excited about that one now. He’s big time and he’s such a role model,” Samuels says of Johnson, who will be a part-owner behind principal owner Josh Harris, who also owns the Philadelphia 76ers and the New Jersey Devils....

Former Miss Universe Chelsi Smith passed away this weekend after suffering from liver cancer for just over a year. She was 45.The Texas native was best known for capturing the title of Miss Texas in 1995 and going on to winMiss USAand Miss Universe just months later. In doing so, Smith became the first and only woman from Texas to win both pageants, as well as the first American woman in 15 years to claim the Miss Universe title....