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The highest wage floor will be set at $17.13 an hour in Washington state, the first state with a minimum wage over $17.

With the new increases, more than half of states for the first time will have minimum wages higher than the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour.

A routine traffic stop in Indiana turned into a multimillion-dollar drug bust.

State troopers arrested two men after discovering over 300 pounds of cocaine hidden inside the semi-truck's sleeper berth.

Police say the truck was drifting alongside an interstate in Putnam County when a canine search uncovered the drugs.

The haul was valued at roughly $7 million.

Federal officials say both suspects entered the U.S.

illegally and were driving with California-issued commercial licenses.

Immigration detainers have been filed to keep the suspects in custody as the case moves forward.

More information has been released about the hammer-wielding vandal who broke into Vice President Vance's Ohio home last week.

26-year-old William DeFore, the son of a prominent Cincinnati physician, appears to have a history of serious mental health issues.

In 2024, he was sentenced to two years of mandatory mental health treatment after vandalizing a local business.

He was also charged with trespassing at a health care facility in 2023, but was declared mentally incompetent by a judge, so the case was thrown out.

In recent weeks, DeFore appears to have been going by the name Julia.

Over a dozen sanctioned oil tankers left port from Venezuela over the weekend in what appears to be an attempt to evade the U.S.

blockade.

At least 16 tankers disguised or hid their locations after leaving Venezuelan ports in the wake of the capture of Maduro.

Four of the fleeing tankers appeared to leave on Saturday, shortly after Maduro's extradition.

Some of the tankers have used the tactic called spoofing, which means they use fake ship names and misrepresent their positions.

Most of the supertankers that left port typically transport crude oil