Pharmaceutical giant Merck is buying Verona Pharma, a company that concentrates its efforts on respiratory diseases, in an approximately $10 billion deal.

Shares of Merck are sliding in early trading after the drugmaker surprised Wall Street with a lower-than-expected 2025 sales forecast due partly to a pause in shipments of one of its top-selling products to China.

Rules for new Citizens Property Insurance policyholders is part of legislation that was passed during a special session.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - State Attorney Melissa Nelson intends to seek the death penalty for a Jacksonville man suspected of impregnating and murdering his teenage niece. At Thursdays arraignment, Johnathan Quiles entered not guilty pleas to two counts of first-degree murder in the death of Iyana Sawyer and her unborn child. He will be represented by attorney Robert Davis, who took over after the Public Defenders Office withdrew from the case. Authorities suspect Quiles shot Sawyer either Dec. 19 or Dec. 20, killing the teen and her unborn child. Quiles has been in jail since January after his arrest on a sexual battery charge.