By Mark Sherman and Matthew BarakatThe Associated Press

WASHINGTON — With crowds of admirers swell-ing outside, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was remembered Wednesday at the court by grieving family, colleagues and friends as a prophet for justice who persevered against long odds to become an American icon.

The court’s eight justices, masked along with everyone else because of the corona-virus pandemic, gathered for the first time in more than six months for the ceremony to mark Ginsburg’s death from cancer last week at age 87

Ginsburg remembered as prophet for justice

By Dylan Lovan and Piper Hudspeth BlackburnThe Associated Press/Report for America

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A Kentucky grand jury brought no charges against Louisville police for the killing of

Breonna Taylor during a d r u g r a i d gone wrong, with prosecu-t o r s s a y i n g Wednesday that two offi-

cers who fired their weapons at the Black woman were jus-tified in using force to protect themselves.

The only charges brought

by the grand j u r y w e r e three counts o f w a n t o n endangerment against fired Officer Brett Hankison for

shooting into Taylor’s neigh-bors’ homes during the raid on the night of March 13. The FBI

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By Jane MusgravePalm Beach Post USA TODAY NETWORK

After a four-day lull, COVID-19 deaths soared in Florida on Wednesday with 203 fatalities reported across the state, including a

near-record 22 in Palm Beach County, according to the daily report by health officials.

The number of deaths r e p o r t e d i n t h e c o u n t y W e d n e s d a y i s t h e

second-highest daily increase since the pandemic began in March. The record came on Aug. 7, when 27 fatalities were reported. The county has tal-lied more than 20 deaths in a single day just four times since March.

The number of deaths statewide is more than were reported in the past four days combined, and the most logged since Sept. 10, when

213 people were reported dead, according to the Florida Department of Health.

It marks just the fourth time since Aug. 18 that more than 200 deaths have been reported statewide in one day.

However, the reporting of deaths is often delayed by two weeks or more. It is unlikely that many of the deaths

State, PB County deaths soarDaily increase second-highest since pandemic began in March

Coronavirus update

County: 45,743 cases, 1,329 deaths Florida: 690,499 cases, 13,782 deaths U.S.: 6,933,872 cases, 201,669 deaths Global: 31,746,219 cases, 973,519 deaths Sources: Florida Department of Health, Johns Hopkins University

By Sonja IsgerPalm Beach Post USA TODAY NETWORK

In a rush to publish an online dashboard that noted every case of COVID-19 within the Palm Beach County School District on the first day of in-person learning, the information posted was wrong, district officials said Wednesday.

Eight of the 19 posi-tive cases reported among employees were miscounts.

They involved conflicting tests, unconfirmed tests, or people who were no longer sick or not on property when campuses opened Sept. 16, the district’s risk and benefits manager, Don Noel, said after the correc-tion to the dashboard was made.

Noel chalked it up to leaving the task of pop-ulating the dashboard to one employee who, given the assignment only hours earlier, basi-cally had to sort through piles of emails to the risk

and benefits department regarding COVID-19 cases.

The department is track-ing cases and suspected cases in internal spread-sheets, but the information is vast, including elements that fall under privacy laws or involve employees who work far from students repairing engines or doing carpentry, Nowel said.

“I wish this never hap-pened, but we want people to know. We’re all trying to be transparent. It was just human error. It’s not going to happen going forward,” Noel said, describing a new protocol that verifies test results, then double-checks them with the principal on the relevant campus.

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School district’s COVID dashboard wrong on Day 1

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Marchers are detained Wednesday in Louisville, Ky., following a grand jury’s indictment of one officer on criminal charges six months after Breonna Taylor was fatally shot by police. [JOHN MINCHILLO, AP]

By Christine StapletonPalm Beach Post USA TODAY NETWORK

P r e s i d e n t D o n a l d Trump is expected to fly from a campaign rally in Jacksonville Thursday evening to Miami for an overnight visit to court the Latino vote while fueling speculation he may announce Cuban-American Judge Barbara Lagoa as his choice to replace U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Trump is scheduled to appear at a rally in Jacksonville at 7 p.m. Thursday and his campaign announced Wednesday he plans to hold a Latino-focused roundtable in

Miami on Friday.Lagoa, the daughter of

Cuban exiles who has risen quickly as a lawyer and judge, is on Trump’s short list to replace Ginsburg. Her selection could ben-efit Trump among South Florida's Latino voters in the Nov. 3 election, when Florida could be the swing state that decides the election.

Within days of Ginsburg's death on Sept. 18, Trump announced he would nom-inate a woman to replace Ginsburg.Trump and Biden are virtually tied in Florida,

Trump plans to court Latino voters in MiamiPresident may meet with Supreme Court justice candidate

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The flag-draped casket of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg arrives at the Supreme Court in Washington on Wednesday. Ginsburg, 87, died of cancer on Sept. 18. [J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS]

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