A Georgia man was arrested in Florida on allegations he beat his girlfriend and punched and killed a man who attempted to intervene in the altercation. Jordan Talley, 27, was charged with manslaughter and domestic battery following a March 31 incident in downtown Orlando, arrest records show. Talley was captured on video at around 1:40 a.m. hitting a woman in …
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Knife-wielding Florida teen allegedly murders boy at sleepover, injures adult: 'Violent, premeditated attack'
A teenage boy is in custody after he stabbed another teen to death and wounded an adult during an ambush at a sleepover, the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office in Florida announced. The attack occurred at a home in Wildwood just after 10 p.m. on Saturday. According to officials, deputies arrived at the home and saw that a 15-year-old boy and …
Read More »Ron DeSantis touts Florida's education system, slams 'woke' academia in Sarasota address
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis addressed an audience at Sarasota’s New College of Florida Saturday in a speech that touted the state’s educational accomplishments and reforms and bashed the “woke” stranglehold on academia. “In the last 5½ years, there’s been no state that has done more to reform and improve education. … We took on school choice. We made sure schools …
Read More »Coast Guard rescues 8 people, including child, after boat capsizes 36 miles west of Florida coastline
A U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) aircrew came to the rescue of seven adults and one child, after their boat capsized 36 miles west off of the Boca Grande, Florida, coastline on Saturday. Officials with the U.S. Coast Guard Southeast said in a press release that the boaters reported that their 28-foot boat capsized and was sinking off the coast of …
Read More »Florida helicopter pilot charged with harassing protected birds after landing on shorebird nesting site
A helicopter pilot in Florida was charged this week by the state’s Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) after he allegedly landed on a closed shorebird nesting site. Ernesto Cordero was charged with harassing the nesting birds, a misdemeanor, for allegedly harming the eggs of a protected species when he landed at Egmont Key State Park, scattering hundreds of shorebirds …
Read More »Florida columnist retires after claiming state has become ‘gay-bashing authoritarian dystopia’
A prominent columnist at the South Florida Sun Sentinel announced his retirement in a column Friday, stating that his decision was motivated by the state becoming a “gay-bashing authoritarian dystopia.” Columnist Fred Grimm said goodbye to his South Florida audience in the piece, recounting his 56-year-long journalism career and lamenting how most people in the state are now supportive MAGA …
Read More »Teen girl dies after being pulled from Discovery Cove theme park pool, police say
A 13-year-old is dead after being found unresponsive in a pool at the Discovery Cove theme park in Orlando, Florida on Tuesday, police said. Anna Beaumont, 13, was pronounced dead at the hospital on Wednesday. The Orange County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that deputies were called on Tuesday at 11:30 a.m. to the popular all-inclusive vacation spot after reports of an …
Read More »Biden's move to lift financial restrictions on notorious dictatorship triggers backlash
Cuban American lawmakers lambasted the Biden administration after the U.S. Treasury announced it would be lifting some financial restrictions on Cuba. Treasury officials said the adjustments are aimed at helping independent businesses and supporting “internet-based services to promote internet freedom in Cuba, support independent Cuban private-sector entrepreneurs, and expand access to certain financial services” for Cubans, who have been under …
Read More »Florida sheriff’s deputy who fatally shot Black airman at home is fired, shooting 'not objectively reasonable'
A Florida sheriff’s deputy who shot and killed an Air Force service member in his home earlier this month has been fired. The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office said Deputy Eddie Duran was terminated after an administrative investigation found his use of deadly force was “not objectively reasonable” in the death of Roger Fortson, a news release states. “The objective facts …
Read More »Brazilian fugitive involved in massacre of 11 people lied on US asylum application: prosecutors
A former military police officer convicted in Brazil of multiple murders for his part in a 2015 massacre was indicted in Boston Wednesday for allegedly using a fraudulently obtained visa to enter the U.S. and then lying on his asylum application, the U.S. Attorney’s Office District of Massachusetts announced. Antonio Jose De Abreu Vidal Filho, 30, never disclosed to immigration …
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