Florida

The University of Florida reversed course on a “tattle button” that allowed students to report complaints about professors who altered a class’ format from in-person to online, after pushback from students and faculty.  The controversy came after the school introduced the option on GatorSafe, a campus app, to report professors who made discretionary changes to course […]

A central Florida police officer was fired last week after an internal investigation into his social media activity revealed posts discussing Black Lives Matter protests, showing support for the U.S. Capitol riot and warning another Civil War was imminent. Andrew Johnson was fired from the Kissimmee Police Department on Jan. 14. He had been on probationary […]

Larry King‘s illustrious broadcasting career spanned more than six decades and virtually every media platform available to him. But he was hardly an overnight success.    Before making his name as a prime-time TV interviewer, 23-year-old Lawrence Zeiger got his start at a Miami Beach radio station in 1957. UNSPECIFIED – CIRCA 1987: Lary King Radio and television personality on the […]

A Florida teenager who authorities say killed his mom when he was 15 after an argument about his school grades was sentenced Friday to 45 years in prison. Gregory Ramos, now 17, reportedly pleaded guilty to first-degree murder last month in the strangling death of Gail Cleavenger, 46, in 2018. After he killed her, he buried her underneath […]

Authorities extradited a man to face charges of the attempted kidnapping and torture of a South Florida plastic surgeon with a blowtorch, according to reports. Sergei Nkorina, 55, arrived in Miami on Wednesday after flying in from Spain to face charges for the attempted kidnapping in January 2019. Authorities allege that Nkorina abducted the surgeon from the parking lot […]

A Florida man wanted for allegedly storming the US Capitol was arrested when he brainlessly returned to Washington, DC, for the presidential inauguration Wednesday, officials said. Samuel Camargo, 26 — who was allegedly captured in video footage trying to breach the building during the riot on Jan. 6 —  went back to his home in Broward County […]

Florida sheriffs released a video showing the moment a suspect drove an allegedly stolen car into a deputy as she tried to evade capture. The aerial footage shows the white Ford Taurus, which Manatee County authorities had been searching for after the driver fled a crash earlier in the day. As one deputy parked their […]

The Florida restaurant manager who authorities say saved an 11-year-old boy from an abusive home with a secret note said “I did what I had to do – he is the hero.” Flaviane Carvalho, 45, has been widely praised for her actions on New Year’s Day when a family of four — two adults and […]

Rebekah Jones, the former Florida Department of Health data analyst who helped build the state’s coronavirus case tracker — only to be fired last year for alleged insubordination — said she tested positive for the virus after turning herself in to authorities over the weekend.  Rebekah Jones surrendered to the Leon County detention facility on Sunday after law enforcement officials issued a […]

A self-described “hardcore leftist” was arrested Friday for allegedly issuing a call to arms online to recruit like-minded individuals to join him in violently confronting pro-Trump supporters expected to gather at the Florida state Capitol in Tallahassee on Sunday, just days before the presidential inauguration. Daniel Alan Baker – an alleged Antifa supporter who participated in […]