Hurricane Ian death toll likely ‘in the hundreds:’ said the Lee County sheriff. ‘ There are thousands of people that are waiting to be rescued,’ says sheriff of one of the hardest-hit areas At least MORE
The National Weather Service has issued a tornado watch for four counties, including Sarasota and Manatee. This watch is in effect until 5 p.m. Hurricane Ian has strengthened overnight and is now a Category 4 MORE
Early Tuesday, Ian became a major hurricane — meaning Category 3 or stronger, with winds of at least 111 miles per hour. It is the ninth named storm of the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season. On MORE
Unpredictable Hurricane Ian strengthened overnight as it churned in the Caribbean, prompting urgent preparations in Florida, where the storm could deliver impacts, including tornadoes, starting Tuesday before possibly arriving as a major hurricane with powerful winds and dangerous storm MORE
Former Priest Involved In Theft LE††UCE PREY “You’re talking about a five-year period time. Where people have given their hard-earned money every week, for five years from 2015-2020 to the tune of about $1.5 million,” MORE
Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar said in a news release Monday that his office is investigating whether the migrants were the victims of a crime. “The Bexar County Sheriff’s Office has opened an investigation into MORE
A release from the Tampa Police Department said officers responded to a home in Sulpher Springs just after 1 p.m. on Saturday after the caller said a 5-month-old baby was shot in the hip. Officers MORE
Ashley Biden stored the diary, tax records, a digital device with family photos and a cellphone in September 2020 in a Delray Beach, Florida, home where one of the defendants was living at the time, MORE
Jared Smith, who was appointed to Florida’s 13th Circuit Court by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) in 2019, narrowly lost his nonpartisan primary against attorney Nancy Jacobs. Smith had ruled in January that the 17-year-old, who MORE
Primary season continued Tuesday with races in New York, Florida and Oklahoma; here are the results: New York: This is a big one. NY held a special election in New York’s 19th Congressional District to fill the seat of Democratic Rep. MORE
Judge Jason Nimeth will preside in a hearing set for 9:30 a.m. Nov. 1 on Zoom in the case of Wayne and Bonnie Anderson who have a little white cross on display at their home MORE
Hundreds of dictionaries earmarked for donation from a Venice Rotary Club sit collecting dust, precluded from being given to Sarasota County students. Even dictionaries aren’t safe from the Sarasota Schools book freeze. Ahead of the MORE
Tallahassee U.S. District Judge Mark Walker just declared parts of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ backed Stop WOKE Act unconstitutional. In a 44-page ruling Judge Walker stated “the act violates the First Amendment and is impermissibly vague. MORE
Journalists hoping to cover a Republican rally featuring Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Senate candidate J.D. Vance in Ohio will have to agree to give organizers access to any footage they take, and could face MORE
A panel of Florida judges ruled Monday that a parentless 16-year-old failed to prove she’s mature enough to get an abortion—leaving her to give birth and, potentially, raise a child instead. The anonymous 16-year-old, who MORE
In the midst of a national teacher shortage and a day before the start of the new school year, special education teacher, Michael James, resigned. He claimed in a letter to both Gov. DeSatan and the MORE
Florida’s Fascist governor, Ron DeSantis, held a bigly press conference Thursday morning to announce he suspended State Attorney Andrew Warren (D) for not enforcing the state’s fascist prohibitions on sex changes for minors and abortion MORE
LE††UCE PREY Teachers alarmed by state’s infusing religion, downplaying race in civics training. Included in the training is the statement that it is a “misconception” that “the Founders desired strict separation of church and state.” MORE
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is now allowing healthcare providers — including pediatricians and children’s hospitals — to order COVID-19 vaccines from a federal program for children between six months and 5 years old, a reversal MORE
Homeowners in the “free” state of Florida are signing up for Citizens Property Insurance in record numbers as the property insurance industry is in free fall just as hurricane season begins. Canceled policies from suddenly insolvent MORE
Marie Ayala and Reggie Mabry in Happier Times A Well Regulated Militia DATELINE: ORLANDO, Fla. — Sheriff Mina said the boy’s 26-year-old father, Reggie Mabry, was found wounded about noon May 26, after deputies went MORE
During his graduation ceremony on Sunday, Zander Moricz spoke about his activism as the first openly gay class president at Pine View School in Osprey, Florida, without once saying he was gay. Instead, Zander used MORE
DATELINE: STUART FLORIDA —The Martin County School District is investigating after a photo showing six middle school students spelling out a racial slur was posted on social media. Tuesday afternoon, district officials confirmed the photo MORE
Attorneys representing Jean Barretto, 26, a man who suffered severe burns over 75% of his body, want the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to take over an investigation of an incident that happened in late MORE
MAY 10–Angered that a neighbor’s chicken had been “pooping on the back patio,” a Florida Woman allegedly retrieved “a bucket of pee from her bathroom” and proceeded to douse the bird’s owner with the liquid, MORE