Joel Greenberg, former Seminole County tax collector and Matt Gaetz wingman, pleaded guilty last year to six federal charges including child sex trafficking and aggravated identity theft. As part of a plea deal, Greenberg agreed MORE
THE THIN BLUE LINE “Sgt. Harrison and Deputy Gohde were both shown that James did not have a weapon. At that point James should have been free to leave,” a Columbia County Sheriff’s Office internal MORE
Jim Hodges shows Deputy Jayme Lee Gohde his collapsible walking stick. THE THIN BLUE LINE Did I mention Jim Hodges was walking home from jury duty? Lake City — The morning of Halloween, Columbia County deputies MORE
A rowdy crowd in Florida watched the only debate between Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Democratic challenger Charlie Crist. It was filled with culture war talking points and facial twitches from one of those candidates, MORE
A Miami judge dismissed a case of voter fraud in the first of 19 cases heralded by Florida governor Ron DeSantis. DeSantis had held a press conference in August to announce the charges, touting a MORE
Newly released footage from police body-worn cameras shows the confusion of Hillsborough County, Florida, residents as they were arrested on August 18 for voter fraud as part of Governor Ron DeSantis’s Office of Election Crimes MORE
Emmanuel the emu became famous when his owner’s TikTok videos went viral showing the 120-pound bird attacking her camera while she filmed educational videos. Hobby farmer Taylor Blake announced on Saturday that Knuckle Bump Farms MORE
New research strongly suggests that many more of those “excess deaths” in Ohio and Florida were among people with Republican voter registrations. It’s perhaps unsurprising that Republicans were more reluctant to get vaccinated against the MORE
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