A 7-year-old boy in Florida was escorted from school and taken for a psychiatric evaluation in handcuffs by police after he allegedly hit his teacher. The boy’s mother, Mercy Alvarez, filmed her son being led by a police officer in handcuffs to Nicklaus Children’s Hospital in Miami on Thursday, Jan. 25. According to the Miami Herald, […]

John Ruel was walking his dog in East Lake Woodlands in Oldsmar, Florida, when he saw an alligator stuck in a storm drain. He then filmed as a trapper pulled the gator out. The trapper first taped up the gator’s mouth and then pulled it out by its tail through an adjacent manhole. The alligator was […]

The mother of a 14-year-old boy, who is accused of carjacking an 81-year-old woman outside a Florida Walmart, called 911 after seeing video footage of him on TV and turned her son over to the police. According to an arrest report obtained by Local10 news, Ramona Gorden surrendered her son to Lauderdale Lakes police after the […]

A mother from Melbourne Beach, Florida, has been arrested after her 10-month-old son drowned in a bathtub while she was sleeping. Rosa Regina Feeney is facing charges of aggravated manslaughter of a child and child neglect, according to 9 ABC. She is currently being held in the Brevard County Jail on a $60,000 bail. The incident […]

Three suspects are in custody for the kidnapping and murder of a Florida woman in what authorities say was a murder-for-hire orchestrated by a jilted lover. But the scheme missed its mark, Osceola County Sheriff Russ Gibson told WFTV, as a 42-year-old Osceola County woman, with no apparent relationship to the perpetrators, was mistaken for […]

It was the second time since October that the same toddler ended up in a hospital for overdosing on prescription medication. First responders rushed to a North Palm Beach, Florida, home on Thursday, Jan. 12, after a woman called 911 saying a 19-month-old swallowed two painkillers and seemed to be overdosing. Crews revived the baby […]

A police department in Florida has released dramatic footage of one of its officers getting dragged by a fleeing car, then tumbling to the ground after he responded to an emergency call reporting that two people were unconscious in a car. Around 8:30 a.m. on Dec. 19, someone alerted security in the Century Village complex […]

A man who was rescued from the middle of a lake in Orlando, Florida, on Dec. 15 told police that he had taken the drug MDMA – also commonly known as ecstasy or “Molly” – before his escapade. Keith Thurston, 36, also told police that he had gone to commune with the swans because the swans […]

Florida police have now released a dramatic 911 phone call and officer body camera footage that captures some of the last minutes of Brian Disario’s life. Disario shot family friend David James Armstrong while the two men were at Disario’s mother’s home in Port Richey on Oct 12. Disario’s mother, whose name has not yet […]

By Theodoros Karasavvas, Ancient Origins While Hurricane Irma was merciless with many parts of Florida, it may have accidentally unearthed a “hidden treasure,” a wooden Native American canoe that could be hundreds of years old. Randy Lathrop, a decorated art photographer, was on a bike ride to witness with his own eyes the damage that Irma […]

The Florida nursing home where eight patients died in the heat after Hurricane Irma is trading blame with the Florida governor’s office over who bears responsibility for the deaths. There are contradictions between the accounts each side is giving over when the facility reported problems with its air conditioning units and unanswered questions about what […]

Internet rumors turned into full-blown fake news after electric companies based a media release and Facebook post on made-up stories, only to be debunked by local police. Both SECO Energy and TECO Energy published statements warning customers of an alarming scam. “There are reports that people dressed to look like utility workers have been knocking on […]

                             

Hurricane Irma looks set to dodge one of the few landmasses big enough to slow it down as it makes it’s way toward Florida for this weekend. While that may come as a small gift to the people who live on Hispaniola, the island home to the nations of Haiti and Dominican Republic, it leaves […]

Hurricane Irma has maintained its category 5 status in the latest update from the National Hurricane Center. Currently the strongest hurricane recorded outside the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico, Irma could be catastrophic for Florida if it doesn’t wane, the Washington Post reported. The storm won’t hit Florida until the weekend, according to current predictions, but […]

In Hungary, it is a common tradition to clean graveyards for “Day of the Dead.” However, in the United States, that once-a-year consideration for those who are no longer with us may be much more than many of us give. One man, however, offers every Sunday to help clean the tombs of veterans to thank […]

If you and your family are heading to Disney World soon, first let me say, I am so excited for you!!!!  Okay, okay, deep breaths. Let’s try to stay cool here. There are some rules I’d like to make you aware of. These are unwritten rules, but if you don’t follow then strictly, you’ll turn […]

Dozens of false killer whales, which belong to the dolphin family, have been found dead off the coast of Florida.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla.—Florida Gov. Rick Scott wants the head of the state’s tourism marketing agency to step down after the agency refused to publicly disclose it paid rapper Pitbull $1 million to promote the state. Scott made the request Friday in a letter to Visit Florida’s board. The governor is also asking Visit Florida to begin […]

Voters in Florida have filed a lawsuit to try and initiate a recount of the state’s Nov. 8 presidential election results, following efforts made in other battleground states.  The lawsuit was officially filed in Leon Circuit Court, according to a Tallahassee Democrat report. The suit, filed by three voters, claims that Hillary Clinton won the […]