Tag: Florida
Fla. teen arrested 2 days after Parkland shooting for threatening to shoot up Broward Co. schools
Only two days after the school shooting in Parkland where 17 died and 14 more suffered serious injuries, a teenager from Lauderhill, Florida, posted a message on social media, “threatening […]
School shooter had AR-15, smoke bombs, multiple magazines and was wearing a gas mask
(Updated) On February 14 at approximately 2:40 p.m., Nikolas Cruz, a 19-year-old disgruntled ex-student with a troubled past, walked into the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. He was […]
Six men including a judge, an actor and a pastor arrested in prostitution sting
The Naples, Florida, Police Department reports that six individuals including a Lee County Circuit Judge, a Broadway actor and a pastor from Fort Meyers were among those arrested in a […]
Heroic seven-year-old Florida girl saves family from house fire
Tracy Durant, a seven-year-old girl from Escambia County in Florida, is being hailed as a hero for saving her family from a house fire that broke out around 10:30 a.m. […]
Florida Mayor Joy Cooper arrested on felony corruption charges following FBI sting
The Mayor of Hallandale Beach, Florida, has been arrested and is now facing multiple felony corruption charges. Mayor Joy Cooper, 57, turned herself in to police on January 25 following […]
U.S. flu outbreak claims the life of another child, 12-year-old Dylan Winnick
The latest fatality attributed to the 2018 flu season is 12-year-old Dylan Winnick from Coral Springs, Florida. Dylan died suddenly and unexpectedly on Tuesday. The normally healthy boy came down […]
Tucson cops nab 80-year-old armed bank robber
After police in Tucson, Arizona, released surveillance images of a male suspect they say held up the Pyramid Credit Union in northwest Tucson at gunpoint, a tip came in from […]
Meth-head husband booby-traps home to electrocute pregnant wife
In what one cop described as “one of the most bizarre domestic violence cases I have seen in my career,” a Florida fugitive was captured in Knoxville, Tennessee, and charged […]
Woman charged with shooting and killing pit bull pup for chewing up her things
Sheriff’s deputies in Cantonment, Florida, received a concerned telephone call from a trailer park resident in the 2000 block of Ryale Road with the caller saying that she heard two […]
Young Maryland couple among five dead in fiery Florida plane crash
The sheriff in Bartow, Florida, said that no-one should have been trying to take off from the Bartow Municipal Airport in Bartow on Christmas Eve as the airport was totally […]
