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LAKELAND, Fla. (WFOR) -- There were 17 Disney World and Universal Studios employees among 281 suspects arrested during a human trafficking and child sexual predators enforcement operation, the Polk County Sheriff's Office said Friday. Sheriff Grady Judd said in a press conference Friday that the joint operation, which took place over seven days, focused on nabbing predators who prey upon and travel to meet children for unlawful sexual activity and human trafficking. He said 31 of the suspects traveled to the county to attempt to have sex with a child. Judd said during the press conference that 13 of the...

The harrowing final moments inside the Learjet 60 private jet that crashed to the ground in Florida on Sunday have been revealed in newly released cockpit audio. The plane was carrying nine people when it plummeted out of the sky in poor weather conditions, just eight miles from Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, erupting into a colossal fire on impact near West Palm Beach. Air traffic control audio revealed the female pilot relaying pivotal information to an operator just seconds before it abruptly plunged thousands of feet in a minute. The controllers are describing 'moderate turbulence' before the pilot's tone swiftly...

Chilling audio captured the moments before a Learjet crashed into a huge fireball in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Sunday. A Learjet that departed Austin, Texas, en route to the Bahamas plunged at a high rate of speed and nosedived into a mobile home part nine miles from Mar-a-Lago. The doomed plane erupted into a giant fireball and left a massive crater in the road. All nine people aboard the doomed aircraft are dead. The victims have not been identified. Here is the Learjet crashing on Palm Beach. Frame by frame https://t.co/nCoRIIDXGP — Jon Nicosia (@NewsPolitics) November 1, 2026 The...

FYI go find the videos, crazy stuff, the conspiracy theorys are on it.... WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A business jet carrying nine people nose-dived into a South Florida neighborhood Sunday and erupted into a giant fireball that appeared to just miss homes before crashing near a busy roadway. All passengers on board were killed, U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy sai

“A private jet carrying nine people has crashed just eight miles from Mar-a-Lago in Florida, erupting into a colossal fire and sending a boom echoing for miles. The FAA confirmed that a $2 million Learjet 60 plummeted from the air, falling 32,000ft in a minute, causing a roaring amber blaze and plumes of smoke to billow from the scorched roadside in Greenacres, Palm Beach County. A large crater was seen as a result of the impact with debris scattered around it. Flight data showed that the flight was traveling from Austin, Texas, to North Eleuthera in the Bahamas before its...

A $2 million private jet crashed into a South Florida mobile home park — apparently demolishing at least one trailer in a massive fireball. Authorities say there are “multiple fatalities,” but it’s not clear yet how many people were on board the chartered plane, or whether anyone on the ground was killed in injured. The plane, which had departed Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in Texas, took a sharp right turn before nosediving from 8,000 feet into the ground, BocaNewsNow reported. The plane, believed to be a Learjet 60 worth $2 million, clipped a tree and brought down power lines in a...

Irene Miller, 50, of Kissimmee, was arrested the moment she got off her flight from Las Vegas on Friday, Oct. 23. Deputies say her four children had been home alone. The case began on Wednesday, Oct. 21. Just after 8:30 p.m., a child called 911 from a Kissimmee home. Her 9-year-old brother had been hit on the head by a falling dumbbell. Deputies raced to the house and found no adults inside. Four children, ages 14, 12, 11 and 9, were alone. Fire Rescue took the injured boy to Celebration Hospital, where he was treated and released. Deputies reached the...

It doesn't get much more Polk County than this... 3:00 Video at link...............

King Tides are a seasonal recurrence. Also seasonal in recent years are the attempts to explain the flooding caused by those tides as being due to rising sea levels. Among the media outlets at the forefront this year with the rising sea levels shtick is USA Today as you can see in this Monday story by their Climate & Environment correspondent Dinah Voyles Pulver, "Record high tides slam US coasts. Here’s what’s driving them."Most of what Pulver says is "driving" the high tides makes sense:

CLEARWATER, Fla. – A woman wearing a full black burqa approached the podium during public comment at a Pinellas County Board of County Commissioners meeting Tuesday and played a recording of the Islamic call to prayer without first making a statement, prompting board Chairman Dave Eggers to try to stop the recording and have her removed from the podium. As the recording played, a board member reminded the woman that public comment was intended for members of the public to address commissioners, not to play recordings.

David Jolly, a former Republican congressman who is now running as a Democrat against U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds to replace Ron DeSantis as Florida governor, is raising eyebrows in the Sunshine State with his suggestion that boys have a constitutional right to play on girls’ sports teams. His comments came during the “To the Contrary” podcast Charlie Sykes last year, and were unearthed Wednesday by Libs of TikTok. Florida Gov candidate David Jolly (D) suggests boys have a constitutional right to play on girl’s sports teams: “Their constitutional rights… It’s pretty disgusting what we’ve seen from Republicans on this..” “Be...

The defeated presidential candidate faces criminal investigations in his home country, which had canceled his passports SÃO PAULO—Just days after losing Brazil’s presidential election, Flávio Bolsonaro arrived in Miami Wednesday after fleeing his home country, where he faces mounting legal pressure from a Supreme Court that has already sent his father to prison.The 45-year-old senator, son of former right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro, crossed into Argentina late Tuesday before boarding a private jet that took his family to the U.S. via Ecuador, defying a Supreme Court order barring him from leaving Brazil.Bolsonaro faces criminal investigations into alleged financial crimes, which he...

A Florida court threw out the case against former Dominion employee Eric Coomer on Tuesday. Eric Coomer filed this defamation action on June 24, 2022, in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado. The case was transferred to a Florida Court in January 2024. From today's decision: Byrne and Coomer have each filed motions for summary judgment, and their papers cite both Colorado and Florida law. As it relates to Court’s determination of the cross-motions for summary judgment, the only relevant difference between the law of the two states is that under Colorado law, where the alleged...

American who lives and grew up in Los Angeles just took a 5 day trip Miami, Florida She says she can’t believe how clean it is there, how there are no homeless and how much less expensive it is “I didn't realize just how dirty and gross and expensive LA actually is just because I'm used to it. I live here, I live in it. I saw 2 unhoused people the entire time I was in Miami. The whole week I saw 2 unhoused people, and we went to a bunch of different parts in Miami. And the cost of...

Booster 22 fired up on Pad 2, and SpaceX wants to catch both halves of Starship on Flight 15. But to reach the tower, the ship has to fly home over land, something no Starship has ever done. Also: where Flight 16 really launches from, Ship 43 at Massey's, Starbase's 456-launch plan and the Louisiana spaceport, NASA's Artemis Acceleration briefing, and Blue Origin's New Glenn date. Booster 22 Just Fired! SpaceX Goes for a Double Catch | 23:36 What about it!? | 674K subscribers | 138,119 views | October 27, 2026

https://www.mlb.com/scores Is a cool website because I can't see the stats (balls and strikes) on my TV. The font is too small. The weird thing is the website is like 30 seconds faster than the TV. So it feels like I am predicting the future. lol

Florida Democrat Senate candidate Angie Nixon stunned viewers during a recent interview when she was asked a straightforward question about whether Cuba is a dictatorship. Somehow, she couldn't answer. Instead of offering a clear response, the challenger to Republican Sen. Ashley Moody responded with all the energy of Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. She of "I'm not a biologist" fame. "Do you consider that Cuba is a dictatorship?" she was asked in an interview with CBS News. "You know, that is what people have told me," she replied. "I have never been to Cuba, and so I will have...

WILDWOOD, Fla. — A 79-year-old man is accused of using a hammer to damage a doctor’s Tesla after becoming angry about two canceled surgeries, according to the Wildwood Police Department. Police arrested Glen Lee Ong of The Villages on charges of criminal mischief causing at least $1,000 in damage and wearing a mask while committing a felony. Officers responded Sept. 16 to Optimotion Orthopedics on East State Road 44 after employees heard two loud bangs outside the medical facility. Police said a video recorded by the Tesla showed a masked man leave a red pickup truck and walk toward the...

A historic ocean liner will become the world’s largest artificial reef after it’s sunk off Florida’s Gulf Coast early next year.Okaloosa County officials announced Tuesday that they expect to sink the SS United States in early 2026 about 22 nautical miles (41 kilometers) southwest of Destin and 32 nautical miles (59 kilometers) southeast of Pensacola.The nearly 1,000-foot (305-meter) vessel, which shattered the trans-Atlantic speed record on its maiden voyage in 1952, has spent most of this year at the Port of Mobile in Alabama, being scoured to remove chemicals, wiring, plastic and glass.Regional PartnershipThe ship’s final location was selected as...

The second 65-foot funnel was removed last Friday from the historic ocean liner in Mobile, Alabama.The aft funnel aboard the SS United States was removed last Friday in Mobile, Alabama, as another major step in preparing the vessel to become the world’s largest artificial reef, according to Okaloosa County.• The towering funnels, each standing 65 feet tall and as tall as a six-story building, were removed last week. The remaining propeller was also removed last Friday and loaded on the same barge as the aft funnel. These items are among many others being preserved to be incorporated in the SS...