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GOP leaders in the Florida state legislature reportedly helped revive and approve a controversial ban on transgender athletes participating in women's sports at the high school and college levels.Language was added as a late amendment in the state House to charter school legislation, the Herald Tribune reported Wednesday night.

A 23-year-old Florida man became the state's youngest Powerball jackpot winner ever, scoring a whopping $235.4 million prize. Thomas Yi, of Land O' Lakes, won the March 27 drawing and chose to receive his winnings in a one-time, lump-sum payment of $160,038,447.27, lottery officials said. “Even after matching all six numbers, I was in disbelief and took my ticket to a retailer to have it checked," Yi told the Florida Lottery. "The clerk at the counter instantly became excited and kept repeating that I had won the $235 million Powerball jackpot. I knew then that this would be life changing."...

A man in Hernando County, Florida is accused of stealing an ambulance, and getting it stuck in mud. We’re no experts in committing grand theft auto, but we’re pretty sure that could have gone way better. Trey Allen Cornwell, 29, was arrested Sunday, authorities say. According to deputies, the ambulance crew was inside the Oak Hill Hospital to drop off a patient. It was 12:27 p.m. Cornwell allegedly used this time to make off with the vehicle, which is owned by the Hernando County Fire & Emergency Services. Deputies say the defendant drove it to the Kass Circle neighborhood near...

The Smoking Gun reports an inebriated motorist assured Florida police that he was not drinking while driving, but only swigging from a bottle of Jim Beam bourbon when his vehicle paused at stop signs and traffic signals, according to a police report. Earle Gustavas Stevens, 69, was arrested two weeks ago for driving his Mercury Grand Marquis while under the influence. The Vero Beach resident was nabbed after a driver called 911 to report that Stevens’s car repeatedly tapped her bumper while they were in a McDonald’s drive-thru lane. When a sheriff’s deputy contacted Stevens, he reeked of alcohol,...

PANAMA CITY BEACH — Lexi Bradshaw remembers Timothy "Tim" Ackerman as a thrill-seeker who loved being a dad. Ackerman, a 31-year-old Panama City Beach resident and Bradshaw's ex-husband, died Sunday evening during a BASE jump from the 23rd floor of the Sunrise Beach Resort on Front Beach Road, according to the Panama City Beach Police Department. Authorities suspect his parachute malfunctioned as he fell. Timothy "Tim" Ackerman, a 31-year-old Panama City Beach resident who died in a BASE jumping accident Sunday evening, is seen with his 10-year-old daughter, Evie, and his 8-year-old son, Grayson. "He 100% would not have done...

According to the police report, Riddle had just exited the school with her own daughter after a meeting with the vice principal about her 8th grader’s “hostile outbursts” at another student. Rather than leaving the campus after the meeting, First Coast News says Riddle’s daughter went to the cafeteria to start a fight with the other child. Riddle’s daughter threw some punches on the victim before Riddle joined in, throwing punches herself. Riddle had a boxing glove on her hand when she arrived at the school and had told officials it was super glued to her wrist and unable to...

Assailant Attacked Law Enforcement with Plank and Fire Extinguisher in Effort To Halt Certification of Presidential Election WASHINGTON, D.C. – A Florida man appeared today in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida on charges stemming from his attack on law enforcement officers, as well as other crimes, during the riots at the U.S. Capitol on January 6 that disrupted a Joint Session of the U.S. Congress in the process of affirming Presidential election results. Robert Scott Palmer, 53, of Largo, Florida, was charged by criminal complaint with one count of assaulting, resisting, opposing, impeding, intimidating,...

CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. (WPLG) – A Coral Springs woman was arrested on Tuesday after she allegedly hit her ex-boyfriend with a hammer and vandalized his car by smearing barbeque sauce and whipped cream on it. Officers responded to a domestic dispute call and spoke with the man who said the couple had decided to break up. He told officers his ex-girlfriend, Beth Bianca Bruna, 22, became angry when he went to her apartment and put her belongings outside. The man said he had been dating Bruna since December 2019, according to local ABC affiliate WPLG. Bruna saw the victim putting...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A Florida man beat and stabbed a man in the head who walked into a KFC Wednesday begging for food, investigators said. Branden Dion Pearson was approached by the man asking for food around noon inside the restaurant, the South Florida Sun Sentinel reported. Pearson refused to feed him and then started calling the man names. The two started shouting and cursing at each other inside the restaurant. Then, they started punching each other in the doorway. When an employee got between them, Pearson was inside and the victim, who has not been named, was outside....

Suspect claims it was regular candyA Florida man who nearly hit a gas pump pulled out a package of “Dank Gummies” instead of his driver’s license to show a deputy who was trying to help him, according to the Collier County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies said they were called to a gas station on Pine Ridge Road in Naples shortly before midnight on March 1 because witnesses said a suspicious man had nearly hit a gas pump and appeared to be under the influence. Records show Demecio Lopez saw the deputy and immediately asked for help calling AAA because his car...

Miami, Florida – A Boca Raton man pleaded guilty today in West Palm Beach federal court to producing, distributing, and possessing child sexual abuse material.As part of his guilty plea before U.S. District Judge Donald Middlebrooks, Robert Solove, 29, admitted to using social networking applications on his phone to communicate with children and to solicit and distribute child sexual abuse material. Solove admitted during the hearing that he created illegal photos and videos of an 18-month-old child in his care and shared them in his smartphone social networking application’s chat rooms and with other individuals. Solove also developed an online...

A Florida man accused of trying to organize an armed response to supporters of former President Donald Trump for their expected gathering last month at the state Capitol has been indicted on federal ...

POLK COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) — A Polk County man shot and killed a suspected burglar outside his Frostproof home Sunday morning. The Polk County Sheriff’s Office said Jory Plummer burglarized a home in his neighborhood where a husband, wife, and their three children were sleeping. Deputies said the wife heard banging on the front door and woke up her husband, who went to the front of the house to check on the noise. The husband found their front door had been forced open and immediately armed himself with a handgun. The man said he found the suspected burglar, Plummer, in...

Suspect wanted on grand theft chargeVolusia County deputies are looking for a man who gave both women he was dating a fake name, stole from them and took rings from one of his girlfriends to propose to his other girlfriend. The love triangle began to unravel earlier this year when an Orange City woman realized her boyfriend was engaged to another woman who lives in Orlando. The Orange City girlfriend looked through the fiancée’s Facebook page and saw she was wearing her wedding band and engagement ring from a prior marriage, records show. The Orange City woman checked her jewelry...

A Florida teenager who authorities say killed his mom when he was 15 after an argument about his school grades was sentenced Friday to 45 years in prison. Gregory Ramos, now 17, reportedly pleaded guilty to first-degree murder last month in the strangling death of Gail Cleavenger, 46, in 2018.After he killed her, he buried her underneath a burn pit at a nearby church and reported she had gone missing after he staged a fake burglary at the house, authorities have said, according to FOX 35 in Orlando.

<p>Officials say a naked Florida man has been arrested after stealing what news footage showed to be a marked Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office cruiser and crashing it.</p><p>The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office says 22-year-old Joshua Shenker was arrested after Thursday’s crash and charged with theft of a motor vehicle, aggravated battery on a law enforcement officer and other counts.</p>

Antifa supporter Daniel Alan Baker was arrested for plotting to murder Trump supporters and police on Inauguration Day. He trained in Syria in 2017 with the YPG, was featured on VICE, and in 2020 participated in the CHAZ insurrection in Seattle, per DOJ documents. Jack Posobiec broke the story Friday. see links Daniel Alan Baker wanted to stockpile AK-47s and build bombs in CHAZ district in Seattle to start “the revolution.” Baker posted links to CNN on his “Call to Arms” to kill Trump supporters and police officers on Inauguration Day.

#3,841 I think this vid gives a good overview of what happened. It starts with some crazy woman saying ANY SUV THAT COMES NEAR US YOU NEED TO SHOOT THEM SHOOT ALL THE SUVS IT COULD BE ALL OF THEM etc etc At 0: 45 you hear screaming tires and at around 1:00 the jeep crashes and gunshots start. I marked the place where the jeep crashes. On the pic the crash already occurred. Rumor is that there was a shootout before with another group. That's why the crazy woman yells to shoot any suv that comes near. 14 and...

Federal law enforcement agents have arrested a Florida Man and charged him with trying to organize an armed response to pro-President Donald Trump protesters expected at the state Capitol on Sunday. The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that the FBI arrested Daniel Baker of Tallahassee on Friday. Authorities say Baker issued a “call to arms” on social media to recruit people in a plot to create an armed circle around protesters and trap them in the Capitol complex “using firearms.” “Extremists intent on violence from either end of the political and social spectrums must be stopped, and they will be stopped,”...

Federal agents arrested a self-admitted anarchist and “hardcore leftist” on Friday on suspicion of plotting to violently disrupt planned election-related protests at the Florida state Capitol. Prosecutors said they “averted a crisis” at the Capitol by arresting 33-year-old Daniel Baker, taking him into custody on a charge involving making a threat to kidnap or injure, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Florida announced in a news release. “Baker issued a call to arms for like-minded individuals to violently confront protestors gathered at the Florida Capitol this Sunday,” prosecutors said. “He specifically called for others to join him...