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It takes guts to walk around in a MAGA hat, what with all the liberal tolerance on display. Not even a 72-year-old gent is spared from the open-minded inclusiveness. From Florida: Laura Elizabeth Garrett, 33, was at Northeast Park and Paw Place located at 4630 East Bay Drive in Largo around 5:30 p.m. when she got into an argument with a 72-year-old man wearing a MAGA hat. … [T]he victim told investigators that Garrett hit him on the back of the head and shoulder area with a can she was holding before she jumped a fence and walked away. …...

The “anti-fascists” have officially made Nazi executions mainstream again. Using the same logic they used to justify gassing the Jews, our leftist ilk of self-righteous savages believe they have the moral authority to finish the job. Rebekah Jones, a convicted criminal and former Democrat congressional candidate, is celebrating the killing of a Jewish couple outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington D.C., Wednesday night. “Want to feel safe? Don’t commit a genocide,” she lectured the dead in a Tik Tok video. “Don’t work for people committing a genocide,” she continued, blaming Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim for their own murder...

A Florida woman is facing multiple charges stemming from her alleged attack on a 72-year-old man who was wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat earlier this week. Laura Garrett, 33, was arrested by the Largo Police Department on Tuesday for battery on a person older than 65, battery on a police officer and obstructing or resisting an officer without violence, according to Pinellas County Jail records. Garrett admitted she approached the man – who has not been publicly identified – at Northeast Park and Paw Place to ask him about President Donald Trump and why he supports him, according...

HOMESTEAD, Fla. – A Homestead woman was arrested Wednesday after she stabbed her daughter-in-law, authorities said. According to Homestead police, the stabbing occurred around 3:42 p.m. at a home in the 700 block of Southwest Fourth Avenue. Police said a responding officer knocked on the front door and when Celestine Ward, 57, opened the door, the officer spotted the victim sitting in a pool of blood on the living room floor, leaning against a cot bed. According to Ward’s arrest report, the victim was airlifted to Jackson South Medical Center in critical condition. Police said the victim’s daughter told officers...

People on social media are outraged over a video reportedly taken at the scene of a fatal mass shooting at Florida State University in Tallahassee, on Thursday, April 17. But it's not just over the alleged shooter, identified by Tallahassee police as 20-year-old FSU student Phoenix Ikner. It's over video that was seemingly shot by someone walking past a wounded, bleeding woman lying face down on the grass. Rather than stopping to help or even running away from an active shooter, as what sounds like two shots are fired in the background, the person walks by while sipping from a...

Police received a report Dec. 21, 2023, about a local business selling human bones on Facebook Marketplace, FOX 35 Orlando reported. Officers were sent images from the business’s Facebook page, which allegedly advertised the disturbing items. The Orange City business, Wicked Wonderland, was selling on its website two human skulls for $90, a human clavicle and scapula for $90, a human rib for $35, human vertebrae for $35 and a partial human skull for $600, according to authorities. Police took the human remains as evidence and submitted them for testing by a medical examiner, FOX 35 Orlando reported. When asked...

A woman allegedly drowned her pet dog in a toilet and dumped it in the trash in order to make her flight. Alison Agatha Lawrence, 57, was trying to board her plane at Orlando International Airport in Florida but did not have the proper paperwork for her pup to travel with her, WFTV reported. Lawrence is accused of then taking her small white poodle to the bathroom and killing it on December 16. Airport cleaning staff discovered it later, sources told the TV station. Police issued a warrant for Lawrence’s arrest and deputies took her into custody at her home...

A Florida middle school teacher has been arrested for hosting student fights and letting her kids brawl in the classroom, according to reports. Angel Footman, 23, allegedly allowed kids to sock each other senseless as she looked on from her desk, sometimes telling kids not to record the blows or attract attention by screaming and yelling.

Substitute teachers usually hope to make it through the day without incident. But one woman took the wrong route to solve a dispute. And a Florida substitute teacher asked her students one question that could land her in jail. Geanene White, a 57-year-old, was called in to serve as a substitute teacher at the YMCA Tiger Academy in Jacksonville, Florida. White resorted to something not found in any teaching manual. The charter school serves students in kindergarten through third grade. White had her classroom break up into small groups to work on a project. One of the elementary school students...

OSCEOLA COUNTY, Fla. — A woman was stabbed 14 times in front of her 5-year-old daughter after 22-year-old Brianna Alvelo became upset over a bad tip on a pizza delivery, documents obtained by WESH 2 show. The incident happened late Sunday night at Riviera Motel on E. Irlo Bronson Memorial Highway in Kissimmee, the Osceola County Sheriff's Office said. Deputies responded to the motel where they found the victim on the bed with stab wounds to her chest, arms, legs and abdomen, documents say. The woman was taken to the hospital, where she had surgery for a ruptured lung. The...

ORLANDO, Fla. — An Orlando woman was arrested after attacking a man on Thursday, according to the Orange County Sheriff's Office. Her weapon of choice was a Pringles chip can. Orange County Deputy Adams said he responded to a physical fight at the 7-Eleven gas station on International Drive in Orlando. "I arrived at the 7-Eleven and eventually made contact with the victim, who was later identified by his Florida driver’s license as Martin Milburn," Adams said. Martin stated that the assailant, Shanika Serdahl, struck him in the eye with a Pringles chip can and took off running. "While speaking...

SUNNY ISLES BEACH, Fla. – A Miami Beach woman was caught on surveillance video keying a man’s car in Sunny Isles Beach after a dispute over a parking space, authorities confirmed in an arrest report Wednesday. Sunny Isles Beach police said Damaras Iracema Rivera, 20, was arrested and faces one count of criminal mischief after police reviewed surveillance footage from the parking lot of Newport Fishing Pier Park, located at 16501 Collins Ave. According to an arrest report, the victim, a 36-year-old man, told officers he parked his red Mini Cooper at the lot around 12:30 p.m. on Feb. 14...

PUNTA GORDA, Florida (WZVN) — A Punta Gorda woman threw ketchup, mustard, and eggs at her ex-boyfriend’s car and then hit him with her Range Rover. Yoshabelle Edouard, 19, was arrested Friday after the incident in the parking lot at Hampton Point Apartments on Luther Road. Edouard allegedly threw eggs at her ex-boyfriend’s car before escalating the situation, then doused the vehicle with ketchup and mustard. Moments later, deputies said the suspect came speeding around a corner in her Range Rover and struck the victim with her vehicle. Deputies said the victim’s body was struck by the SUV, slamming him...

A Florida woman was caught on camera chucking a commemorative “first date” brick through her ex-husband’s window late last month – even as she repeatedly denied carrying out the vengeful act, according to police. Sabrina Coyne, 34, was arrested around 11 p.m. on Jan. 24 when Lee County Sheriff deputies confronted her in front of her ex’s Bonita Springs home, according to footage released by authorities. When law enforcement first reached the scene, one deputy asked Coyne, who was wearing a short dress and high heels, why she was banging on the front door. ... She claimed she lived at...

It wasn't long ago when we published a story about Oregon drug dealers who kept their stash in a bag cops would never, ever look in: You would think after that tactic misfired, no one would imagine trying it again. And yet … Meet Florida woman, Teryn Acri, who had recently been pulled over and caught with drugs. As a result of her learning experience, she thought she'd get a little sneaky, so she put her drugs in a place where Florida cops would never, ever look: a bag labeled "Definitely not a bag full of drugs". You know the...

It's always nice to tip your delivery drivers generously. No arguments there. But you shouldn't have to ... uhhh ... fear for your life over it: A Florida pizza delivery worker was so angry over a $2 tip she got from a pregnant customer that she stabbed the woman more than a dozen times, according to police. Brianna Alvelo, 22, got ticked off Sunday after dropping off a pie at the Riviera Motel in Kissimmee when the customer gave her a stingy tip — so she returned with a pal and stabbed the woman, the Osceola County Sheriff's Office said...

A Florida pizza delivery worker was so angry over a tip she got from a customer that she stabbed the woman multiple times, according to police. Brianna Alvelo, 22, got ticked off Sunday after dropping off a pie at the Riviera Motel in Kissimmee when the customer gave her a stingy tip — so she returned with a pal and stabbed the woman, the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office said in a press release posted on Facebook. “Alvelo, who was armed with a knife, began attacking one of the victims,” the sheriff’s office said. “The victim was stabbed multiple times, and...

What happened inside a jail in South Florida made national headlines. Tonight for the first time we are hearing exclusively from both the mother and father. Investigative reporter Heather Walker is at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center in West Miami-Dade. 7News broke this story back in January when the woman’s family wanted to know how this could happen here. The DNA results are in and the dad is another inmate. Daisy Link: “Hello.” For the first time, Daisy Link is talking about how she became pregnant in jail. In an exclusive interview with 7Investigates, the 29-year-old said even she...

Sarah Boone, 47, was convicted of second-degree murder in October for the 2020 death of Jorge Torres The Florida woman convicted of zipping her boyfriend in a suitcase and leaving him to suffocate to death while trapped inside has been sentenced to life in prison. Sarah Boone, 47, learned her fate in an Orlando courtroom on Monday, Dec. 2, more than a month after she was found guilty of second-degree murder in the death of Jorge Torres, Jr., 42.

Former President Donald Trump is leading Vice President Kamala Harris by double digits in Florida — once a considered a battleground state — according to a University of North Florida Public Opinion Research Lab (PORL) survey released Monday. The survey, taken among 977 likely Florida voters, showed 53 percent expressing support of Trump this election cycle. Harris came in ten points behind, garnering just 43 percent support. Two percent said they would vote for another candidate, and two percent remain unsure. The survey noted they included “blurters” in the final results: