MIAMI (AP) — Aid rushed into hurricane-scarred Florida early Tuesday, residents began to dig out, and officials slowly pieced together the scope of Irma’s vicious path of destruction across the peninsula. Even as glimmers of hope emerged from parts of the state forecasters once worried would be razed by the storm, the fate of the […]
MIAMI (AP) — Authorities sent an aircraft carrier and other Navy ships to help with search-and-rescue operations in Florida on Monday as a flyover of the hurricane-battered Keys yielded what the governor said were scenes of devastation. “I just hope everyone survived,” Gov. Rick Scott said. He said boats were cast ashore, water, sewers and […]
MIAMI (AP) — Hurricane Irma gave Florida a coast-to-coast pummeling with winds up to 130 mph Sunday, swamping homes and boats, knocking out power to millions and toppling massive construction cranes over the Miami skyline. The 400-mile-wide (640-kilometer-wide) storm blew ashore in the mostly cleared-out Florida Keys, then marched up its western coast, its punishing […]
MIAMI (AP) — The race to flee Hurricane Irma became a marathon nightmare as more than a half-million people were ordered to leave South Florida on Thursday. With the storm barreling toward the tip of Florida for perhaps a catastrophic blow this weekend, normally quick trips turned into daylong journeys on crowded highways amid a […]
In Naples Florida, a man has been convicted of brutally killing his wife and five children. According to CBS News, 41-year-old Mesac Damas plead guilty to six counts of first-degree murder on September 5, 2017, which would have been the first day of jury selections. He is looking at a possible death sentence which he […]
Maybe it was coincidence, but after 33-year-old Makeva Jenkins boasted on Facebook about her financial success, she was killed shortly afterwards by a man who broke into her home. The man, 19-year-old Joevan Joseph was arrested Saturday in connection with the fatal shooting Jenkins. Joseph has been charged with first-degree murder in the June 29 killing. He claimed he […]
Maybe it was coincidence, but after 33-year-old Makeva Jenkins boasted on Facebook about her financial success, she was killed shortly afterwards by a man who broke into her home. The man, 19-year-old Joevan Joseph was arrested Saturday in connection with the fatal shooting Jenkins. Joseph has been charged with first-degree murder in the June 29 killing. He claimed he […]
DT Minich is the President/CEO of Experience Kissimmee. He’s so happy to welcome the Tom Joyner Family Reunion back to Kissimmee this year! There are so many things to do when you get to Kissimmee! Minich says, “Universal is amazing. They have the new volcano bay water park. We’ve got huge shopping outlets. They are […]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — For the first time in state history, Florida is expecting to execute a white man Thursday for killing a black person — and it plans to do so with the help of a drug that has never been used before in any U.S. execution. Barring a stay, Mark Asay, 53, is […]
According to police, a 3-year-old Florida boy was found dead inside of a daycare van Monday night. He was left in the van for 11 hours. Officers were called in after a report of child neglect was made at Little Miracles Academy. When they arrived on scene 3-year-old Myles Hill’s body was found inside the […]
A group of Florida teens who recorded themselves mocking Jamel Dunn, 32, as he was drowning may face charges.
After Dashoan and Sofia Olds watched a news segment about the children's dilemma, they knew what they needed to do.
