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Stephone Johnson, 27, was detained by officers from the St. Petersburg Police Department and booked into jail shortly after 10 p.m. last Tuesday after being charged with misdemeanor domestic battery, according to records published by the Pinellas County Clerk of Court. “The defendant threw a dog cage and the dog which was inside at the victim,” according to an arrest report, as reported by the Tampa Bay Times. The attack took place at roughly 7:30 p....

Gregory J. Blotnick, 34, of West Palm Beach and formerly New York City, submitted 21 dishonest PPP loan applications to 13 different lenders for at least nine businesses he controlled, according to court documents. “Mr. Blotnick repeatedly took advantage of a system intended to provide lifelines to small businesses and their employees during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic,” Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance wrote in an April press release after Blotnick was first charged....

Shapsly Silencieux, 37, reportedly told the young woman he would take her home after she accidentally jumped in his car, believing it to be the Uber she had requested to pick her up. The woman, originally from Alabama, was in the area for spring break and had been separated from a group of friends while out at America’s Backyard in downtown Fort Lauderdale. Silencieux allegedly picked up the woman along the 100 block of Southwest 3rd Avenue, telling her he was her Uber driver and he would take her home....

The Jupiter Police Department said in a media release that officers had been dispatched to the 800 block of University Boulevard on July 4, at approximately 12:10 a.m. Soon after, they received several more calls about possible shots fired in the area—later traced to The Sophia Abacoa Apartments complex. A preliminary investigation revealed a man called Louis Rivera, 65, had been stabbed outside his home after being confronted by James Dorcilien, 32, identified as a former employee....

“I open the door and I literally stepped right here and the girl is sitting in front of my door and she said ‘They’re following me, they’re following me’ and I was like ‘Who is following you?’ And when I went to go look this way and that’s when she attacked me and I fell to the ground and everything happened right here,” she told News4 JAX. Jacobs says she blacked out as the strangers beat her and threatened to stab her if she did not comply....

U.S. District Court Judge Amit Mehta reportedly urged Kelly Meggs, described as “the head of the Florida chapter of the Oath Keepers” in a court filing, to find a new lawyer during a remote hearing on Friday. Meggs complained of difficulties in searching for a lawyer while in jail after Mehta stressed that his attorney Jonathan Moseley would not be able to represent him due to his recent disbarment....

The information comes from data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human services. The Florida Hospital Association reported the state’s pandemic peak at 10,179 cases last July. The numbers on Thursday were five times higher than just a month ago, and quickly climbed from a little under 5,500 in one week. “What’s extraordinary is the speed at which we are currently seeing new cases. The slope is pretty steep, and we haven’t seen the end of it....

At issue is BlackRock’s use of so-called “ESG”—“environmental, social, and governance”—principles to coerce companies in which it invests to adopt policies demanded by the radical Left. Instead of maximizing investor profits by addressing standard business considerations, BlackRock’s dubious priority, in effect since at least 2018, is to use its massive financial leverage to foster “progressive” social and cultural change and, in Fink’s guilty white liberal formulation, change the nature of global capitalism itself....

Hoffmann spoke at a panel on Friday at the South County Tiger Bay Club along with North Port Police Chief Todd Garrison about Laundrie’s disappearance, according to a report by the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. Garrison and the local police department were criticized for believing Laundrie had returned home from the Carlton Reserve, when it was actually his mother Roberta Laundrie. “Now, we know that, by the time we became the lead agency, Brian had already left the house and presumably had already been deceased out in the Carlton Reserve,” he said....

The National Weather Service (NWS) has issued the watch for Volusia, Lake, Marion, Flagler, Dixie, Charlotte, Lee, Desoto, Highlands, Hardee, Polk, Sumter and Levy counties. It includes all of Central Florida and extends to the state’s border with Georgia. The watch is expected to last until 5 p.m. on Thursday, although it may be extended if a threat remains into the evening. A tornado watch means conditions are ripe for tornadoes to form in the area....

The Gators (10-3) trailed 7-3 after the first quarter, then outscored the Wolverines 38-8 over the final three. Quarterback Feleipe Franks and the Gator offense tore apart a Michigan defense that many considered to be one of the best in the country. SPORTING NEWS BEST OF 2018Read our favorite stories from the year in sports The Wolverines (10-3) were without several key players, including Devin Bush and Rashan Gary, as they decided to sit out the bowl game in preparation for the NFL Draft....

Suzan Marciano, 74, told Florida news outlet The Palm Beach Post that the incident took place as she was walking her dog Nalu near a lake at Burt Aaronson Park, close to the city of Boca Raton, on the evening of August 24. She said the dog had run into the water after being let off its leash. She soon noticed a dark shadow in the water, describing it as 6 feet or more in length....

The woman who burned down an historic 3,500-year old tree in 2012 while smoking methamphetamine was arrested on charges of trafficking meth last Friday, according to a Seminole County Sheriff’s Office arrest report. Deputies reportedly searched an Altamonte Springs, Florida, home last week with a search warrant and found 22 grams of methamphetamine in a red plastic container within a washing machine. They also found 16 grams in a plastic drawer in a room belonging to 33-year-old Sara Barnes, according to a report by WKMG....

After coming face-to-face with Pacquiao during his tour of Japan, Mayweather released a video on Instagram on Saturday accompanied by the message: “I’m coming back to fight Manny Pacquiao this year, another nine-figure pay day on the way!” MORE: Join DAZN and watch the Joshua-Povetkin fight for free Mayweather, 41, can be heard shouting in the video: “I’m coming back in December!” Mayweather is unbeaten in 50 career fights, having stopped UFC star Conor McGregor in a lucrative Las Vegas bout in August 2017....

And you could cash in. MORE: Classic photos of Floyd Mayweather Mayweather took to his Instagram account late Wednesday in an effort to crowd-source insults. He’s offering $10,000 to “CAPTION THIS!” video short with the most troll-worthy commentary. Looks like he’ll get plenty of help. By early Thursday, seven hours after he posted the video, it had logged 1.8 million views (and, warning to McGregor, 108,000 comments). A video posted by Floyd Mayweather (@floydmayweather) on Dec 14, 2016 at 8:51pm PST

The boxing superstar — who has had his own domestic abuse issues — said Tuesday he didn’t feel the original two-game suspension should be changed because of video. “I think there’s a lot worse things that go on in other people’s households, also,” Mayweather said. “It’s just not caught on video, if that’s safe to say.” Mayweather, who spent two months in a Las Vegas jail in 2012, still maintains his innocence even after pleading to reduced domestic abuse charges stemming from an attack on his former girlfriend while their children watched....

Rice, a former Baltimore Ravens running back, is a free agent. On Friday, an arbiter decided the NFL and commissioner Roger Goodell had erred in levying an indefinite suspension on Rice for cold-cocking his fiancée in a shocking instance of domestic abuse caught on video. The problem? Rice already had been suspended two games for the incident. The longer banishment was deemed double jeopardy. What remains is for the league to pick up the pieces from its mistake, as well for Rice to get on with his life with or without football....

The Families First Coronavirus Response Act was passed by the House on Saturday morning, but on Monday night the chamber approved major changes to the bill’s sick leave provisions before it was passed to the Republican-controlled Senate. It was reported by the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday that the changes were filed as a “technical correction” and passed unanimously, with many House lawmakers not present for the vote in Washington, D....

Training wheels: States that require learner’s permits for three months or more lower teen crash rates by 15 percent. Keep them practicing for at least that long. I call shotgun: Don’t stop riding with them after they get their license, either. Supervised driving is key. States with 30 or more required hours have 29 percent fewer deaths for 16-year-olds. No friends allowed: Other teens lead to reckless driving, so be the bad guy and keep friends out....