Florida Hires Louisiana Tech S Michael White To Replace Billy Donovan

Florida has hired Louisiana Tech coach Michael White to replace recently departed Billy Donovan. The university announced the hiring Thursday evening . MORE: Top UF recruit to ask for release | Florida to play Michigan State | Highest-paid coaches “I have an incredible amount of respect for the University of Florida, and I am so excited to be a Gator,” White said in a statement. “Not only is Florida home for me, but the tradition and success that the Gators have built make this an incredible opportunity....

December 13, 2022 · 2 min · 324 words · Robert Wetherington

Florida Holidays Honoring Confederate Birthdays May Soon Be Erased

The Removing Memorializations of the Confederate States of America bill was written by Democratic state Senator Lauren Book and was officially introduced to the Senate earlier this month. The bill proposes the removal of three days formally recognized by the state legislature as holidays. Two of these holidays are birthdays, Robert E. Lee Day on January 19 and Jefferson Davis Day on June 3. The other day that the bill aims to remove is Confederate Memorial Day on April 26....

December 13, 2022 · 3 min · 440 words · Betty Stahl

Florida Legislature Passes Don T Say Gay Bill Now Goes To Ron Desantis

Supporters and sponsors said the bill is written to stop teachers from teaching kindergarteners through third graders about sexual orientation or gender identity. However, it has gained national attention for its broad language that critics said could lead to students being punished for mentioning anything related to those topics in class, even if it’s not related to what is being taught. The bill passed the state House last month and saw over a dozen amendments fail to be added during its time in the Legislature, with some designed to lessen the impact of the bill and some to make the rules stricter....

December 13, 2022 · 3 min · 580 words · Deborah Smith

Florida Man And Niece Choke Uber Eats Driver Who Crashed His Car Punch Him In The Face And Steal His Bag Police Say

Glenn Antonietti, 57, and his niece, Lisa Antonietti, 33, of Hudson, Florida, have been arrested following an incident on Ridge Road in Port Richey on August 19. According to the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office, after the pair had stopped to check on the driver, Lisa Antonietti allegedly picked up the victim’s bag containing about 60 Xanax pills and started to walk away, reports Patch. When the driver confronted her, she allegedly choked him from behind....

December 13, 2022 · 2 min · 374 words · Jerome Gilbert

Florida Man Arrested After Concealing Phone In Restroom Toilet Says He Hoped To Catch Girlfriend Having An Affair

Crawford Lee Croxton, 36, was arrested and taken into custody on Tuesday by deputies from the Baxter County Sheriff’s Office after allegedly hiding a phone with the camera activated “beneath and behind” the toilet around August 2, according to a release posted online this week. Investigators said they were alerted to the covert device after it was found by a store employee. Footage on the phone showed the suspect positioning the camera several times and moving items around the restroom in an attempt to conceal the camera....

December 13, 2022 · 2 min · 409 words · John Lopez

Florida Man Arrested For Slashing Woman With Knife Released From Prison Goes Back To Kill Her

Warren Brown, 57, has been charged with second-degree murder in the death of 43 year old Sophie Solis, the St. Petersburg Police Department said. Brown was arrested on Saturday after concerned friends found Solis’s body in the trunk of Brown’s car in the driveway of their home in Organdy Drive in St. Petersburg, Florida. Police said she had been stabbed and that detectives also found photos of the couple as well as bloody clothing in the trunk....

December 13, 2022 · 2 min · 405 words · Maurice Minner

Florida Man Caught With Enough Fentanyl To Kill Over 200K People

“The Hernando County Sheriff’s Office Vice and Narcotics Unit was notified of a possible narcotics dealer who was selling large amounts of fentanyl within Hernando County,” the Hernando County Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook post on Monday. According to the Hernando County Sheriff’s Office, the suspect was identified as 49-year-old Jacob Spinoza, who lived at 6099 Patricia Place in Spring Hill. The sheriff’s office said that he was found to be in possession of 1....

December 13, 2022 · 3 min · 588 words · Cary Stults

Florida Man Charged With Hate Crimes For Painting Swastikas On Synagogues

Martinez was allegedly captured on surveillance footage spray-painting swastikas and anti-Semitic graffiti on the buildings of Temple Emanu-El and Temple Sinai. Authorities also obtained security camera footage of Martinez at an automated teller machine wearing the same clothing seen in the footage from the synagogues. “The Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office takes hate crimes such as these very seriously,” said Colonel Kurt A. Hoffman in a Friday statement. “Our detectives worked tirelessly with help from the community to bring this case to a successful conclusion....

December 13, 2022 · 3 min · 440 words · Glenn Maxim

Florida Man Holds Out F Biden Flag As He S Hit By Hurricane Ian

The brief video shows the man withstanding the powerful gales during the hurricane while someone records him. Most prominently, the flag says “F*** Biden” but beneath it, it also reads “and F*** you for voting for him,” in reference to President Joe Biden’s election win. The video, posted on Wednesday by the Twitter page RedHat Pitbull 3, has so far been viewed more than 1.8 million times. The page creator also claimed to be the individual in the video and added in the comments: “I already know I’m an idiot but just felt the need....

December 13, 2022 · 3 min · 462 words · Sean Bridges

Florida Man Offers Ufo Abduction Insurance For Area 51 Raid But You Need An Alien Signature And It Pays 1 Per Year For 10 Million Years

Mike St. Lawrence, who spearheads The Saint Lawrence Agency in Altamonte Springs, says that the operation has existed since 1987—charging $19.95 for a digital lifetime plan and $24.95 for a paper version. Thanks to a recent social media sensation, business is on the up. A line of text on St. Lawrence’s retro website references the “Storm Area 51, They Can’t Stop All of Us” campaign on Facebook, which spawned a new meme and forced a response from the U....

December 13, 2022 · 3 min · 620 words · George Oloughlin

Florida Man Posing As Purple Heart Recipient Waves Gun At Black Homeowner

Joseph Max Fucheck, 58, was arrested last week in Miami and is awaiting arraignment on charges of aggravated assault with a firearm with prejudice and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. On June 14, Fucheck is said to have dropped a flyer for his real estate business into the mailbox of Dwayne Wynn, who had been speaking with a neighbor outside his home. When Wynn retrieved the flyer moments later, Fucheck returned in his SUV and launched into a profanity-laced tirade, insisting that Wynn did not own his home and accusing him of stealing his property by taking the flyer....

December 13, 2022 · 3 min · 475 words · Walter Stanley

Florida Mom Pulls Giant Python Out Of Car Wearing Flip Flops And Apron

Mike Kimmel, who goes by the social media handle Trapper Mike, shared the moment to his TikTok account earlier this week, with the caption: “Thanksgiving in Florida.” In the video, which has racked up more than 2.6 million views in four days, Kimmel’s mother is seen using her whole body weight to pull the giant snake out from the back of the parked car. Kimmel comes to her aid by threading the snake, whose head is poking out of one of the rear wheels, back through the wheel....

December 13, 2022 · 2 min · 414 words · Calvin Flores

Florida Prostitute And Escort Rental Website Now Owned By Federal Authorities

A joint task force of the FBI, the Southern District of Florida’s U.S. Attorney’s Office and the Broward County Sheriff’s Office announced Friday that the call-girl website had been taken out of the hands of a South Florida man. The website’s intent wasn’t just geared for those wishing to buy, rent or even casually view women, but it was also a way for escort agencies to advertise themselves and their clients....

December 13, 2022 · 2 min · 365 words · Donald Smith

Florida Reports Highest Single Day Coronavirus Cases Deaths As Nearly 1 In 5 Tests Positive

The state reported 8,935 new cases and 120 new deaths overnight, along with 409 new hospitalizations, according to WSVN 7 News reporter Brian Entin. The state’s coronavirus website says there are now 232,718 confirmed cases of the virus and 4,009 deaths attributed to its disease, COVID-19. Newsweek reached out to the Florida Department of Health for comment but did not hear back in time for publication. Governor Ron DeSantis is scheduled to give an update on the state’s outbreak at 2:30 p....

December 13, 2022 · 3 min · 472 words · Vera Garcia

Florida Residents Allegedly Cast Multiple Votes In 2020 Election Spanning Several States

Jay Ketcik, Joan Halstead and John Rider, residents of The Villages, Florida, face one count each of voting multiple times in the 2020 general election, WKMG-TV in Orlando reported. This type of voter fraud is classified as a third-degree felony and is punishable by up to five years in prison. Ketcik, 63, allegedly voted by mail in Florida last October and attempted to cast an absentee ballot in his home state of Michigan, according to the court records....

December 13, 2022 · 3 min · 427 words · Judith Berry

Florida S Matt Gaetz Gives Spring Break Warning As Miami Beach Arrests Pass 1 000

“If you want to come to our state and enjoy freedom, go to a restaurant, go to the beach, go fishing, get a little weird (not too weird…) Then as we say in the deep south, y’all come! But if you’re coming to cause damage and harm, you’ll be held accountable,” he said on Fox News in an interview with Sean Hannity. When asked by Hannity to elaborate on “getting a little weird,” Gaetz said: “Maybe a bit of body paint here and there, maybe throw some beads but don’t hurt anybody....

December 13, 2022 · 3 min · 471 words · Michael Thompson

Florida Security Firm Probed In Assassination Link To Haiti President After Photo Emerges

Officials say the proof was a photo they found in which men working for the firm were meeting with Colombian Americans suspected of being involved in the assassination. The Associated Press reported that 26 Colombians have been named suspects in the assassination, and Colombia’s national police chief, Gen. Jorge Luis Vargas, told reporters in Bogota that three Colombians were killed and 18 so far arrested. Antonio “Tony” Intriago, the owner of Miami-based CTU Security, was accused on Wednesday of traveling to Haiti multiple times, hiring more than 20 former Colombian soldiers for the job, and signing a contract of some kind, although further evidence and details are unknown....

December 13, 2022 · 3 min · 485 words · Howard Cookson

Florida Seventh Grader Sends 41 To Hospital When He Mistakes Pepper Spray For Body Spray

A student at Highlands Middle School in Jacksonville, Florida caused the school’s gymnasium to be evacuated after dispersing the spray last week, according to a Friday report in The Gainesville Sun. The boy had taken the pepper spray from the belongings of another student before deciding to help himself to a generous spritz. “Thinking it was body spray, the student who took the canister actually sprayed himself as if he were applying a body fragrance product,” Principal Evan Daniels said to parents in a pre-recorded phone message, according to the outlet....

December 13, 2022 · 2 min · 393 words · Paul Lynn

Florida Spends 600 000 To Tell Over 2 Million People They Aren T Registered To Vote But Some Of Them Are

The state identified over 2 million potentially eligible but unregistered voters, but the Electronics Registration Information Center (ERIC) used did not exclude the thousands of voters whose information is shielded under Florida law, according to Division of Elections Director Maria Matthews. The public records exemption request provided by the Florida Department of State allows those holding certain government jobs classified as “high-risk professional class,” as well as their spouses and family members, to protect their personal information....

December 13, 2022 · 3 min · 451 words · Rosetta Dawood

Florida State Representative Says Trump Has Hatred For Puerto Rico In Wake Of 6.4 Magnitude Earthquake

Democratic Florida Representative Carlos G. Smith made the remark as part of response slamming a Tuesday Twitter post from Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) indicating that the senator had contacted the administration to request a “swift emergency declaration so that federal assistance can move quickly.” “So that federal assistance can MOVE QUICKLY, Senator @marcorubio??? Puerto Rico still hasn’t received the billions of dollars Congress approved over 700 days ago because of Trump’s hatred for the island,” replied Smith....

December 13, 2022 · 3 min · 495 words · Phillip Zayas