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Jaquay Marlon Jean, 21, was detained in North Miami yesterday by officers from the Martin County Sheriff’s Warrants Unit and U.S. Marshals Regional Fugitive Task Force after he allegedly sped off in the hijacked vehicle with a grandmother and infant still inside. Police said the incident occurred as the family were parked at a Mobil gas station on Florida State Road 714. The suspect, who was holding a gun at the time, walked up to the car and attacked the female driver....

Aaron Henderson, 43, was a traffic control contractor working for the North Central Landfill in Polk County when sheriff deputies were called to the scene at around 5 p.m. after a bulldozer crushed him to death while he was using a porta-potty. Deputies reported that Henderson had been working as a spotter at the site, directing the flow of trucks in and out as they dumped trash in the landfill....

Bryan Raymond of Fort Myers, Florida, planted the banana tree on Thursday night after growing frustrated with constantly filling the pothole with cement. Raymond, who owns a business on the same street where the pothole was located, told WBBH-TV that his security cameras have watched the hole repeatedly cause damage to cars. “If we have to maintain it and make sure nobody gets hurt, we are going to put something obvious there to make sure nobody gets in the hole,” Raymond told the news outlet....

A federal jury found Scott guilty of using his Orlando-based telemarketing call center, Scott Global, to profit off of Medicare beneficiaries in the scheme. Prosecutors said he falsely told Medicare beneficiaries that the federal healthcare program would pay for expensive genetic tests. The tests, which can cost up to $6,000, would determine the likelihood of their developing cancer in the future. After beneficiaries agreed to the tests, Scott paid illegal bribes to telemedicine doctors to write orders authorizing them....

On Thursday, 45-year-old Dwight Castaldi was sentenced for coercing young girls to send him sexually explicit pictures of themselves as he pretended to be a teenager during online chats. Castaldi previously pleaded guilty to production, distribution, and possession of child pornography, and online enticement of minors. Castaldi’s sentence was handed down by U.S. District Judge Rodney Smith, who sits in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. In 2008, Castaldi started communicating with nearly six minor-aged girls, as young as 13, on various social networking websites....

When officers searched Stone’s Saint James City, Florida home on May 21, 2020, they found upwards of 88,000 pictures and videos with Stone and the manatees, according to the Fort Myers News-Press. The imagery showed Stone interacting with the manatees closely, often touching them with his hands or feet while talking to them. Stone confirmed all the videos and images were his. Stone shared many of the recordings on his personal social media....

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Its latest update, which confirmed 1,698 additional cases diagnosed over the last 24 hours, followed more than one week of reports that show rising numbers. Outside of Monday’s virus update–which identified 966 additional cases–Florida’s health authorities have confirmed at least 1,000 new positive tests every day since June 3. Thursday’s increase came one week after the Department of Health reported the state’s previous single-day high of 1,419 additional cases–the same number it confirmed on April 17–during the peak of the United States’ virus outbreak....

A public health advisory signed by State Surgeon General Dr. Scott Rivkees on Thursday mandates that the vaccine be given to only Florida residents and people in the state for “the purpose of providing health care services involving direct contact with patients,” noting that “vaccine availability in Florida is extremely limited.” The order applies to the first of two vaccine doses, meaning that the thousands from out of state who have already received a first dose will be able to complete the course....

The Parental Rights in Education bill has been dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill by critics, who say it will marginalize LGBTQ children and families. The bill states that school districts “may not encourage classroom discussion about sexual orientation or gender identity in primary grade levels or in a manner that is not age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students.” Parents could sue a school district for violations. The bill prohibits school districts from maintaining procedures that withhold information or encourage students to withhold information related to a student’s mental, emotional, or physical health or well-being from parents....

“Most of us, and this is across the nation and many of the experts, did not expect to see a surge as significant,” Dr. Vincent Hsu, executive director of infection prevention at AdventHealth and hospital epidemiologist, told Newsweek on Thursday. “In the United States as a whole, this surge has not overwhelmed hospitals, but in Florida, it has,” he added. “We are at our greatest number of admissions in Florida....

Two pages of West Broward High School yearbook showed a number of students holding placards while mentioning their participation in the Black Lives Matter movement, as well as featuring the names of people who have been killed by police in the U.S. As reported by Local 10, the school administration told students on Friday that they must stop distributing the book. “Most of it is history…of why it’s happening.” Edge Yearbook Co-Editor-in-Chief Elise Twitchell told Local 10....

MORE: Top 40 college football players | Preseason Top 25 The Miami native chose to be a Seminole rather than a Hurricane more than two years ago and has prospered as a running back ever since. Back then Cook was a 5-11, 190-pound recruit. Today, he’s a dominant 213-pound junior and one of the nation’s premier players. “I think at any point in a game I can bust out a run,” Cook said Friday at the ACC Kickoff in Charlotte....

The registration portal, which joined several others already established across the state, opened at 11 a.m. ET on Tuesday and offered roughly 14,000 available appointments throughout the upcoming week. According to the Miami Herald, all vacant slots were full within minutes of the site becoming active. The latest scheduling portal came along with an immunization initiative launched by Jackson Health System, a network of medical facilities based in Miami that provides opportunities for individuals over 65 to receive doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine....

Expectations are on the rise at Florida under second-year coach Dan Mullen, who led the Gators to 10 wins last season and is hoping for continued development from veteran quarterback Feleipe Franks this season. Miami will have a first-year coach Manny Diaz and first-time starter Jarren Williams at quarterback. The Hurricanes will look to pull the big upset in a game that will start what should be a fun season....

Mayweather, not yet two months removed from his victory over Manny Pacquiao, said as much in a video clip that surfaced Wednesday on Instagram. Chatting with a group, Mayweather mused at a possible comeback by De La Hoya, who has been retired since 2009. MORE: Mayweather Jr. tops highest-paid athletes | Mayweather Jr. called Mark Wahlberg to talk trash “Oscar … He’s coming back,” Mayweather said. “I mean if he wants to, we can rock ’n’ roll in the same gym....

On Friday night, the boxing legend took to his Instagram account and posted a series of touching and candid photos of them together and of Harris with their kids. Mayweather captioned the images with sweet sentiments such as “my angel,” “my heart,” “my love,” “my rock,” “my family,” “my friend” and “my sweetheart” to name a few. A post shared by Floyd Mayweather (@floydmayweather) on Mar 13, 2020 at 4:27pm PDT...

How much it will taint a treasured athletic entity remains to be seen. Will it result in coach Roy Williams’ demise? How much of Rashad McCants’ allegations will be proved true? And will the Tar Heels pay with sanctions because of the school’s academics scandal? Kenneth Wainstein, a former high-ranking U.S. Justice Department official, revealed his findings from witnesses and records in the investigation. Findings were provided to university officials last week for review and to the NCAA....

During the revolutionary turmoil that led to the monarchy’s final overthrow in the month of the January 1979, Ayatollah Khomeini made a number of promises to the citizens of Iran. Unfortunately, the results are the exact opposite of what was promised. One such promise was a justice system based on Islam and its humane and egalitarian injunctions. The system would remedy past injustices and apply to the law fairly to all, inclusive of women, various ethnic groups, and religious minorities, as well as the socioeconomically disenfranchised....