[ad_1] CNN — A woman has confined herself to a room inside a Daytona Beach, Florida, hospital after shooting her terminally ill husband on Saturday, police say. Officers arrived at the Advent Health Hospital after receiving a report of about a person being shot, Daytona Beach police said in a …
Read More »Florida Rep. Greg Steube suffered ‘several serious injuries’ in accident on his property
[ad_1] CNN — Republican Rep. Greg Steube of Florida is making “good progress” after suffering “several serious injuries” in an accident on his Sarasota property Wednesday afternoon, according to a statement from his office. Steube spent the night in the ICU, his office said Thursday on his official Twitter account, …
Read More »Opinion: Miami is one step closer to the implosion of its crypto dreams
[ad_1] Editor’s Note: Jake Cline is a writer and editor in Miami whose work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Atlantic and other national outlets. He was a member of the team that won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Public Service for the South Florida Sun Sentinel’s coverage of …
Read More »US Coast Guard returns 273 migrants intercepted off Florida Coast to Cuba
[ad_1] CNN — The US Coast Guard says it repatriated 273 Cuban migrants Sunday after intercepting a number of boats off the Florida coast on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day. The migrants were returned to Cuba aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Mohawk, according to a news release. “The …
Read More »Rosewood, Florida marks 100 years since race massacre. Here’s what happened
[ad_1] CNN — In the years after World War I, Black people were thriving in the central Florida town of Rosewood when a White mob driven by racial animosity decimated the entire community within days. Rosewood became the site of a horrific massacre 100 years ago, during the first week …
Read More »Devastating disasters and flickers of hope: These are the top climate and weather stories of 2022
[ad_1] CNN — From a small island in Polynesia to the white-sand beaches of Florida, the planet experienced a dizzying number of climate and extreme weather disasters in 2022. Blistering summer heat broke records in drought-stricken China, threatening lives and food production. In the United States, drought and sea level …
Read More »Media outlets push fears of officers overdosing from fentanyl exposures. Doctors say it doesn’t add up.
[ad_1] New York CNN — The body-cam footage is harrowing. A Florida police officer, who had discovered what she believed to be fentanyl during a routine traffic stop last week, is seen lying on the ground and struggling to breathe. After a fellow officer administers medication that is used to …
Read More »Starving bees are robbing hives as their keepers try everything to save them
[ad_1] Arcadia, Florida CNN — Their busy, buzzing business partners pollinate everything from almonds in California to blueberries in Maine, so few people understand the state of American agriculture quite like Florida beekeepers. But colliding climate crises have left few as sad and worried. The storms and droughts of ’22 …
Read More »Tampa police chief placed on leave after flashing badge during traffic stop
[ad_1] CNN — Tampa Police Chief Mary O’Connor has been placed on administrative leave after body camera footage taken from a traffic stop last month revealed she told a deputy she was “hoping that you’ll just let us go tonight” and flashed her badge. O’Connor was a passenger in a golf …
Read More »Two more DeSantis administration officials named in lawsuit over migrant planes flown to Martha’s Vineyard
[ad_1] CNN — A class action lawsuit filed in September on behalf of an advocacy group and migrants flown to Martha’s Vineyard from Texas two months ago has added two additional members of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration and an alleged “lead recruiter” of the migrants as defendants, according to …
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