In the wake of several controversies involving foreign actors attempting land purchases near sensitive U.S. bases, a new federal rule will expand a Treasury committee’s ability to control the transactions. Lawmakers in Florida, North Dakota and elsewhere have long sounded the alarm over Chinese companies in particular, and now the Biden administration is taking steps...
A Florida woman was arrested Tuesday after she allegedly confessed to making online death threats toward Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, according to officials. Danyele Callaway, 20, was charged with written or electronic threat to kill or inflict bodily injury, the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release. DeSantis’ office notified the Florida Department...
A pink-obsessed woman has turned her home into a 1970s vintage space thanks to her creative eye for detail. Annie Penta was looking for a new spot to live in Miami, Florida, when a condo built in 1975 became available. She told SWNS that she knew right away that she had to go look at...
Florida mass shooter Nikolas Cruz has agreed to donate his brain to science in a “unique” civil settlement reached with one of his victims, according to court papers and experts. Cruz used an AR-15 assault rifle to massacre 17 students and staffers at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland on Feb. 14, 2018, in...
A family’s paddleboarding outing in Florida took a terrifying turn on Tuesday. A mother was with her family off of Cedar Key when a thunderstorm kicked up, according to a U.S. Coast Guard press release. The Coast Guard Sector Petersburg was contacted by Levy County Sheriff’s Office dispatch at 10:41 a.m.The sheriff’s office reported that...
Three days after a Florida deputy was released from the hospital after being run over by a suspect’s vehicle, the sheriff announced three people have been arrested as a result of the investigation. “I’m incensed that any human being would inflict this type of violence against another human being in our wonderful, special Tampa Bay...
Five men huddled atop a capsized boat were rescued on Sunday after their vessel overturned 11 miles off the coast of Florida, U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) officials said. Coast Guard Sector Jacksonvillewas alerted at 10:15 a.m. to the capsized 24-foot vessel in the waters off Mayport, a community near Jacksonville, USCG said in a statement....
Satanists are ready to volunteer in Florida’s schools in response to Governor Ron DeSantis’s push to integrate more religion into the state’s public school system under a volunteer school chaplain program that went into effect last week. Members of The Satanic Temple (TST) say they are ready to serve as “volunteer chaplains” under a new...
An endangered sea turtle was rescued after getting stuck between rocks on a Florida beach, authorities said Monday. The loggerhead sea turtle came ashore in Martin County to lay eggs and tried to make it back to the water through a narrow path on the rocks but got stuck, the Martin County Sheriff’s Office said....
A Florida man was arrested over the weekend after authorities said he dangled and dropped a child headfirst off a second-story hotel balcony in Daytona Beach. Authorities with the Daytona Beach Police Department said Brandon Gilmore, 31, is facing an aggravated child abuse charge after the incident that happened on Saturday afternoon at the Sandlewood...
