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Gabrielle Union has put the Walt Disney Company on blast for their response to Florida’s recently passed Parental Rights in Education legislation, which many are calling the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. “Somebody asked me, ‘Are you disappointed?’ I’m disappointed when my order isn’t right at In-N-Out. I don’t even think that’s a word that you […]
The U.S. Department of Justice has formally announced a $127.5 million settlement with families of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School mass shooting victims. The settlement, per a report from the Associated Press, includes 40 different civil cases that were spurred by the February 2018 mass shooting in Parkland, Florida. In court documents viewed by Complex and available […]
A Dunkin employee has been sentenced on a reduced count after previously being charged with manslaughter in connection with the fatal punch of a customer who used a racist slur against him. An Associated Press report this week revealed that 27-year-old Corey Pujols of Florida has pleaded guilty to felony battery and been sentenced to two years […]
Authorities are investigating a “horrific” car accident that left one person dead and six others injured at a Miami restaurant. According to NBC 6, the incident occurred Thursday night at the Italian eatery Call Me Gaby, located at 22 Washington Avenue in South Beach. Police say at around 6 p.m. an “elderly” woman was trying to […]
A South Florida woman is facing a first-degree murder charge after she allegedly stabbed her husband, who was physically disabled, more than 140 times. NBC News reports Joan Burke, 61, of Palm Springs, was arrested Sunday and charged with the death of her husband Melvin Weller, 62, whose body was found by Burke’s son on the couple’s kitchen floor […]
Bernie Madoff’s 87-year-old sister Sondra and her 90-year-old husband Marvin Wiener were found dead inside their Florida home Thursday afternoon. from what investigators suspect to be a murder-suicide, The Guardian reports. “Detectives from the violent crimes division arrived on scene to investigate further,” the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement Sunday. “After further investigation it appears to be […]
A South Florida day care center is facing a lawsuit after a mother found her two-year-old daughter locked inside the facility by herself. Fox affiliate WSVN reports Stephanie Martinez arrived at the KinderCare Learning Center in Plantation around 6:30 p.m. Wednesday and discovered her daughter was locked in. “They know I get here around 6, 6:15 because I have […]
A Florida police officer’s alleged excessive force was caught on tape, with the footage showing him punching and kneeling on a man after he was already in handcuffs. NBC News reports that the officer, from the West Palm Beach Police Department, has been hit with charges of aggravated battery due to the Nov. 1, 2019 […]
A Florida deputy was fired and arrested after allegedly being involved in a revenge plot that aimed to frame an innocent man on drug charges. NBC News reports Niko Irizarry, 25, who was formerly employed by the Lee County Sheriff’s Office, was arrested last Friday and charged with felony official misconduct. Irizarry’s arrest comes two months after he allegedly […]
A Florida judge has thrown out George Zimmerman’s defamation and conspiracy lawsuit against Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin, the parents of Trayvon Martin, the 17-year-old child he shot and killed nearly a decade ago, according to the Associated Press. Judge John Cooper wrote in his order that Zimmerman didn’t show “any fraudulent representation,” and it would be pointless […]
