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Two weeks before it’s set to premiere on Netflix, the streaming service has shared the trailer for Cocaine Cowboys: The Kings of Miami. The six-part documentary series, doled out into 45-minute episodes, follows up 2006’s Cocaine Cowboys. Just like the original film, which centered on the Florida city’s drug war amid the rise of coke, this version is set to be […]
A Florida man has become the first person sentenced for a felony in connection to the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol insurrection, which arrives six months after he breached the U.S. Senate chamber with a Trump flag in hand. He will spend eight months behind bars. Paul Allard Hodgkins was sentenced on Monday, according to the Associated Press, after […]
An ex-Florida sheriff’s deputy has been sentenced to 12-and-a-half years in prison for planting drugs during traffic stops and then arresting the drivers, the Associated Press reports. Zachary Wester was hit with 67 charges, including racketeering, official misconduct, fabricating evidence, perjury, false imprisonment, and possession of controlled substances and drug paraphernalia. He was ultimately convicted on […]
Authorities are now investigating after two people were found dead at the former Versace mansion in South Florida. On Wednesday, per a Miami Beach Police Department announcement, authorities responded after receiving a call from the housekeeping staff at the location—which currently operates as a hotel—informing them of two dead males. Police and fire agencies were […]
A Sarasota, Florida woman was forcibly taken off a plane this past Wednesday morning after her alleged refusal to put on a mask. According to NBC-2, 23-year-old Adelaide Schrowang was acting unruly and was in violation of the plane’s mask policies. Federal law still requires that every passenger wear a face covering when on a plane. […]
A man in Florida pleaded guilty last week after admitting to a murder-for-hire plot on his ex-girlfriend, and framing the crime afterwards on the Black Lives Matter movement, Newsweek reports. Daniel Slater, 51, of Palm Beach County, confessed in a July 8 hearing in federal district court as part of a plea deal that he was orchestrating a plan […]
The Florida Aquarium announced that it’ll “leave no stone unturned in our efforts to understand the tragic course of events” after 7 penguins died for unkown reasons. The 7 African penguins lived at the Tampa Bay location, which has been housing African penguins since 2006, and an investigation is now ongoing to figure out exactly […]
An 8-year-old child was hospitalized after being bitten by a shark on a Florida beach on the Fourth of July, WFTV reports. The unidentified boy was visiting the Ponce Inlet beaches in Volusia County when he was bitten in the right leg while in waist deep water by a shark believed to be around two to three feet […]
Kodak Black marked the 4th of July by giving back to his native Florida. The rapper purchased $12,500 worth of air conditioners this week and hand-delivered them out of a truck to residents at the Golden Acres Projects in Pompano Beach, dropping them off door-to-door. The rapper even brought some residents to tears, TMZ reports. All in all, Kodak […]
Warning: The below article contains graphic descriptions of sexual violence. A Tampa man was sentenced to life in prison on Monday after being convicted of molesting his girlfriend’s 10-year-old daughter, and attempting to cover up the evidence by using bleach, per WTSP. Lewis Matthews was 43 years old when he undressed, molested, and sexually battered his girlfriend’s daughter […]
