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An auctioneer has revealed plans to plead guilty for his involvement in helping create paintings falsely credited to the late Jean-Michel Basquiat, per CBS News. The fake Basquiat pieces were auctioned off and eventually found their way to the Orlando Museum of Art in Florida, where they were later seized by FBI agents last year. […]
A herd of cows halted traffic on a turnpike in central Florida after a cattle truck caught fire. According to the Miami Herald, the incident occurred on Monday after the driver of the van, a 47-year-old from Samson, Alabama, pulled off to the the Florida Turnpike South in Osceola County so the truck, which troopers said was carrying […]
A Florida man has been arrested after he posed as a Disney World employee and stole a $10,000 replica of the iconic Star Wars character R2-D2. ABC’s Central Florida affiliate WFTV reports David Emerson Proudfoot, 44, of Kissimmee, was arrested on May 31 after he snatched the droid from Disney World’s Swan Hotel in an attempt to get […]
The FBI raided the Orlando Museum of Art on Friday and seized 25 paintings attributed to Jean-Michel Basquiat following questions about their authenticity. The New York Times reports investigators obtained a search warrant to access Basquiat’s “Heroes and Monsters” exhibit, which opened in February and had been set to close on June 30. The feds claim […]
A Florida 10-year-old who’s alleged to have shot and killed a woman who was in an argument with her mother was arrested on Tuesday. As previously reported, the Orlando shooting on May 30 was preceded by an altercation involving two women, 41-year-old Lashun Rodgers and 31-year-old Lakrisha Isaac. In initial reports at the time, including […]
A newly released field report on a teen’s fatal fall from a Florida amusement park ride shows the attraction had been rendered “unsafe” due to manual adjustments, investigators said this week. Per a report from CBS News, Quest Engineering and Failure Analysis had been enlisted by the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to […]
The United States Coast Guard is searching for a man who jumped overboard on a Carnival cruise headed for Florida. TMZ reports the vessel was on its last leg of the voyage between Grand Turk to Port Canaveral, which is east of Orlando, Florida, when the man went overboard. A passenger told the outlet that she was […]
Jacksonville native YK Osiris has confirmed he’s looking to pay for the funeral of a 14-year-old boy who died in March after falling from a ride at an amusement park in Orlando. He floated the offer last week on Instagram. While chatting with TMZ at LAX on Tuesday, Osiris revealed he’s in dialogue with the family of Tyre Sampson, who died after falling out […]
YK Osiris wants to pay for the funeral of a 14-year-old boy who died this week after falling from a ride at an amusement park in Orlando, Florida. The Jacksonville native took to his Instagram Story on Saturday to reach out to his followers for help in contacting the family of Tyre Sampson, who fell to his death while on the Orlando Free […]
Orlando’s top health official was suspended this month after he slammed his staff’s “pathetic” vaccination rate and urged them to get the jab. The New York Times reports the suspension stems from a Jan. 4 email in which Dr. Raul Pino—director of the Florida Department of Health in Orange County—expressed concern over the number of staffers who had yet to be fully […]
