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BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) – A driver was caught reaching 118 mph just before a suspected DUI arrest in Florida. A deputy at Brevard County Sheriff’s Office discovered a speeding SUV on Interstate 95 early Sunday morning, according to a Facebook post from the Sheriff’s Office. The Tampas Morke Shop was attacked. The employer says he only sells legally approved products. The vehicle was recorded at 118 mph just before the driver hit the brakes and pulled it to the median median. The adjutant reported the smell of alcohol emanating from the driver’s window during a traffic stop. The driver…
NEW ORLEANS – After 10 men escaped from a New Orleans prison by sliding through a hole behind a toilet and expanding the wall, the six continued running Monday, offering a reward of up to $20,000 for information leading to the capture of each escape.On Sunday, the FBI increased its compensation from $5,000 to $10,000 per escape, with Crimestoppers’ compensation increasing from $2,000 to $5,000, while the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives offering $5,000. The latest arrest came late Monday when fourth fugitive, Gary Price, was taken into custody.FBI special agent Jonathan Trapp said at a press conference…
On the way there. Keeping distance with the Maple Leafs in the second round of the Eastern Conference, the Florida Panthers treated their Division opponents in a 6-1 victory in Game 7 at Scottia Bank Arena on Sunday night. A quick turnaround, the team will now shift their focus to the Eastern Conference Finals as only the Carolina Hurricanes are in their third Stanley Cup final. “You’re going to stay there,” defensive man Aaron Eckbrad said shortly after he arrived in Raleigh on Monday. “Like you said, we had some big gaps. We’ve had experience in this exact situation as…
Last year there was a storm of protests in an orange red for gun safety when the state decorates the bridge with rainbow lights for Pride Moon. Instead, Florida’s Department of Transport, which manages the state’s bridge, ruled it as a “Summer of Freedom,” sought only red, white and blue lights from anniversary until July 4th, sweeping out other memorial plans. Hopefully the same this year. As of February 1, FDOT “was quietly passing the rules declaring the color and sequence of lighting as the default scheme of red, white and blue. Lighting is “limited to government holiday recognition, commemoration…
FREMONT, Ohio — The two women and a 5-year-old girl died after a train struck a family while on a railway bridge in the north of the Ohio River, authorities said Monday.The sonar-equipped crew were scrutinizing the Sandusky River the night before finding the girl’s body near the bridge on Monday, Fremont Mayor Danny Sanchez said.The family, originally from Fort Wayne, Indiana, was on a fishing trip along the Sandusky River. They were on the bridge on Sunday night when the trains reached a span, Sanchez said. The one-year-old girl was rescued and in danger, city officials said Monday.It is…
As we prepare to honor the brave men and women who will protect this anniversary, we must also confront how the intense summer heat hinders their abilities. Bella Kubach (Citizen Climate Lobby)Last year, NASA nominated the summer that recorded the hottest summer on the planet in 2024. Experts suggest that this summer may last for nearly a second. Already known for its humid humidity, Florida saw a dangerous heat wave that was tense on infrastructure, public health systems and military facilities last summer. As this year has not changed, we must take action to keep people on the frontline safe.…
When a tall Mexican Navy ship struck the Brooklyn Bridge, it was piloting in a turbulent ocean. The tide had just turned, and a fast current was climbing the East River, with a 10 mph wind beginning.Such dangers are easily handled by experienced captains, but narrow, curved channels can be combined from the jagged Manhattan skyline and vortex-like vortexes to create difficult passages.In the case of the 300-foot Cuauhtemoc, two sailors were killed, and 19 people were injured when the training ship hit the iconic bridge on Saturday evening, defeating three masts of the Domino-like ship as they drifted towards…
Liberal groups opposed it, but conservatives praise the Trump administration’s latest plans to give housing programs such as Section 8 more control.The proposal cuts the Federal Housing and Urban Development Division (HUD) and sends money to the state to run them. It also needs to reduce rental assistance by 40%, introduce a two-year limit on rental assistance for healthy adults, and terminate the housing voucher program.Essentially, Florida will have more control over how HUD dollars are used through block grants.Much of the rise in HUD spending over the past few years has been under the Biden administration during Covid.In April…
TAMPA — When Jimmy Gardner was arrested 18 months ago on trafficking allegations, Tampa officials quickly promoted his past illegal incarceration and ties with Democratic politicians.Police and prosecutors accused Gardner, 58, of offering to pay a 16-year-old girl for sex, choking her when she resisted his progress. The news of his arrest has become a small political sensation. It also attracted the attention of federal prosecutors.But last month they dropped it. Ultimately, the government lost confidence in the credibility of the accuser who admitted at a pretrial meeting that he lied in all statements to investigators at the previous meeting,…
STARK, Fla. — A Skyal murderer once scrutinized the Spanti Alkiller for possible links to the OJ Simpson case, which riveted the country in the 1990s, was executed in Florida Thursday for the murder of a woman who died in a room at a Tampa Motel.Glenn Rogers, 62, was declared deadly injected at a Florida prison near Stark and died at 6:16pm, authorities said. He was convicted in Florida in 1995 of the murder of Tina Marie Cribbs, a 34-year-old mother whom he met at a bar.He also handed out another death sentence in California for the 1995 stranglehold murder.…