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Woman Fed Up With Waiting at the DMV Kicks Cop in the Nuts
Ashley Feinberg · 12/11/15 03:38PMWoman Stabbed During a Fight at Art Basel, Onlookers Thought It Was Performance Art
Melissa Cronin · 12/05/15 11:55AMJoin Donald Trump's Open Casting Call for 'Beautiful Children'
Melissa Cronin · 11/28/15 02:08PM
Here’s a lovely update from The Tampa Bay Times in its writeup about the Donald Trump rally in Sarasota, Florida on Saturday:
Taylor Berman · 11/12/15 01:43PM
Nouman Raja, the Palm Beach Gardens police officer who fatally shot Corey Jones in October, has been fired. A criminal investigation into the shooting is ongoing, according to a Palm Beach Gardens spokeswoman.
Florida College Wants to Make Professors Underbid Each Other on Salary
Hamilton Nolan · 10/30/15 08:34AMPrize Show Horse Found Slaughtered and Filleted on Florida Farm
Gabrielle Bluestone · 10/27/15 08:21AMReport: Black Man Killed By Police Officer in Florida Never Fired His Weapon
Brendan O'Connor · 10/21/15 11:04PM
The family of a black man shot and killed by a Florida police officer on Sunday have, according to the New York Times, reportedly been told by prosecutors that Corey Jones, whose gun was found on the ground near where he was shot, never fired his weapon before his death.
Florida Black Man Shot and Killed By Plainclothes Police Officer
Brendan O'Connor · 10/20/15 08:16PM
Early Sunday morning, NBC News reports, a plainclothes police officer in an unmarked vehicle shot and killed Corey Jones, a black man, off Interstate 95 in Florida.
Fatal Shooting Causes Panic At Florida Zombie Festival [UPDATE]
John Walker · 10/18/15 12:41PM
Fatal gunfire broke out during a zombie-themed street festival in Fort Myers, Fla., Saturday night, the Associated Press reports.
Inspiring Fugitive Couple Prolongs Police Standoff to Squeeze in One Last Fuck
Andy Cush · 10/16/15 10:40AM
When police arrived at a Jacksonville, Fla., birthday party Wednesday in search of Ryan Bautista, the 34-year-old fugitive and his beau engaged them in a 6 1/2 hour standoff before they were taken into custody. The reported reason? They wanted to make sweet love to each other one last time. Awwwwwww!
"I'm Fucking Drunk": Woman's Slurred Periscope Broadcast Leads to DUI Arrest
Taylor Berman · 10/12/15 03:20PMOn Saturday night, a Florida woman broadcast her alleged drunken driving escapades onto Periscope, Twitter’s live video app. “I am drunk,” Whitney Marie Beall said at one point. “This is horrible!”
Allegedly Stoned Man Arrested for DUI Tells Cops His Dog Was Driving
Taylor Berman · 10/12/15 12:40PM
Just before puking and just after allegedly crashing his car into a house, Florida resident Reliford Cooper reportedly told the police arresting him on DUI charges that he was not the person driving his car. In fact, Cooper said, a person wasn’t behind the wheel at all. “My dog was driving that car,” he said, according to WFTS.
There Have Been More Than 1,000 Mass Shootings in the United States Since Sandy Hook
Brendan O'Connor · 10/11/15 06:55PM
According to the Guardian, there have been at least 1,000 mass shootings in this country Sandy Hook, the bloody milestone having been passed in Inglis, Florida, just a few hours after Chris Harper Mercer killed himself and eight other people in Roseburg, Oregon.
School District to Pay $600,000 Over Death of Teens Who Were Hypnotized by Principal
Taylor Berman · 10/07/15 10:03AM
Four years after one of its principals hypnotized dozens of high school students, three of whom died within days, a Florida school district has agreed to pay $600,000 to the deceased teenager’s families.
"Yes, I Drank the Goat's Blood," Says Florida's Pagan, Libertarian, "Genius-Level" Senate Candidate
Jay Hathaway · 10/05/15 11:00AMAugustus Sol Invictus, Floridian former lawyer and current Libertarian candidate for Senate, once described himself as “of genius intellect,” “God’s gift to humankind where the English language is concerned,” and “everything you ever wanted to be.” Critics describe him as “a self-proclaimed fascist” and “absolute insanity.” One time, he killed a goat and drank its blood.
Hudson Hongo · 09/22/15 07:15PM
On Tuesday, a Florida judge decided that the case against Matthew Apperson, who allegedly tried to kill George Zimmerman in a roadway shooting this May, will go to trial. According to Reuters, Zimmerman testified today that he saw Apperson and the barrel of a gun and then heard “a bang and a ringing in my ears.”
Wily Raccoon Tricks Good-Natured Hippie Into Loving Her
Rich Juzwiak · 09/22/15 01:50PM
Say you’re a wild raccoon and you want to use the Precious Moments-esque saucer eyes you’ve been gifted with to trick a human into feeding you regularly. You could pick just anyone, or you could be efficient and choose a hippie who will let you walk all over her (or in this case, roll a stone over her glass door for sometimes hours at a time, causing physical damage to her property). What do you do? If you’re the wily motherfucker above, you go with the hippie and you roll your way to viral fame while eating the profits.
Cops: "Monster" Disemboweled Girlfriend After She Screamed Ex’s Name During Drunken Sex
Taylor Berman · 09/21/15 04:41PM
Early Sunday morning, police responding to a call from a Sunrise, Florida, apartment found a 24-year-old man crying on his bathroom floor next to his girlfriend’s body. He was surrounded by both the woman’s blood and her “body tissue.”