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Family Begged For Missing Teen’s Safe Return, Then Learned It Was All A Lie

Investigators found “an alarming amount of red flags” early on, with witness statements contradicting the 17-year-old boy’s story.

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Florida cat burglar who broke into more than 200 homes reveals how she got away with it for so long

Jennifer Gomez, now 41, was arrested in 2011 after a lengthy investigation into a rash of home burglaries

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Florida official's body went undiscovered for 24 minutes outside Capitol meeting room last year

A Florida official was dead or dying in a hallway in the governor’s office complex for 24 minutes before anyone noticed he had collapsed after leaving a meeting last year

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DeSantis campaign wanted guns banned at election night event in Tampa, city employee says

TAMPA, Fla. — Emails suggest that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ campaign made two requests of the Tampa Convention Center, the downtown venue that hosted the governor’s November election night celebration: no guns and no fingers pointing at the campaign for seeking such a prohibition.

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Who are Constance Marten and Mark Gordon: Everything we know about couple missing with newborn

The family has been missing for almost two weeks

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Sex offender missing with aristocrat’s daughter ‘raped neighbour while armed with garden shears’

Mark Gordon served 20 years in a US prison for his crimes

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Who are Constance Marten and Mark Gordon: Everything we know about couple missing with newborn

The family has been missing for almost two weeks

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Charges dismissed after Florida health department worker who said state was manipulating COVID data reaches agreement with state

MIAMI — Former Florida Department of Health data analyst turned whistleblower Rebekah Jones reached an agreement with state prosecutors to dismiss the criminal hacking charges against her. As a condition of the dismissal, Jones admitted she was guilty.

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Broward County Sheriff Gregory Tony didn’t lie on forms about past killing, his lawyer tells ethics panel

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Broward County Sheriff Gregory Tony hadn’t withheld vital information from state law enforcement forms that would have revealed he was involved in a fatal shooting when he was a teenager, his attorney argued to a state ethics commission.

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Sheriff Gregory Tony faces more scrutiny from ethics panel over lies, omissions on forms

Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony must now decide whether to fight a decision by a state ethics panel — which for the second time in recent months agreed that further review is warranted to look into accusations he gave false information on official forms, his attorney said Monday.

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South Florida judge dismisses first case brought by DeSantis’ office of election crimes, calling it overreach of power

MIAMI — A Miami judge approved a motion to dismiss Friday in the case against Robert Lee Wood, 56, the first of the 17 people charged with election fraud in a statewide roundup in August by Gov. Ron DeSantis’ new Election Crimes Unit.

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Florida Corrections Officers Paralyzed A Man, Then Left Him in Solitary Confinement

Craig Ridley died after corrections officers paralyzed him in a beating then left him without medical care for days.

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Teen who 'hacked homecoming votes' to crown herself queen is suing police and her school

Emily Grover, 18, was arrested along with her mother for allegedly hacking into private student records to cast hundreds of fake votes - she did not contest the charges which were eventually dropped

Daily Mirror

20 are accused of illegally voting in Florida. DeSantis calls it ‘the opening salvo’ in cases

Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Thursday that state agents were arresting 20 Florida felons who he said voted illegally in 2020, declaring it the first step in what he promised would be an overdue effort to ensure election integrity.

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Did a police boat fatally strike a snorkeler in the Florida Keys? Inquiry launched to find out

MIAMI — Investigators have launched an inquiry into whether a Florida fish and wildlife police boat struck and killed a snorkeler in the Florida Keys last week.

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‘This can save lives.’ Purple Alert, for adults with disabilities, added to Florida system for finding the missing

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Floridians may notice a new color of alert flashing across highway message boards soon.

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Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony could lose his police certification after Florida panel says there’s probable cause

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Broward’s sheriff could lose his police certification, officials said Tuesday.

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Gov. DeSantis still hasn't made decision over sheriff's lies

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said 100 days ago that he would review a state report that a county sheriff had lied about killing another teenager 30 years ago

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South Florida prison guards charged with murder in beating death of 60-year-old inmate

Three corrections officers face charges of second-degree murder over death of 60-year-old

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