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Did George Zimmerman Really Get Punched Last Weekend?
Hudson Hongo · 08/04/16 09:46PMDonald Trump Helpfully Summarizes Last Year's Trump Controversies for Forgetful Public
Hudson Hongo · 08/03/16 07:00PMKeeping track of Donald Trump’s seemingly endless stream of fuck-ups and “fuck yous” can be challenging for even the most dogged reporter, so it was as a great public service on Wednesday that Trump recalled some of his greatest hits at a rally in Florida—while additionally claiming he could have stopped 9/11.
Every Eighth Home in Florida Could Be Underwater, Literally
Hamilton Nolan · 08/02/16 03:33PMAlan Grayson's Ex-Wife Accuses Congressman of Repeated Domestic Abuse Over Twenty Years
Brendan O'Connor · 07/26/16 09:08AMState Investigating Police Shooting of an Unarmed Black Man Who Was Lying On The Ground With His Hands Up, Helping His Autistic Patient
Marina Galperina · 07/21/16 02:00PMVideo Shows Unarmed Black Man Pleading With Arms Raised Before Getting Shot by Police
Hudson Hongo · 07/20/16 07:00PMReport: Rich Kid Democratic Challenger for Marco Rubio's Senate Seat Vastly Overstated His Business Experience
Brendan O'Connor · 06/23/16 04:12PMA investigative report from CBS Miami into two-term Democratic representative Patrick Murphy—who is running to take Senator Marco Rubio’s seat from the Republican Party—has cast significant doubt on Murphy’s repeated claims that he worked as a Certified Public Accountant and owned his own business. According to the report, however, Murphy never actually worked as a CPA, and his father bought the company that he only briefly worked for, and claimed to own.
Divers Recover Body of Toddler Attacked by Alligator at Disney Resort
Hudson Hongo · 06/15/16 04:16PMAlligator Drags Off 2-Year-Old at Disney Resort in Orlando
Hudson Hongo · 06/14/16 11:13PMFlorida AG Personally Solicited Donation from Trump Before Dropping Trump University Fraud Investigation
Brendan O'Connor · 06/07/16 07:18AMFlorida’s attorney general, Pam Bondi, has confirmed that she personally solicited a political contribution from Donald Trump at the time her office was considering prosecuting Trump University for fraud, the Associated Press reports. A Trump family foundation gave a nonprofit controlled by Bondi $25,000, and Bondi dropped the case.
Former Cop Charged in Florida Man's Shooting Death Fired as Victim Was Running Away
Brendan O'Connor · 06/02/16 10:05AMPlainclothes Cop Charged With Manslaughter, Attempted Murder in Shooting Death of Florida Man
Brendan O'Connor · 06/01/16 05:20PMOn Wednesday, a grand jury indicted former Palm Beach Gardens police officer Nouman Raja on charges of manslaughter and attempted first-degree murder in the shooting death of Corey Jones. Raja shot Jones on the side of a highway in the early hours of October 18, 2015. Jones, an area musician, was returning home from a gig.
Stripping Libertarian Candidate Exercises Right to Bare Arms, Legs on Live TV
Hudson Hongo · 05/29/16 06:30PMThis Goofy Repository of Florida Farm Crimes Is My New Favorite Facebook Page
Andy Cush · 05/16/16 04:00PMI don’t know about you, but when I log onto Facebook, I’m hoping to see pregnancy announcements from couples I went to high school with, self-congratulatory status updates from my professional peers, and photos of the latest gator crimes and horse frauds being perpetrated in the Sunshine State. That’s why the Florida Agricultural Crimes Intelligence Unit is my new favorite page on the social network.
Florida Cop Suspended Over Racist Instagram Posts
Andy Cush · 04/26/16 12:19PMRussian Hacker Accessed Email of Palm Beach Sheriff's Office Investigator Accused of Surveilling Journalists
Andy Cush · 04/22/16 01:44PMA Russian hacker who claims to have broken into the personal computer of a Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office investigator named Mark Lewis did have access to Lewis’s email account at one point, an email released to Gawker this week shows. The hacker, who goes only by the pseudonym BadWolf, previously claimed to have obtained a document from Lewis’s computer that seemed to implicate Lewis and the PBSO in the surveillance of local journalists.
Florida Congressional Candidate Penned Gross Song(?) About Banging a Very Drunk Woman
Ashley Feinberg · 04/19/16 01:32PMBefore he was a star on the rise in the world of Florida politics, State Senator Darren Soto was apparently a member George Washington University Law School’s Law Revue, a “musical and sketch comedy show,” which sounds almost as terrible as the Florida House of Representatives. In 2006, three short years after he authored a Law Revue song in which he lamented, “Back when we were both 1-L’s you were in my section/I spent every day in Con Law hiding my erection,” he was elected to the Florida House of Representatives. The good people of Florida reelected him for several more terms before moving on to the State Senate in 2012 (and for which he was reelected in 2014).
Rick Scott, Universe's Biggest Jerk, Releases Attack Ad Against Woman Who Confronted Him in Starbucks
Andy Cush · 04/08/16 04:13PMGOP Senate Candidate Deletes Scientology Ties From His Wikipedia Page
Ashley Feinberg · 04/06/16 10:30AMFlorida Rep. David Jolly wants to take Marco Rubio’s seat in the Senate. Unfortunately for him, he also has a long history of ties to the Church of Scientology. Which is why his campaign has been hard at work scrubbing Jolly’s Wikipedia page of any mention to the elaborate pyramid scheme of a religion, it recently confirmed to BuzzFeed News.