Prosecutors can call the accused killer in the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, “murderer” or “school shooter” during his trial but must avoid pejoratives like “animal” and “that thing,” a judge ruled on Friday. Attorneys for Nikolas Cruz had asked that their client only be referred to by his name …
TikTok star Marrissa Cloutier, 24, has been charged with child neglect after her Florida neighbors reported seeing her 5-year-old son outside alone after 10 p.m. this week. Cloutier, who has 2.2 million followers on TikTok as “Digitalprincxss” and is also well-known for her Twitch streams, allegedly left her son alone Tuesday night for more than …
The mother of one victim was well aware of the allegations against David Harris, but she was having an affair with him, prosecutors say.
A Florida dad who objects to wearing facemasks to protect against COVID-19 has been charged with aggravated child abuse after he allegedly assaulted a student at his daughter’s school. Dan Bauman, 50, walked his unmasked 10th grade daughter to school at Fort Lauderdale High School on Wednesday, as he had for four days previously since …
An elderly Florida woman found dead after a house fire in Daytona Beach over the weekend was the landlord and aunt of the man arrested and charged with her murder. Viola Miller, 70, had told the suspect — 33-year-old Deandre Anderson — to move out because she was afraid of him, a witness who lived …
Florida sheriff’s deputies are searching for a woman they say is the suspect in a fatal shooting in a hospital parking lot Saturday night. The Gadsden County Sheriff’s Office initially described Tyshebia Woods as a “person of interest” in the shooting, but an updated release Sunday afternoon called her a suspect. The shooting took place …
Firefighters battling a house fire in Daytona Beach, Florida, Sunday morning found the remains of an adult woman on the ground outside. Police had initially responded to the location for a domestic violence call but immediately called for fire assistance when they saw flames coming out of the house, WNDB reported. Firefighters found the woman’s …
A dramatic night in South Florida began with a 911 caller who reported witnessing a shooting — and that the shooter and an accomplice were trying to drag the victim’s body into a canal. Palm Beach County deputies set out for the location, but before they could arrive, the 911 caller told dispatchers that the …
A Florida man has been charged with shooting his girlfriend to death and then trying to drown a deputy who was trying to arrest him. Clearwater Police officers responding to a call about shots fired Friday afternoon found Shyanne Turner, 20, dead inside a Nissan Sentra. Detectives believe she was shot several blocks away before …
A 42-year-old Florida man was found guilty of first degree murder on Thursday, more than four years after the body of 12-year-old Naomi Jones was found in an Escambia County creek. Robert Letroy Howard, a convicted sex offender, was arrested just three days after fishermen found the body about five miles from the apartment complex …
A Florida woman has been arrested for the 2014 murder of her brother — after investigators uncovered his body buried in the backyard of a Dania Beach home. Darlene Ann Shoff-Brock is being held without bond on a single count of first-degree murder in the death of Donald Marks Shoff, WSVN reported. The Broward County …
Police found hundreds of pornographic videos — many of them involving children — on a Google account belonging to a Florida college student. Ethan Edlund, 19, turned himself in to the Chicago Police earlier this week after Daytona Beach Police concluded nearly a year of investigation. Edlund, a student at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, has been …
