Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed his first death warrant since taking office.
DeSantis signed the death warrant Tuesday for convicted serial killer and rapist Bobby Joe Long, the governor's office announced Wednesday.
Long was apprehended in 1984 and admitted to killing at least 10 women throughout the Tampa Bay area. He was convicted and sentenced to death in 1985.
Now 65, Long also claimed to have raped about 40 women in... [...]
Authorities say a man who was sentenced to 23 years in federal prison for armed carjacking is back in custody after being accidentally released from prison.
Brevard County Sheriff's spokesman Tod Goodyear tells the Orlando Sentinel that 29-year-old Cedrick Gant turned himself over to U.S. Marshals in Orlando on Monday afternoon.
He was sentenced in February after pleading guilty to carjacking.
Records show Gant was transferred from... [...]
Lately, Donald Trump fans have enjoyed attacking left-leaning Americans. Last year, for instance, Miami-area resident Cesar Sayoc sent pipe bombs to prominent liberals across the nation and went to jail. Today another South Florida man was arrested, this time for allegedly threatening to kill four Democrats.
Federal authorities today announced that John Kless, a 49-year-old resident of Tamarac in Broward County, called three... [...]
Attorneys for the suspect in last year's Florida school massacre will ask a judge to let them question his former mental health counselors without prosecutors present.
Attorneys for Nikolas Cruz are scheduled Thursday to ask Judge Elizabeth Scherer for permission to question the counselors without notifying prosecutors or allowing their attendance. The counselors treated Cruz before the Feb. 14, 2018, massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas... [...]
MIAMI (AP) — A former Miami police officer has been sentenced to 15 ½ years in prison for her involvement in a drug trafficking conspiracy.
Court records show that Schonton Harris was sentenced Wednesday in Miami federal court. She previously pleaded guilty to conspiring with other officers to possess cocaine.
Investigators say Harris provided police protection for what she believed were large shipments of cocaine on three... [...]
