January 9, 2024 Jewish college student with a ‘well-founded fear’ of antisemitism? Come learn in Florida instead Florida has been trying to attract first responders and teachers from other states. Now, it wants Jewish college students afraid “of antisemitic persecution.”
January 5, 2024 Man guilty of crime involving synthetic opioid ‘equally as potent, if not more potent, than fentanyl’ A man in Florida pleaded guilty to a charge of participating in a conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a synthetic opioid, protonitazene.
January 2, 2024 ‘Illegal immigrant who has been known to leave the country when in trouble’ arrested for killing teen girlfriend A girl was shot to death and her boyfriend, a person of interest, disappeared. Authorities said he claimed he was lost in the woods for two weeks. Now, he’s under arrest.
December 15, 2023 Hot stuff: $10 million worth of narcotics found in jalapeno paste shipment The feds at a border crossing near San Diego discovered more than $10 million worth of hard narcotics hidden in a shipment of jalapeno paste.
December 5, 2023 63 migrants crammed into rustic wooden boat intercepted, 5 who’d been deported for felonies arrested Authorities intercepted a “yola”-type vessel with 63 undocumented migrants on board and stopped them from entering Puerto Rico.
December 4, 2023 Former Colombian officer charged with bombing attack that injured 3 U.S. Army soldiers The indictment against a medically discharged Colombian Army officer was unsealed as the suspect, extradited to Miami, made his first court appearance.
November 28, 2023 ‘Wear chemical resistant gloves when handling’: Unsafe shipment of vaginal tightening gel syringes stopped Customs officials were able to stop an unsafe shipment from China labeled “Vaginal Tightening Gel” before thousands of syringes got into the hands, or gloves, of Americans.
November 27, 2023 Lawmaker wants to ban Florida, a former slave state, from paying reparations to descendants of slaves A lawmaker in Florida wants to make sure no government money in the former Confederate state goes to pay reparations to the descendants of slaves.
November 17, 2023 DeSantis administration loses another round on drag shows, sued over banning Students for Justice in Palestine Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his administration are facing two challenges and they’re not related to his presidential campaign.
November 15, 2023 Biden: The war in Gaza will stop ‘when Hamas no longer maintains the capacity’ to murder President Joe Biden said the Middle East war between Israel and Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip will not end until Hamas is defeated. He answered questions from reporters during a news conference.
November 8, 2023 Palestinian woman aiming for ‘Israel school’ rams car into Radical Hebrew Israelites building instead A call to police about “a vehicle striking a building” turned out to be more of a hate crime than an accident.
October 21, 2023 Israel to increase attacks on Hamas-controlled Gaza ‘in the next stages of the war’ The Associated Press is reporting Israel plans to increase strikes on Gaza very shortly. The news service quoted an Israeli military spokesperson who said the strikes would begin Saturday.
October 20, 2023 Swaying public opinion by releasing 2 of 200 hostages. Will the world fall for humanitarian Hamas? Hamas freed an American woman and her teenage daughter who they took hostage. A spokesperson for the Israeli army wants to make sure Hamas doesn’t fool the world.
October 19, 2023 Man accused of helping himself at 100+ Home Depot stores around the country Police near Pittsburgh say they caught a man involved in organized retail thefts at Home Depot stores across the country.
October 19, 2023 Like the leaves, gas prices slowly falling The price to fill up has been dropping like the leaves, this fall. That’s despite global tensions causing ripples through the oil market.
October 18, 2023 BBC criticized for avoiding ‘terrorists,’ investigating reporters’ social media sympathetic to Hamas Reporting during a war is never easy but the British Broadcasting Corporation, or BBC, has come under fire for a decision it made and for some of its reporters’ social media activities.
October 17, 2023 Crash course on education for the 21st century: A master’s in witchcraft, magic and the occult There’s an unusual new option for people who want to further their education with a master’s degree: Magic and Occult Science.
October 13, 2023 Money pouring in to pay Mary Lou Retton’s medical bills The family of Mary Lou Retton has raised $400,000 to pay her medical bills, and there could be a lot more on the way.
October 13, 2023 DeSantis declares emergency in Florida over Israel, state to invest $25 million in Israel Bonds The state of Florida has a large Jewish population and Gov. Ron DeSantis signed an executive order to help state residents who are in Israel get home.
October 4, 2023 New poll has Haley over DeSantis among Republicans in New Hampshire, but Trump far ahead of both There’s a bit of a shakeup in the Republican presidential race. Nikki Haley has jumped way ahead of Ron DeSantis in a poll of likely Republican primary voters in New Hampshire.
October 4, 2023 Airport unaware: TSA busted flyers with firearms 19.8 times a day on average from July to September New numbers are in from the Transportation Security Administration and the agency is on pace to confiscate more weapons from potential flyers at airports this year than last.
September 26, 2023 Family who fled to US over right to homeschool children faces deportation after 15 years A nonprofit group is taking up the case of a family it says faces deportation from the U.S., 15 years after arriving for the right of parents to homeschool their children.
September 18, 2023 Son of ‘El Chapo,’ nicknamed ‘the Mouse,’ pleads not guilty to drug, money laundering A son of former Sinaloa cartel leader Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán pleaded not guilty to five criminal charges Monday, days after being extradited from Mexico.
April 18, 2023 Couple’s choreographed suicide by guillotine ends with heads rolling into fire altar A couple in India — more like Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette than Romeo and Juliet — committed suicide using something like a guillotine to decapitate themselves, and they added the element of fire.
March 7, 2023 ‘Boy Meets World’ actor Ben Savage trying to move from sitcom to Congress A former child star wants to leave “La La Land” to work in the nation’s capital. Actor Ben Savage has made it official he’s running for Congress.
March 7, 2023 Woman crashes into bakery, goes next door for manicure: ‘She’s like, ‘Yeah, I’m fine.” A woman in Canada had an unusual reaction after slamming her Jeep into a bakery. She walked over to get her nails done at the salon next door.
March 2, 2023 Montana rep files bill to ban blood donations from people vaccinated against COVID-19 A lawmaker is worried about blood transfusions from people who’ve been vaccinated against COVID-19, so he filed a bill to end donations from people who got the shot.
March 1, 2023 Remains of mummified man, more than 500 years old, turn up in delivery man’s backpack The remains of a mummified man who lived before Christopher Columbus discovered the New World have been found in a very unexpected place: a delivery man’s backpack.
February 2, 2023 Fast food restaurant tries banning teens, pays the price with poor publicity Sometimes there are dress codes to enter a place. Or age restrictions. And even requiring young people to have their parents with them. But one fast-food franchise may have taken the cake.
January 6, 2023 DeSantis sends National Guard to Fla. Keys after Biden’s tougher stance on migrant influx So many migrants have been descending on a southern U.S. border — not the one with a fence — that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed an executive order getting the National Guard involved.
December 30, 2022 Trailblazing journalist Barbara Walters, 1st female network anchor, has died Trailblazing television news broadcaster Barbara Walters has died at the age of 93 Friday, according to ABC News, her home of more than 40 years.
November 25, 2022 Sex battery suspect told girl to ‘hide’ with him, then ran 800 miles away, detective says Perhaps even more disturbing than the details of this case, authorities said, “The latest of many reported incidents occurred within the last 16 hours.”