A member of a male choir group inadvertently beat his colleagues in a Pride parade in South Florida on Saturday, killing one of the group’s choirs and seriously injuring another, authorities said. Wilton Manors Vice Mayor Paul Rolli and Fort Lauderdale Mayor Dean Trantalis said early investigations revealed it was an accident. The 77-year-old driver … Read more
One person was killed and another seriously injured after a pickup truck crashed into the crowd at the start of a Pride parade in South Florida on Saturday night, officials said. Florida’s Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried, who attended the The Stonewall Pride Parade event, along with US Representatives Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Ted Deutch, confirmed … Read more
Urbanist, writer and professor Richard Florida. (Photo: Daria Malysheva) Reports of coastal city deaths are grossly exaggerated. At least that’s the view of renowned urbanist and author Richard Florida, who spoke to GeekWire editor Monica Nickelsburg earlier this week about the future of cities as part of the annual Crosscut Festival. “I’m just amazed at … Read more
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The woman, featured in a viral video where she fingered another shopper and then coughed in the face at a Jacksonville mall, was sentenced to 29 days in prison for assault. The ruling ended Thursday with hours of testimony and questions at the trial of Debra Jo Michele Hunter, the woman from … Read more
A reservoir in Florida containing nearly 400 million gallons of sewage from a former phosphate mine leaked Saturday and sparked hundreds of evacuations, authorities said. The crews “did their best to control the runoff of contaminated water into a creek at Piney Point, Florida, the site of a former phosphate mine south of Tampa,” said … Read more
The young hacker, accused of being the mastermind behind a high-profile Twitter account violation last year, pleaded guilty in a Florida court on Tuesday and agreed to serve three years in juvenile prison. Eighteen-year-old Graham Ivan Clark was charged with fraud after compromising the Twitter accounts of Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, former President Barack Obama … Read more
Three people, including a boy, died and a woman was injured after a small plane collided with a car in South Florida. The crash occurred shortly after the plane took off from North Perry Airport in Pembroke Pines, a town in southwest Broward County. The plane cut a power line and then crashed in a … Read more