The Pigeon Express
A woman walking her dog was attacked and injured by a bear, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC). The woman, who wasn’t named by wildlife officials, was attacked by a black bear on January 13 in DeBary, a city north of Orlando. The FWC and the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office responded […]
United States comedian Bob Saget, who rose to fame in the 1980s and 1990s for starring in the sitcom Full House, has died at the age of 65. Saget was found unresponsive in his room at the Ritz-Carlton Orlando, Grande Lakes, on Sunday, according to police. He was pronounced dead at the scene. A statement […]
A Florida letter carrier stole about 4,000 pieces of mail, almost all greeting cards from a retirement community, looking for cash in a month-long theft spree uncovered by her own parents. Miranda Delee Farleigh, 25, admitted “that she had an addiction to heroin and that the addiction had caused her criminal behavior,” according to a […]
Rapper Kodak Black was arrested on a trespassing charge on Saturday in South Florida, authorities said. The Broward Sheriff’s Office said Black was taken into custody in his hometown of Pompano Beach early morning, according to the South Florida SunSentinel. Black, whose legal name is Bill Kapri, later posted bond and was released, the newspaper […]
A cleaning worker was seriously injured by a tiger at the Naples Zoo in Florida on Wednesday after the man apparently put his arm into the animal’s enclosure, authorities said. Eko, an 8-year-old Malayan tiger, was shot by a sheriff’s deputy and died, the zoo said. Deputies were called to the zoo, which was closed […]
Two children were killed and four others were hospitalized Monday afternoon after a hit-and-run crash in Broward County, authorities in South Florida said. The ages of the children hospitalized range from 1 to 10, Stephen Gollan, battalion chief at Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue, said at a news conference. “There were four of them that were […]
A Florida woman whose trip to the salon ended with her losing a limb has reached a settlement with the salon. Clara Shellman said she developed an infection after a pedicure at Tammy’s Nails 2 in Tampa, and had to have her leg amputated when the infection spread from her toe to her lower leg. […]
A British woman who worked as an estate agent in Florida has been shot dead while preparing to show a property, allegedly by an evicted tenant. Sara Trost, 40, from Southend, Essex, was shot on Thursday while sitting in her Jeep outside a house in Coral Springs, 40 miles north of Miami, at about 12.33pm […]
A Florida woman has been arrested and charged for allegedly poisoning her partner. According to a police report from the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office, Alvis Parrish, 54, is accused of giving her boyfriend a drink spiked with quetiapine tablets. The report shows deputies found a bottle of lemonade with a powdery substance at the bottom inside […]
Scientists are warning of dramatic changes at one of the biggest glaciers in Antarctica, potentially within the next five to 10 years. They say a floating section at the front of Thwaites Glacier that until now has been relatively stable could “shatter like a car windscreen”. US and UK researchers are currently engaged in an […]
A huge consignment of cocaine worth $1 million was recovered by the Border Patrol agents from the sea near Florida Keys. According to law enforcing agents, a “good samaritan” informed them that packets containing the drug were floating on the water. There were nearly 70 pounds of cocaine floating on the sea water. US Coast […]
A computer scientist who claims he invented Bitcoin has won a court case allowing him to keep a cache of the cryptocurrency worth billions of dollars. A jury rejected claims that Craig Wright’s former business partner was due half of the assets. As a result Mr Wright will retain 1.1 million Bitcoin, worth $54 billion. […]