The Pigeon Express
An 8-year-old boy accidentally shot and killed a 1-year-old girl and injured a 2-year-old girl at a Florida motel, authorities said. The boy’s father left the gun holstered in his Pensacola motel room closet. After he left the room, his son found it and fired a round that passed through and killed the baby and […]
A New Zealand resident spotted a “bizarre but very cool” blue spiral above her house following a SpaceX launch on Sunday (June 19). Clare Rehill photographed the spiral in the sky above Queenstown, a town on New Zealand’s South Island. She posted(opens in new tab) the photo on Twitter early in the morning her time […]
Former heavyweight boxer Mike Tyson punched a fellow airline passenger after the person “threw a water bottle at him,” Tyson’s spokesperson has said. Video taken on the plane shows Tyson leaning over his seat as he lands repeated punches an unidentified man. A spokesperson for the boxing Hall of Famer confirmed Tyson had an “incident […]
A Florida woman is accused of faking an armed burglary report to avoid getting in trouble for tardiness at work, authorities said. Polk County sheriff’s deputies arrested Tampa Airport Transportation Security Administration Officer Taleta Collier, 34, of Winter Haven, on charges of criminal use of personal identification and uttering a false document in connection with […]
A Florida bride and her wedding caterer have been arrested and accused of lacing wedding food, including lasagna, with marijuana and causing several guests to become sick. Bride Danya Shea Svoboda, 42, and caterer Joycelyn Montrinice Bryant, 31, have been charged with culpable negligence, delivery of marijuana and violating Florida’s Anti-Tampering Act, the affidavits say. […]
A Florida landfill worker died after a colleague in a bulldozer accidentally ran over the port-a-potty he was using, authorities said. The Polk County Sheriff’s Office and Polk County Fire Rescue responded to a report of an accident at the Polk County North Central Landfill. Workers told first responders that Aaron Henderson had been crushed […]
Nearly 1,100 homes were evacuated as firefighting crews continue to battle several dangerous wildfires across three counties in the Florida Panhandle, officials said. The most prominent blaze, the Bertha Swamp Road Fire, expanded over the weekend and remains a threat, according to Governor Ron DeSantis. “The Bertha Swamp (Road) Fire is approximately 9,000 acres and […]
A man stopped for speeding in central Florida blamed Vladimir Putin for driving too fast and getting a speeding ticket. The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office pulled over a man in Palm Coast on February 24 for going 50 miles-per-hour in a 30 mph zone. Florida man blames Putin for why he was driving 50 in […]
A woman fell to her death on Sunday when a draw bridge in West Palm Beach, Florida, was raised as she was walking across with her bike, according to police. The woman, who has not been identified, was walking across the Royal Park Bridge, which stretches from Lakeview Avenue in West Palm Beach and connects […]
Jack Sweeney, a 19-year-old from Florida, rejected a $5,000 offer from Elon Musk to delete his Twitter account that tracks the billionaire’s private jet. ElonJet has over 150,000 followers, and uses a bot that Sweeney developed to monitor Musk’s flights. The feed then tweets out when and where the plane takes off or lands and […]
A teenager who was driving under the influence of either drugs or alcohol crashed into another vehicle at “a high rate of speed,” killing six people in Palm Beach County, officials said. The 17-year-old driver suffered minor injuries in the crash late Thursday near Delray Beach, according to a Palm Beach County Sheriff’s incident report. […]
A South Florida cook lived a nightmare for five days after the cops took him for a fugitive with the same name, similar looks and almost the same birthday. Leonardo Silva Oliveira, 26, was wanted for probation violation on charges out of Boca Raton. But on January 20, authorities arrested another man named Leonardo Silva […]