Florida man arrested after strapping downed light pole to car roof on highway

Paul Phillips, whose long career as a Broadway stage manager included work on such notable productions as Sweet Charity, Mame, Chicago and, in 1967, the now historic Judy Garland at Home at the Palace, died Dec. 5 of natural causes in Naples, Florida. He was 95.

A Florida man who allegedly shot a burglar as he apparently begged for his life is facing an attempted murder charge. Corthoris Jenkins, 28, was playing video games in his North-Miami Dade apartment Tuesday when Xavier West allegedly broke into the efficiency unit, the Miami Herald reported.

A Florida woman was in critical condition Thursday in a Miami hospital, being treated for second- and third-degree burns, three days after a man allegedly poured gasoline on her and use a cigarette lighter to set her on fire, according to a report. Authorities said the suspect, identified as Luis Angel Quinonez, 53, of Lantana, became enraged after learning the 61-year-old woman had been having a “romantic relationship” with his stepfather, the Sun Sentinel of South Florida reported.

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A 62-year-old man was discovered desperately clinging to the hull of his capsized boat in the waters off the Florida coast on Sunday — about 24 hours after he was reported lost at sea, officials said. The crew onboard the container ship Angeles spotted Stuart Bee at around 11 a.m., some 86 miles off of Cape Canaveral, holding onto his 32-foot vessel, the U.S.

A Florida man who was trying to give away a car that belonged to his late grandmother ended up coming to another man's rescue, according to a report. “1997 Ford Crown Victoria - white - around 100k miles, almost all driven by grandma,” Cory Schneider posted on Reddit last week.

A young Florida woman is accused of making her son smoke a marijuana vape pen allegedly to help him sleep and improve his appetite, according to a recent report. Kiarra Clarisse, a 22-year-old woman from Merritt Island, was arrested on the morning of Nov.

This fight was anything but briefs. A droopy-drawered pugilist didn’t let losing his pants stop him from wrestling his adversary in a minutes-long caught-on-camera gas-station brawl.

A Florida man saved his dog in style, snatching it from the jaws of an alligator without dropping his cigar. The video of Richard Wilbanks, 74, went viral, showing him jump into a pond to pull his 3-month-old puppy, Gunner, away from the alligator.

A car chase in Florida led to a harrowing rescue Thursday when the fleeing driver crashed into a pond with two children in the back seat.   Deputies attempted to stop the car over a window tint violation on U.S. Highway 19 in Pasco County at 3:15 p.m., but the suspect drove into the nearby Ja-Mar mobile home park, passing several residents and hitting a dead end before losing control.

A Florida sheriff's agency has a secret list of students it believes could "fall into a life of crime" based on their grades and discipline histories, according to media reports.  The Pasco Sheriff's Office uses data from the Pasco County Schools district and the state Department of Children and Families to compile a list of children from middle and high schools, the Tampa Bay Times reported.  Elementary schools are not included.

A 65-year-old Florida man found dead in Jackson County this week had been mauled by a pack of stray dogs, according to local police.  Donald Ray Allen's body was found on the side of a road in the Bascom area near the Alabama state line. Allen was reportedly out for a walk when he was attacked, according to the Tallahassee Democrat.

Tyler Hubbard says his brief social media divorce from Florida George Line partner Brian Kelley was political.

Democratic Georgia Senate candidate Raphael Warnock fired back Wednesday at Republican critics who labeled him a “radical” this week in response to a resurfaced 2011 sermon in which the reverend declared “nobody can serve God and the military.” Republicans, including Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and Warnock’s opponent, Georgia Sen.

A Florida couple gave droves of drivers on a busy road near Tampa quite the peep show over the weekend.  Amber Gormley, 39, and Shawn McClelland, 30, were arrested Saturday after pulling over to the side of the road in the area of Whitney Road and US Highway 19 North in Largo to engage in sexual activity, authorities say.  According to an affidavit obtained by Fox News, it happened in an "open area location of a busy area where all drivers could see them having intercourse." (Pinellas County

A registered Democrat in Florida was arrested Saturday for allegedly threatening on social media to shoot Republican politicians Gov. Ron DeSantis and U.S.

A Florida man has been accused of contributing to the delinquency of his 8-year-old son after deputies say he had the kid tag along with him during a recent series of crimes. When Ernest McKnight III, 36, was asked by a detective why he had the child with him he replied,  “I was trying to toughen him up.

A surveillance video from a Florida restaurant shows a drunken man beating up two women. Hollywood police responded to a call at the Capone’s Flicker Lite Bar & Pizza Restaurant after a man entered the establishment, clearly inebriated, and became violent after staff refused him service.