WATCH: Pulse-pounding moment Florida cops swerve to knock man off motorbike after trying to pull him over

Florida federal prosecutors have announced the capture of a fugitive Connecticut rapist after he went on the lam 44 years ago and who they say assumed the identity of a 5-year-old who died in 1945. Douglas Bennett, 76, a former drama department instructor at Mount Holyoke College, the prestigious private liberal arts college for women, was taken into custody in Clearwater, Fla., where he had been living for years.

A Florida man shot and killed his pregnant wife at home, thinking she was a late-night invader, according to local reports. The unidentified man claimed he heard a noise around 1 a.m., grabbed his handgun and fired a shot at someone in the dark hallway.

Heavy rains and flooding linger across Central America on Thursday as a weakened Tropical Depression Eta drifts over the region, but the storm system may eventually impact Florida by next week.  The National Hurricane Center (NHC) said the storm now has maximum sustained winds of 30 mph as it moves over Honduras, bringing downpours and "life-threatening flooding" across the region.

John Leguizamo bashed Floridians after the state was called for Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election.  The actor is one of Hollywood’s more outspoken critics of the president and his administration and spent the bulk of election night and Wednesday morning with the rest of the country on Twitter watching results pour in.  Ultimately, the state and its 29 electoral college votes were called in the incumbent candidate’s favor despite Democrats making a big push and raising expectations

tweeted. “We must remain calm.

November 4, 2020The 33-year-old was reacting to surprise early wins for the incumbent President Donald Trump, who held key states Florida, Texas and Ohio, despite most polls predicting Joe Biden to make big gains.However, people online have criticised her joke as being self-centered and leaving out the fact that a young girl was murdered during her time in Italy.One user replied: ‘Feel bad for the woman who didn’t make it back from that study abroad.

scene in the animated Fox sitcom where Peggy Hill attempts to speak Spanish, inadvertently calling a judge “a reasonable horse” and mistakenly saying she is pregnant. In Spanish, a “caballo” is a horse while a “caballero” is a gentleman.

TMZ says, she's also getting more than $7,000 a month in combined support. The divorce documents state that the former reality TV star will get $4,133.33 in spousal support for the next two years. She'll also get $3,000 per month in child support.

Phil Collins has sued his ex-wife Orianne Cevey, claiming she has refused to vacate his Miami Beach mansion.In court papers filed on 14 October and recently published by WPTV, an NBC affiliate in West Palm Beach, Florida, the Genesis frontman is described as “the sole member, manager and owner” of the entity that owns the property.The documents further claim that Cevey “has no right to occupy or enter upon the property” but “is occupying the property as if it is hers”. According to Collins,

A dozen shots rang out at a youth football game in Florida, killing a man and wounding his 7-year-old son, according to reports. The shooting happened Sunday evening at a park next to an elementary school in Jacksonville and touched off a chaotic scene that sent kids and adults running for their lives in all directions.The boy's injury was a graze wound.

A Florida man, wielding a machete was fatally shot by county deputies on Thursday, following an altercation with his sister, authorities said.  Deputies with the Polk County Sheriff’s office responded to an apartment on Freedom Drive in the unincorporated community of Frostproof around 9:00 p.m., according to a press release.

A body found in an SUV pulled from a Florida retention pond appears to be that of a woman missing for more than three weeks, according to reports. Police searching for Stephanie Hollingsworth, 50, of Belle Isle, confirmed the Chevy Tahoe fished out of the water Saturday night belonged to her, Fox 35 Orlando reported.

A belt buckle has helped Florida cold case investigators identify the victim in an unsolved 35-year-old “John Doe” homicide. A person looking for their missing uncle was checking cold cases on the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office website two years ago and read about the discovery of a murder victim’s remains in January 1985.

Donald Trump told supporters that Savannah Guthrie went “totally crazy” during the NBC Town Hall on October 15. Speaking to a group of seniors in Fort Myers, Florida, the following morning, the president accused the TODAY co-host of ruining a “pleasurable evening” for him.

Florida Republicans have cut the voter registration gap with Democrats to a historic low, giving the GOP a boost during early voting.  Politico reported Thursday night that the difference in registration numbers for voters in the battleground state is the lowest in at least three decades. Republicans now trail Democrats by just 134,242 registered voters, down from 327,483 in 2016.  Four years ago, President Trump won the Sunshine State by fewer than 113,000 votes.

With the November election less than three weeks away, President Trump and Democratic rival Joe Biden will stump in key battleground states on Friday, making a final appeal to voters one night after their dueling town halls.

May the best baby win. Gender reveal parties have become more and more elaborate over the years.

John Cena married girlfriend in a private ceremony two years after his infamous split from Nikki BellaThe couple — who were first linked together in March 2019 after they were spotted holding hands after a dinner date — tied the knot in Tampa, Florida on Monday, October 12, according to court documents obtained by Us Weekly.