Prosecutors played Michael Drejka's interview with Pinellas County detectives during his manslaughter trial in Clearwater, Florida. He is charged with the July 2018 death of Markeis McGlockton, 28. Not long after playing the video, the prosecution rested its case after two days of testimony.
The district tells ABC7 that they received messages through the Fortify Florida app about a possible threat. The app was launched after the shooting at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland as a way to report threats.
Three people came forward to say that New College was discriminating against admission applicants who disclosed a disability or mental illness as part of the application process.
Monday around 7:40pm, the man walked into the business on the 1600 block of North Washington, walks up to the counter and sets down a bag, demanding money from the cashier. The cashier spoke to another employee and the man grabbed the bag and left without any cash.
William Karaein was arrested in February 2019 after the victim told a child protection agent that he had forced her to perform oral sex and showed her images of genitals on his cellphone. The victim said both happened many times.
Boynton Beach police spokeswoman Stephanie Slater said witnesses followed the white truck on Wednesday after seeing the boy jump out, eventually blocking it and detaining the driver until police arrived.
Detectives say Alan Baily and another man, Jose Hernandez, had met Alexander Cherp in the park to smoke marijuana. Instead, Baily and Hernandez tried to rob and then murdered Cherp.
It started around 8:15am. Troopers say a single vehicle went off the highway about a mile past Exit 220. A fire engine was sent to the scene as part of the response to that accident and while on the way, a woman crashed into the back of the fire engine and injured.
Widespread concern about understaffing in Mississippi's prisons has people calling for a change. They say inmates, correctional officers and surrounding communities are in danger.
Josh Hunter was the driver in a fatal DUI crash in 2010 that killed his best friend and colleague, Douglas Garrity. He was sentenced to prison, even though the victim’s family advocated for no time behind bars.
William Salyer, who goes by the nickname “T,” was last seen on foot Tuesday morning around 8am at his home on the 3000 block of Ridge Avenue in Sarasota.
Elections officials say the network known as the Electronic Registration Information Center could help local election officials more easily verify registration records and detect any duplicate registrations.
Authorities say between August 13 at 8am and August 14 at 5pm, the woman entered the business on the 300 block of John Ringling Boulevard and took the items off the walls.
Democrats in the Florida House on Tuesday launched a bid to convene the Republican-controlled Legislature but most Republicans are expected to follow the lead of their legislative leaders who oppose the move. A special session would need consent from at least two-thirds of legislators in each chambe
The one-alarm blaze started in a vacant home on Links Avenue near MLK Boulevard and the smoke carried to nearby 301, a busy thoroughfare into the City of Sarasota. When crews arrived, the house was fully engulfed in flames.
LSU officials gave the all clear on campus just minutes before 5 p.m. after reports came in hours earlier of an armed intruder on campus at Coates Hall.
The Sarasota Family YMCA board has agreed in principle on a plan from Dreamers Academy, Save Our Y and Project Stoked to keep the fitness centers open.
According to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, as of Wednesday, 37.764 million gallons have flowed into a pond at the Bee Ridge Water Facility on Lorraine Road. The pond then feeds Phillippi Creek.
The county’s Emergency Operations Center is where three K9 units were able to train on how to ride up in a helicopter, land and then find their target.
The developers of The Sarasota Bay Project, which aims to redevelop over 50 acres of city-owned land along the Sarasota Bayfront, is asking for public input about phase one of their project.The developers will host two public input meetings Wednesday August 21st. The first meeting will be at the S
Superintendent Todd Bowden says Maultsby’s accuser Cheraina Bonner met with the teacher’s union for lunch. He tells us since Bonner is considered a confidential employee any meeting with the union is highly unusual and a potential concern.
The Gulf Coast Community Foundation has helped countless businesses and families on the Suncoast. One of its late supporters who passed away, Helen Koss Hadden, left a $1.5 million endowment to the foundation specifically to help improve the quality of life for residents in North Port.
Elton John took to social media to slam stories that suggested that Prince Harry and Meghan were hypocritical for accepting jet travel despite their devotion to eco-causes.
Deputies said 44-year-old Panagiotis Karamanlis pulled his sister's hair, held her to the ground and punched her in the face multiple times after they got into an argument over text messages she had sent to her boyfriend.
Volusia County Sheriff's officials interviewed the boy and his mother outside their home near Daytona Beach last Friday, and posted a video of their discussion to underline the consequences of making school threats.
Authorities say a stove in a home on the 6000 block of Amoko Court exploded due to an issue involving the pilot light. One victim suffered burns and Bayflite was called to transport them to the hospital.
Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte announced his resignation Tuesday, blaming his decision to end his 14-month-old populist government on his rebellious and politically ambitious deputy prime minister, Matteo Salvini.
Police say around 2:30am on August 15, four men disguised in heavy clothing entered the store and stole cash and cigarettes. Police say that the store clerk told them that the men threatened to shoot her if she didn’t cooperate.
A truck driver warned that he would commit a mass shooting at a church in Memphis, Tennessee, on Thursday, authorities say in newly filed court records.
The death of Sheena Morris was ruled a suicide more than 10 years ago, but Monday, her family said new evidence proves what they have always believed: Morris did not kill herself.
It covers about three miles on both sides of U.S. 41, but on some sections of this new trail, the path is only a few feet away from the busy road way – which has been seen as too close for comfort in the last week.
After a several month investigation regarding the hit and run fatal crash February 27, on I-75 at mm 202 in Sarasota County, FHP troopers have arrested 28-year-old Robert Herrera as the the hit and run driver.
When a knife-wielding Florida woman attempted to rob a Family Dollar store, the cashier said “not today” while another employee locked the door until deputies arrived, authorities say.
A mother of three swept up in an I.C.E. raid this month remains separated from her children, including her 4-month-old daughter who she still breast-feeds.
Florida’s governor says when he visited the Western Wall in Israel in May he followed tradition by sticking a slip of paper with a written prayer in between crevices of the ancient structure.
Deputies arrested a 30-year-old man, who is already a convicted felon, on drug and weapons charges Thursday night after a traffic stop and brief vehicle pursuit.
Around 2:30am on Saturday, the three pedestrians - 47-year-old Donald Keefer of Palmetto, 13-year-old Tyler Pittard of Palmetto, and 40-year-old Misty Zipperer of Palmetto - were walking in the grass on the west shoulder of U.S. 19, just south of 49th Street East, when they were hit by a truck.
The spill extended around 1,000 yards and forced authorities to leave two lanes closed Monday morning between State Road 70 and University Parkway, backing up traffic for miles.
The new school year began last Monday, but many teacher positions still remain unfilled. To help reduce teacher shortage in the Suncoast, Manatee County schools started working with USF Sarasota-Manatee elementary education students.
Florida Highway Patrol says around 3:15 a.m., 28-year-old Yusuf Memon of Venice was entering the northbound ramp to I-75, north of State Road 681, in the right lane when he lost control of his car, running off the roadway and hitting a tree.
Buchanan’s bill passed the House last Congress and would make the murder or attempted murder of a police officer an aggravating factor in death penalty determinations. The bill now goes to the Senate and if it passes it will head to President Trump’s desk.
The reclaimed water storage pond at the Bee Ridge Water Reclamation Facility began to overflow through the emergency spillway on Saturday morning due to the continuous rain and flooding conditions in the area.
Actor Peter Fonda, the son of a Hollywood legend who became a movie star in his own right after both writing and starring in the counter-culture classic "Easy Rider," has died.
The front which has been responsible for all the rain is about to fade away but not until late Saturday. High pressure will build back to our north which will switch our winds around to the SE which will bring mainly afternoon and evening storms coming to the coast from inland areas.
Pamela Klein is calling the medicine a game changer. She said when someone is diagnosed with cancer, many doctors will recommend they immediately start chemotherapy. But this new treatment targets the mutation instead and it’s one Klein never would have known about without a clinical trial.
The Manatee County Sheriff’s Office are searching for for four black, male, teenagers who committed an armed robbery at a 7-11 store Cortez Road West in Bradenton.
