Florida

Two Florida corrections officers and one former officer trainee have been arrested in a plot to kill a Black inmate who was being released from prison, the Florida Attorney General’s office said Thursday, according to CNN. The men, Thomas Jordan Driver, 25; David Elliot Moran, 47; and Charles Thomas Newcomb, 42, were charged with conspiracy […]

A 10-year-old is dead after a suspected drive-by shooting in Miami, WPLG – Miami reports. The shooting happened Tuesday evening on the 1900 block of Northwest Fourth Court. With a steady flow of gun violence in the area, police believe the boy was shot in the head during a drive-by. It is unknown if the child was killed […]

In a newly released video, George Zimmerman — the former neighborhood watchman acquitted of murder in 2013 — blames President Obama for stirring racial tensions following the fatal shooting of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin in 2012. Zimmerman, who pursued and approached the 17-year-old as he walked to his father’s house, can be heard on the March […]

Three Fort Lauderdale Police officers were fired and another resigned after an internal affairs investigation revealed that they spent time on the job sending n-word laced text messages and sharing an unbelievably racist video defaming the president and cut with images of the KKK with one another, reports The Broward Palm Beach New Times. SEE ALSO: Unarmed Teen […]

A Florida man is facing hate crime charges after hitting a black man with a bottle during a bar fight, the Daytona Beach News Journal reports. Deputies say Jason Cuellar of Ormond Beach approached the man at the Hideout Lounge on Friday and told him “this bar is not for blacks.” The victim, 24-year-old Kenneth Hodge, ignored […]

What year is it again? Under an arcane law, hundreds of Floridians are being fined for living with a romantic partner sans government permission, thanks to an 1868 cohabitation statute that just happens to still be in effect.  The crime is punishable by a $500 fine and as much as 60 days in jail. Around 700 people were charged […]

Funny man Bill Cosby (pictured) has been up to his neck in drama with all of the allegations of sexual assault that has been flung in his direction over the last few months.  Now a teen artist, Rodman Edwards has proposed that a naked sculpture of the comedian be created that he feels will  reflect the […]

Judge Judith Hawkins (pictured) has been removed from the bench by the Florida Supreme Court for selling religious periodicals from her office as part of her for-profit ministry, according to Tallahassee Democrat. SEE ALSO: Halloween ‘Lynching’ Display Ordered Removed From Home On Army Base The Leon County judge, who reportedly used her office for personal gain, sold […]

Although African Americans make up just 13 percent of the U.S. population, we account for 33 percent of the missing in the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s database. Cases involving African Americans also tend to receive less media coverage than missing Whites, with missing men of color getting even less attention. NewsOne has partnered with the […]

Paul Ezekeil Fagan, 10, was missing for an entire day. He was, interestingly enough, found by a TV reporter working on the story. Watch Paul’s emotional reunion with his grandmother.

  Angelia Mangum, 19, and Tjhisha Ball,18, were found dead and bound together along a road in Jacksonville, Florida Thursday. Local news source WJXT has the story: Investigators are trying to determine a cause of death and do suspect foul play. Waters also told WJXT, “They were in an area where they would have been noticed, […]

Although African Americans make up just 13 percent of the U.S. population, we account for 33 percent of the missing in the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s database. Cases involving African Americans also tend to receive less media coverage than missing Whites, with missing men of color getting even less attention. NewsOne has partnered with the […]