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A Florida judge offered Kimberly Lightsey (pictured) a unique plea deal in lieu of five years in jail for abandoning her four children in a hotel room (one with special needs) so that she could go out and party. [ione_newsletter_signup] SEE ALSO: Fiscal Cliff Deal Will Raise Taxes On 77 Percent Of Americans Find Your […]

Twelve-year-old Erol Faustin got a very public lesson on how not to talk to adults, WSVN-TV reports. Scroll down for news video When his teacher asked him to remove is book bag, he cursed at her. “He told her he doesn’t give an ‘f,’ ‘b,'” revealed Lisette Lopez, the boy’s mother. “Those words are not […]

In a tragic case that bears striking similarities to the shocking murder of teenager Travyon Martin, details are emerging regarding the death of African-American 17-year-old Jordan Russell Davis at the hands of 45-year-old Michael Dunn. When the news broke on Tuesday, news outlets justly honed in on the fact that Dunn, a White man, confronted […]

It’d be too right to get Mitt Romney to admit he ran a bad campaign, which led to his opponent handedly beating him in this year’s presidential election. Instead, Romney reiterated sentiments echoed in his “47 percent commentary” this week in a conference call with campaign donors. The Los Angeles Times reports that Romney attributed President Barack […]

Florida school-bus monitor Darryl Blue (pictured) has been charged with aggravated child abuse, after surveillance footage showed him choking an autistic student on a ride home last month. SEE ALSO: Halle Berry Loses Case To Relocate To France With Daughter In the disturbing October 9th video, Broward County bus assistant Blue is seen pulling on […]

With less than a week to go before Election Day 2012, Floridians across the state are asking Gov. Rick Scott (pictured) to extend early voting hours. But despite long lines at early voting sites and missing absentee ballots, the Republican governor is unlikely to heed their calls. Scott, who already passed a law last year […]

An undercover investigation into an alleged betting pool involving a South Florida youth football league has uncovered shocking details about the group’s payment policies. According to an undercover officer, team coaches placed bets on their players. Some even paid them performance and recruitment bonuses. Scroll down for video Some of the players involved in the […]

Missing absentee ballots and long lines for early voting sites have left many South Floridians unable to participate in this year’s elections. Voters have yet to receive absentee ballots from Broward County’s elections office, requested weeks prior. Early voting lines in Miami-Dade have wait times ranging up to six hours. In Aventura, officers turned away […]

Jesse Watlington, 11, (pictured) was taken off life support Sunday after he was struck by a lightning bolt earlier in the week as he made his way onto a football field. SEE ALSO: Research Shows: Negative People Make You Dumb The Ft. Myers, Fla., middle schooler was running to the South Florida Christian Academy football field with friends on Oct. […]

Facebook has been known to reconnect family members, old friends and random acquaintances. But Sam Drummond of Delray Beach, Fla., used the social media tool to find the thugs who lured him into an armed robbery, the Sun Sentinel reports. On Sept. 8, a man Drummond knew as Jean Jacques called him at his newly-opened […]

A 34-year-old mother killed herself and her two young boys after her husband threatened to leave her, according to the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office. The Tampa Bay Tribune reports that Murphy Brown arrived home early Saturday morning to find his wife, Dawn Brown, and two children dead. Dawn reportedly hanged herself from a bedroom ceiling […]

Orane Gowans (pictured) was trying to get his five-month-old daughter to stop sucking her thumb and so he allegedly struck the child on her hand, hoping that would stop the habit. SEE ALSO: Educators Tackle Black Male Achievement But he ended up braking it in several places instead, WPTV reports. The 28-year-old was arrested and […]