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The family of a 20-year-old man fatally shot by Osceola County sheriff’s deputies outside a Target in 2022 has reached a $1 million settlement in a federal civil rights lawsuit, with the family’s attorney saying he hopes the agreement will promote accountability within the sheriff’s office.
The woman accused of killing an aspiring Miami-Dade firefighter in a wrong-way crash on the Florida Turnpike in Miramar last year has been sentenced to 20 years in prison and 10 years of probation Friday afternoon. Sunshine Perez, 45, appeared emotional in Friday’s sentencing hearing, sobbing for nearly half an hour through her address to [...] The post Woman charged in deadly wrong-way crash on Florida Turnpike in Broward sentenced to 20 years behind bars appeared first on News Pub . The post Woman charged in deadly wrong-way crash on Florida Turnpike in Broward sentenced to 20 years behind bars appeared first on News Pub .
Florida’s top health official called the measles vaccine “effective” Friday, but stopped short of imploring people to get inoculated against the disease. According to data from the Florida Department of Health, there have been 155 measles cases in Florida since the start of the year, with three in Orange County and one in Osceola County.
Law enforcement agencies in Florida are warning people about a resurfaced phone scam, where people are pretending to be police officers or sheriff's office deputies and then demanding payments related to arrest warrants, jury duty, or court-related issues. A woman in Osceola County was recently scammed out of $34,000, the Osceola County Sheriff's Office said. Scam alert: Here’s how it works Both the Osceola County Sheriff's Office and Sumter County Sheriff's Office posted warnings of the scam resurgence on their social media accounts. According to the sheriff's office: The scammer calls from a "spoofed" number that may show the sheriff's office on the caller ID. The person then claims to be a deputy or to work for the sheriff's office, police department, or court. That person then typically claims someone has an active warrant for their arrest, missed jury duty, or a missed court date and will then demand to be paid over the phone under threat of being arrested. Payment typically inclu
A $1M settlement resolves the federal civil suit over Jayden Baez's 2022 killing outside a Kissimmee Target; the fund will cover the payout.
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