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Police Arrest Man in Fatal Accidental Shooting of 5-Year-Old Fla. Girl
Police have arrested 34-year-old Maurice Antonio Mobley in connection with the fatal accidental shooting of a 5-year-old girl over the weekend, Action News Jax reports. Mobley is facing charges of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, the Jacksonville, Fla., Sheriff’s Office confirmed. He is the boyfriend of the mother of 5-year-old Serenity Allen,…
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Fla. Pastor Forced to Flee Naked After Man Comes Home to Find Him With Wife
A popular Tallahassee, Fla., pastor was reportedly forced to run away naked after a husband came home early from work to find him having sex with the man’s wife. Stay with me. I know this sounds like a TV drama, but this really happened to popular pastor O. Jermaine Simmons earlier this month. According to…
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Judge Rules Orlando, Fla., Shooting Suspect Competent to Decide if He Wants Lawyer
Markeith Loyd, the man accused of killing his pregnant ex-girlfriend and an Orlando, Fla., police officer who tried to arrest him, is competent enough to decide whether he wants to be represented by an attorney, a judge said Thursday. The judge did not make a final ruling as to whether Loyd can represent himself. The…
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Report: Fla. Woman Arrested After Flinging Bloody Tampon at Cop
Tecora Fields apparently wasn’t joking when, according to authorities, she told a St. Petersburg, Fla., cop, “I’ll hit you with my tampon, you bitch!” Cops say they were called to the scene of a brawl that Fields was involved in Monday night, and needless to say, a tampon that authorities say was aimed at Officer…
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Fla. Judge Accused of Saying Blacks Should ‘Go Back to Africa’ Resigns Ahead of Impeach Probe
A Florida judge who was facing investigation after being accused of making racist and sexist comments from the bench has abruptly resigned ahead of an impeachment investigation by the Legislature, the Tampa Bay Times reports. Duval Circuit Judge Mark Hulsey III was at the center of a probe by the Judicial Qualifications Commissions after allegedly…
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Accused Orlando, Fla., Cop Killer Markeith Loyd Claims Innocence, Curses at Judge
A Florida murder suspect who is accused of killing his pregnant ex-girlfriend and an Orlando, Fla., police officer in two separate cases burst into an expletive-laced rant during his initial hearing Thursday, insisting on his innocence, the Associated Press reports. Markeith Loyd said that the allegations against him are “made up,” and claimed that authorities…
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8 Shot at Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Park in Miami During MLK Day Celebration
A Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration in Miami went awry after a shooting left eight people injured, WSVN reports. According to the Miami-Dade Fire Rescue, three juveniles and three adults were shot during the celebration at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Park. Two other juveniles were grazed by bullets and were treated on…
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Search for Suspect in Killing of Orlando, Fla., Officer Enters 2nd Week
The search for Markeith Loyd, 41, is entering its second week as authorities filter through tips that continue to come in, WOFL reports. Loyd is wanted for the killing of Orlando, Fla., Police Master Sgt. Debra Clayton outside a Wal-Mart on Jan. 9. He is also wanted in connection with the slaying of his pregnant…
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Kamiyah Mobley, Kidnapped in 1998, Found Alive and Well 18 Years Later
In 1998 a woman posing as a hospital worker walked into the University Medical Center, now known as U.F. Health Jacksonville (Fla.), and told a new 16-year-old mother that her daughter, Kamiyah Mobley, who was just hours old, had a fever and needed to be treated. The woman left the mom’s recovery room and walked…
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Fla. High School Students Protest to Make African-American History a Full-Year Course
Students at Terry Parker High School in Jacksonville, Fla., staged a sit-in earlier this week demanding a change in the way African-American history is taught in Duval County Public Schools, Action News Jax reports. The organizer of the sit-in, Angelina Roque, said that she and her other classmates wanted to protest because they believed that…