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LUCIE POLICE DEPARTMENT SWORE IN THEIR NEWEST HONORARY OFFICER. THIS IS WILLIAM RIVERO. HE’S TEN YEARS OLD, AND HE WAS DIAGNOSED WITH ADVANCED DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY. HIS DREAM IS TO BE A ...

A Florida woman was arrested for felony battery after allegedly throwing a large conch shell at a man following an argument at his home, according to police. A judge has since issued a no-contact ...

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An apartment building where a fatal shooting occurred is shown on Thursday, March 27, 2025 in Pembroke Park, Fla. (Mike Stocker/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP) An apartment building where a fatal ...

YEAH I KNOW I’M GOING. NO YOU’RE NOT FREE TO LEAVE. YOU’RE UNDER ARREST. NOW PUT YOUR STUFF DOWN. OH, BOY. ONLY IN FLORIDA DO POLICE TRESPASS. A CLOWN FROM A ...

PALM BAY, Fla. (WFLA) — There will be no more clowning around for one man who was caught trespassing at a Palm Bay, Florida, shopping center, police said Wednesday. According to the Palm Bay ...

“You were wearing (the badge) at a bar, (reading) that you were police,” Gentry asked. “Correct,” Jeter said. “Do you believe that uniform caused (people) to think that you were a police ...

A tattted-up Florida man tried to assure cops that ... Thomas Carpenter, 41, was arrested after police discovered various drug paraphernalia in his vehicle. Putnam County Sheriff's Office ...