A Florida man has been sentenced to six years and two months in federal prison and ordered to pay more than $2.1 million after fraudulently submitting COVID-19 relief loans under the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). Valesky Barosy, 27, was sentenced in Fort Lauderdale federal court, according to court records. He was convicted by a jury on five counts of…
Florida Immigrant Sentenced in $4.2 Million COVID-19 Business Relief Fraud Scheme
10 Taken to Hospital After Spirit Airlines Plane Makes Emergency Landing After Battery Fire
A total of ten people were taken to hospital on Wednesday after a Spirit Airlines flight made an emergency landing in Jacksonville, Florida, due to a battery fire in an overhead bin. A spokesperson for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) told multiple outlets that Spirit Airlines Flight 259 landed safely around 2 p.m., adding that the…
Judges Dismiss Florida Woman’s Petition to Be Released From Jail Over Unborn Baby
An eight-month pregnant woman won’t be released from prison on the grounds that her unborn child was innocent, after a Florida court deemed her argument “illogical” and merely an attempt to use pregnancy as a leverage to avoid lawful detainment. The mother, 24-year-old Natalia Harrell, was about six weeks pregnant when she was arrested last…
[Premiering Now] Police Forcibly Remove Doctor From Hospital After He Endorsed Ivermectin: Full Footage | Facts Matter
In Florida, medical freedom activists are putting more and more pressure on a certain hospital system located in the city of Sarasota. This particular hospital put out an official report that touted how awesome their response to COVID-19 was. However, these medical freedom activists, which include people who lost family members to COVID-19 at this…
Disney Loses Control of District Operations to Conservative Committee
March 1, 2023
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In a recent turn of events, Florida’s Republican governor Ron DeSantis has appointed five members to a new board that will administer the district housing Walt Disney World, with a “Moms for Liberty” co-founder securing a spot on the board. On Monday, DeSantis signed legislation that renames Reedy Creek Improvement District, where Walt Disney World…
DeSantis Tours Florida Touting New Book, Calls for Courage of Politicians and Citizens
THE VILLAGES, Fla.—Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis launched a tour to promote his newly published book with a series of speeches around the state on Feb. 28—a tour that lets him campaign for a presidency he hasn’t officially declared he’s seeking. He began the day in Venice, on the state’s Gulf Coast, touting “The Courage to…
Congresswoman Calls on State Department to Help Free Florida Family’s Loved One Detained in China
March 1, 2023
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Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-Fla.) is urging the State Department to do more to help a Florida family’s husband and father who has been detained in China for nearly two years for his faith. Zhou Deyong, a geological engineer, was arrested in a police sweep targeting Falun Gong practitioners and their family members in eastern…
Suspect in Florida TV Crew Attack Faces More Murder Charges
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.—A 19-year-old Florida man is now facing three first-degree-murder charges related to a shooting last week that killed a television news reporter, a 9-year-old girl, and a 38-year-old woman, sheriff’s officials said Tuesday. Orange County Sheriff’s officials released an arrest warrant Tuesday morning that included two new murder charges against Keith Melvin Moses…
Train Carrying 30,000 Gallons of Propane Derails in Florida’s Manatee County
A train carrying around 30,000 gallons of propane derailed in Florida’s Manatee County on Feb. 28, officials said, just weeks after a train carrying toxic chemicals came off the tracks in East Palestine, Ohio. Five railcars carrying sheet rock and two propane tankers were derailed in the 7200 block of 16 Street East in an industrial area north of…
DeSantis Touts Decisive, Sometimes Divisive, Leadership in Book Tour, Pep Rally, Not-Officially-Yet-a-Campaign Speech
NORTH VENICE, Fla.—When Ron DeSantis arrived in Tallahassee in January 2019 after winning Florida’s 2018 gubernatorial race by 32,000 votes—less than a half-percent of 8 million ballots cast—he was told by insiders, experts, and pundits that the narrow victory was cause for cautious moderation in managing the swing state. “I rejected that advice,” he said….
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