Jackie Winchester

Florida will discontinue the popular “Gator Bait” cheer at school-sanctioned sporting events, school president Kent Fuchs announced Thursday. The song is commonly played at Gators sporting events as fans do the famous “Gator Chomp” gesture. The move is part of a larger plan announced by Fuchs for the University of Florida to take steps toward […]

A Cape Coral woman faces a manslaughter charge after stabbing her mother to death Wednesday, police said. Police were called to a home in the 2500 block of SW Embers Terrace shortly after 10 a.m. and found a woman with a stab wound to the chest. She was taken to the hospital where she died. […]

A woman without a ticket or government-issued ID walked past a Transportation Security Administration agent and entered a terminal at Orlando International Airport in October by blending in with a group of people, a report said. She then boarded a Delta flight bound for Atlanta by pretending to be a wheelchair passenger, according to a […]

Increasingly, wealthy bidders are going online to buy collector cars worth six-figures or more at auctions without seeing them in person first. At one online auction last month, a 2003 Ferrari Enzo sold for $2.6 million. It was the highest price ever paid for a car in an Internet-only auction, according to RM Sotheby’s. At […]

President Donald Trump on Saturday highlighted the diversity of West Point’s graduating class and appealed for America’s newest officers to uphold the country’s core values, a speech emphasizing unity at a time when the commander in chief’s relationship with military leaders has become strained and questions have arisen about the role of soldiers in a […]

An arrest has been made in a fatal hit-and-run that occurred in March in Immokalee. The Collier County Sheriff’s Office said Saturday that Arturo Ruiz-Lopez was driving the vehicle that struck a 70-year-old woman, who died at the scene. Ruiz-Lopez, 55, is in the Collier County Jail on a charge of failure to remain at […]

Authorities said they uncovered human remains at an Idaho man’s home Tuesday as they investigated the disappearance of his new wife’s two children – a case that’s drawn global attention for its ties to two other mysterious deaths and the couple’s doomsday beliefs. Chad Daybell, who married the children’s mother, Lori Vallow Daybell, was taken […]