Charles Rabin

Jorge Delgado admitted to jurors last week that he tried to kill a man who had gained his trust and friendship in a gruesome extortion plot gone haywire. The man, who had amassed a small fortune mostly through Medicare fraud, was tortured, beaten, starved, stunned with a Taser and set on fire during a planned car crash into a concrete pole.

Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson had leading roles in the movie made from this case.

Case is a complicated saga involving Florida laws on death penalty cases.

Joe Martinez was convicted of accepting $15,000 in payments in exchange for helping with legislation that would have benefited an Extra Supermarket owner in a strip center off Southwest Eighth Street.

Joe Martinez, the ex-Miami-Dade commissioner, is accused of pocketing $15,000 in exchange for legislation to increase the number of containers at a strip center in his district.

“You’re going to see a pattern over the years of the defendant’s accounts being delinquent,” said the prosecutor about Joe Martinez.

The outburst happened shortly after the shooter was found guilty in case involving a botched robbery of three pair of Yeezy sneakers and the death of a high school girl.

An outburst happened shortly after the shooter was found guilty in case involving a botched robbery of three pairs of Yeezy sneakers and the death of a high school girl.

With just over two weeks to go before Miami-Dade County residents choose a sheriff for the first time in six decades, the race for one of the most important elected posts in the state has turned ugly, with accusations of dirty politicking coming from both camps.

Sanibel, the quaint barrier island just west of Fort Myers Beach, appeared to have withstood the winds and surge from Hurricane Milton reasonably well.