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Yahoo
5 days ago
- General
- Yahoo
Florida girl, 12, riding scooter seriously hurt after unlicensed driver hits her: FHP
CHARLOTTE COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) — A 12-year-old Florida girl was seriously hurt after an unlicensed driver hit her while she was riding a scooter, the Florida Highway Patrol said. NBC affiliate WBBH spoke to the girl's grandmother, who told them that the girl, named Eden, remains unconscious and heavily sedated at St. Petersburg Hospital as of Friday night. Investigators said the crash happened along Easy Street in Port Charlotte just after 5 p.m. on Thursday. According to FHP, the 12-year-old was riding her electric scooter when she entered the path of a minivan. Florida mother of dead 6-year-old was trying to 'exorcise demons': sheriff The driver, Arlin Salazar, was arrested after investigators said she did not have a valid license, which she had been cited for before. Troopers said a man, who was in the passenger seat, fled the scene and hasn't been identified. Neighbor Nicole Isgrig told WBBH that she was outside with her children when the road was suddenly blocked by emergency responders. 'We saw Eden's scooter at the end of the road and knew something was wrong,' she said. Isgrig told the news station she won't let her kids out of her sight now. 'They can only ride where I can see them.' WBBH reported that the 12-year-old suffered head trauma, internal bleeding, a broken collarbone, and a fractured lower back. She was wearing a helmet, which her family believes saved her life. FHP told WBBH that it has referred Salazar's case to ICE for review. The 12-year-old's grandmother is asking anyone who witnessed the crash or has Ring camera footage to contact the Charlotte County Sheriff's Office. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Miami Herald
27-05-2025
- Sport
- Miami Herald
Highest-rated Class of 2025 football recruits from Florida
The dust has finally settled on the Class of 2025 football recruiting cycle. As programs look at their finalized rosters, the future landscape of college football is beginning to take shape. From five-star quarterbacks making headlines to underrated defensive linemen poised for breakout careers, this class is loaded with game-changing talent. Stacker compiled a ranking of the best Class of 2025 football recruits from Florida using data from 247Sports. Here's the players from Florida set to dominate Saturdays (and potentially Sundays) for years to come. - National rank: #137 (4 stars) - Position rank: #12 - College: Miami - High school: Columbus (Miami, FL) - National rank: #136 (4 stars) - Position rank: #12 - College: Florida - High school: Seminole Ridge (Loxahatchee, FL) - National rank: #124 (4 stars) - Position rank: #17 - College: Miami - High school: West Broward (Pembroke Pines, FL) - National rank: #114 (4 stars) - Position rank: #13 - College: Texas - High school: Port Charlotte (Port Charlotte, FL) - National rank: #112 (4 stars) - Position rank: #15 - College: Nebraska - High school: Homestead(Homestead, FL) - National rank: #109 (4 stars) - Position rank: #13 - College: Oregon - High school: Carrollwood Day (Tampa, FL) - National rank: #95 (4 stars) - Position rank: #12 - College: Missouri - High school: IMG Academy (Bradenton, FL) - National rank: #92 (4 stars) - Position rank: #2 - College: Notre Dame - High school: Berkeley Prep (Tampa, FL) - National rank: #82 (4 stars) - Position rank: #12 - College: Florida - High school: Northwestern (Miami, FL) - National rank: #65 (4 stars) - Position rank: #10 - College: Texas - High school: Wiregrass Ranch (Tampa, FL) - National rank: #62 (4 stars) - Position rank: #6 - College: Alabama - High school: West Orange (Winter Garden, FL) - National rank: #59 (4 stars) - Position rank: #8 - College: Florida - High school: Booker T. Washington (Miami, FL) - National rank: #54 (4 stars) - Position rank: #4 - College: Florida - High school: Mandarin (Jacksonville, FL) - National rank: #46 (4 stars) - Position rank: #4 - College: Missouri - High school: Cocoa (Cocoa, FL) - National rank: #44 (4 stars) - Position rank: #9 - College: Texas - High school: Mandarin (Jacksonville, FL) - National rank: #41 (4 stars) - Position rank: #2 - College: LSU - High school: Raines (Jacksonville, FL) - National rank: #35 (4 stars) - Position rank: #8 - College: Florida - High school: Tampa Bay Tech (Tampa, FL) - National rank: #30 (5 stars) - Position rank: #6 - College: Florida - High school: Jones (Orlando, FL) - National rank: #17 (5 stars) - Position rank: #1 - College: Alabama - High school: IMG Academy (Bradenton, FL) - National rank: #11 (5 stars) - Position rank: #2 - College: LSU - High school: Zephyrhills (Tampa, FL) © Stacker Media, LLC.
New York Times
13-05-2025
- New York Times
The Pope's Florida Brother, a MAGA Disciple, Plans to ‘Tone It Down'
You can often find the eldest brother of the Successor of the Prince of the Apostles down at the Twisted Fork restaurant in Port Charlotte, Fla., where, on Honky-Tonk Thursdays, he is most likely boot-scooting along with the rest of the line dancers. His ringtone plays the opening riffs of Led Zeppelin's 'Immigrant Song.' He incurred $20,000 in roof damage from Hurricane Ian. And until recently, anyone could read his Facebook posts, which included vulgar potshots at Nancy Pelosi and her husband and a pronouncement that supporters of Joseph R. Biden Jr. suffered from a 'mental affliction.' Nearly a week after the Chicago-born Robert Francis Prevost became Pope Leo XIV, the world is still adjusting to the fact that he has an American family that does typically American things. The Borgias, for all their many sins, never posted crude or spicy memes to the socials. And indeed, for Louis Prevost, 73, it is the Facebook posts, which he shared online before his brother was made pope, that have earned him the most attention in the last few days. By Tuesday, the posts were no longer publicly viewable. Among other things, he reposted an old video of Ms. Pelosi, under which the author of the original post referred to her with a vulgar sexist epithet. The original post also insinuated that Ms. Pelosi's husband, Paul, was gay, echoing a misinformation campaign that spread among those on the right after Mr. Pelosi was brutally attacked by a man who broke into his home in October 2022.
The Guardian
13-05-2025
- Politics
- The Guardian
Anti-Democratic, anti-trans Facebook posts of Pope Leo brother draw scrutiny
The oldest brother of newly elected Pope Leo XIV has predicted that the Roman Catholic church's first-ever US-born leader will strive to be apolitical in his role – which, if that happens, would cut a stark contrast with the papal sibling's fierce support of far-right American politics. Facebook posts under the name of Louis Martin 'Lou' Prevost, whose youngest brother, Robert Prevost,was recently picked to succeed the late Pope Francis, have come under scrutiny from journalists and social media users as the world seeks hints about what kind of relationship Leo may foster with Donald Trump. One of the posts from Lou – a resident of Port Charlotte, Florida, which is in a majority Republican county – recirculates a video referring to the Democratic congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, the former US House speaker, as a 'drunk [C-word]'. Another accused Barack Obama and the Democratic party which he led as president from 2009 to 2017 of 'longing for the total destruction of our way of life and turning this country into a dictatorship, and a racist one on top of it'. Yet another post called for Democrats who met with the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, after he and Trump argued in the Oval Office about his country's war with Russia to be arrested on charges of treason. And a separate post shared an anti-LGBTQ+ meme with the text: 'Your child isn't trans – you're just a shitty parent.' In interviews that he granted after Leo's election, Lou has made it a point to say that he and his brother, widely seen as ideologically moderate, have their differences. Lou told the New York Times that he was conservative, and he and Leo – as the outlet put it – 'disagreed on some things'. And, more lightheartedly, Lou described how he rooted for his home town Chicago Cubs baseball team while Leo backed their intracity rivals the White Sox as they grew up there with their parents and their middle brother, John. Nonetheless, Lou's attempt to portray himself and Leo as their own men has done little to quell the polarizing reaction the older brother's Facebook posts have inspired since drawing notice. Among the newer comments visible on Lou's account as of Monday was one reading: 'Your brother must be soooo embarrassed.' Another of the more polite ones read, 'Your comments and language is unbecoming of anyone. Shame on you. Besides it being nasty it's also factually incorrect. I hope this is not a reflection on the Roman Catholic church.' Lou, though, had defenders in his corner. One Facebook user on Lou's page wrote 'what the hell is wrong with people' who had gone there to complain about his beliefs. The conservative political website Gateway Pundit exalted him as 'a red-blooded American patriot telling it like it is'. For his part, early indications from Leo have been that he seemingly has been willing to oppose stances held by Trump and his Republican supporters through his two presidencies, which began in 2017 and in January. Social media activity reportedly linked to Leo, 69, shows he had previously boosted a 2018 statement from a fellow church leader criticizing the Trump administration's policy of allowing immigration authorities to separate families at the US-Mexico border at the time. He evidently shared a post asking 'is your conscience not disturbed' in reference to Kilmar Ábrego García, the man whom the second Trump administration mistakenly deported to a prison in El Salvador. Meanwhile, in some of his earliest remarks as the Catholic pontiff, Leo invoked a prior call from Francis for the church to be one 'that builds bridges'. Such imagery during Francis's papacy came to be seen as a rebuke of the 'build the wall' slogan Trump has frequently used in connection with his administration's efforts to restrict immigration at Mexico's border with the US. Trump, for the record, congratulated Leo over the outcome of the papal election and said he looked forward to meeting him. Asked by south-west Florida's ABC Gulf Coast News how he believed his brother's papacy would compare with that of Francis, Lou Prevost said, 'I don't think there will be a lot of politics involved.' Lou, 73, added that his younger brother, who had introduced him to Francis at one point, was 'more … here's the rules that have been set – let's follow them'. He referred to Francis's widely publicized efforts for the church, which does not recognize same-sex unions, to be more welcoming to LGBTQ+ people as being 'a little more liberal with the transsexuals and the homosexuals and whatnot'. Lou Prevost did not respond to messages from the Guardian seeking comment. He told Gulf Coast News that he had not spoken to Leo in the immediate aftermath of the pope's election, figuring his brother must have been exceptionally busy at the time. The Prevost brothers all reportedly attended Catholic school. John, 71, became a Catholic school principal in their home town. Louis has said he was in the US navy at the time Robert became ordained a priest in 1982. Before becoming pope, Leo served as the worldwide leader of the Catholic religious order colloquially known as the Augustinians; led a Peruvian diocese; was made cardinal by Francis in September 2023; and headed the Vatican entity in charge of selecting new bishops around the world.
Daily Mail
11-05-2025
- Politics
- Daily Mail
BREAKING NEWS REVEALED: The Pope's brother's outrageous social media posts... including branding top Democrat a 'drunk c***'
The new Pope's brother has shared posts branding top Democrat Nancy Pelosi a 'drunk c***' in series of outrageous, freshly-unearthed social media tirades. Leo XIV was introduced as the first-ever American pope last week after the cardinals elected him on the second and final day of conclave on Thursday. His older brother, Lou Prevost of Port Charlotte, Florida, is a Donald Trump fan and has used his personal Facebook page to share MAGA memes and rants. On April 5, he re-posted a video of Rep Nancy Pelosi speaking in 1996 which came with the caption: 'These f***ing liberals crying about tariffs is just unreal. 'Do they not know that there is a thing called video? Just listen to what this drunk c*** has to say in the mid-90's long before her husband had grindr dates.' Prevost also re-posted a meme in October 2024 showing an asylum with the caption: 'Where the woke lived before the '70's'.
