TAMPA – Just over a decade ago, from the outside looking in, Mikese Morse appeared destined for success.
A high school honor student, he set a University of South Florida school record in the long jump and became the school’s first champion in that Big East Conference category. He became an All-American in 2008 and made the Olympic Trials finals.
Morse transferred to the University of Miami, where he again earned All-American honors. In 2016, he became an Olympic Trials long-jump finalist once more, and he graduated from USF with a business degree in marketing.
Morse continued to train even as things began falling apart, slowly, incrementally, until what he and his parents could no longer contain exploded into horrific headlines on June 24, 2018. That’s when Morse turned his car into a weapon, aimed for a family on a Sunday morning outing along a bicycle path, and left one man dead and his two children injured.
New app to give Jacksonville-area sexual assault survivors online haven to document, report incidents
The app will function as a digital diary where victims can document abuse over time in a safe, secure, consistent, complete and private manner, Author: Florida Times-Union, Beth Cravey Published: 12:01 PM EDT April 12, 2021 Updated: 12:01 PM EDT April 12, 2021
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. In Florida, an estimated 3 of 4 sexual assaults go unreported to law enforcement. VictimsVoice, a new app being launched locally in June by the Women s Center of Jacksonville, is designed to change that statistic by providing a self-guided, online sexual assault reporting tool.
The app will function as a digital diary where victims can document abuse over time in a safe, secure, consistent, complete and private manner, as well as legally admissible, to ultimately report to law enforcement, according to VictimsVoice founder and CEO Sheri Ku
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1 day ago Share by: Shannon Martin Public Affairs Officer, Flagler County Sheriff’s Office
The Flagler County Sheriff s Office s Cold Case Unit has arrested a 64-year-old woman for manslaughter in the 2018 death by starvation of the woman s disabled mother. It is the Cold Case Unit s first solved case. If you are responsible for a human being’s care, you must take care of them. No matter how long it takes, we will continue these investigations to hold people accountable for their crimes.”
RICK STALY, Flagler County sheriff
Family members told detectives that the suspect had collected money weekly ostensibly for the victim s food, but then isolated the victim and refused to let other family members see her.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement has ended its investigation into possible Sunshine Law violations by Manatee County commissioners in relation to the termination of former County Administrator Cheri Coryea.
According to the department’s investigative report, FDLE agents investigated the case between Jan. 7 and March 12. During this time agents interviewed every Manatee County commissioner.
Commissioners Vanessa Baugh, James Satcher, Kevin Van Ostenbridge and George Kruse came under investigation after attempts to terminate Coryea raised public scrutiny along with concerns about possible Sunshine Law violations and influence from special interests.
The FDLE also served subpoenas to the four commissioners on Feb. 18. However, on Feb. 19 FDLE agents, along with the 12th Judicial Circuit State Attorney’s Office, decided to rescind the subpoena “after learning that the cellular telephones used by the county commissioners were personally owned devices and not Mana