While Moms For Liberty cofounder Bridget Ziegler and her husband, former Florida GOP chair Christian Ziegler, fight in court today to keep law enforcement records related to the latter’s closed rape investigation from public view, a recently released police report provides startling details about the couple’s sexual practices. The report, obtained by the Florida Trident and authored by Sarasota police Det. Angela Cox, recounts how Christian Ziegler went “on the prowl” in bars for women to bring home to Bridget, a Sarasota County School Board member who has backed a number of anti-LGBTQ measures at both the state and local level, for threesome encounters.

An indictment of a Southwest Florida Sheriff's deputy was announced today.The case involves excessive force that was captured on body cameras worn by Hendry deputies.

U.S. Coast Guard St. Petersburg is seeking information on a missing boat with four male occupants.A search for the men had been expanded into Lee and Collier county waters of the Gulf of Mexico on Monday. Coast Guard suspended the search late Monday.

The National Transportation Safety Board moved the remains of a crashed private jet from Interstate 75 in Collier County to Jacksonville on Sunday.The investigation moving off the freeway allowed the Florida Highway Patrol to reopen I-75 southbound shortly after 7 p.m. Sunday."There is not much information available at this time. Investigators are continuing to examine and document scene and aircraft," a NTSB spokesman said via email Sunday.

While Republican power couple Christian and Bridget Ziegler publicly pushed for “family values” and backed an agenda widely viewed as anti-LGBTQ, they were secretly on the “hunt” for threesome lovers, newly released police reports from the husband’s now-closed rape investigation reveal.Among the startling evidence recovered from Christian’s cell phone, according to the report, was a list of women, including the alleged sexual assault victim’s name, with a one-word subheading: “F- - -.”

NEW YORK — Social media has been rife in recent weeks with posts speculating that a judge is about to release a list of clients or co-conspirators of Jeffrey Epstein, the jet-setting financier who killed himself in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.There is no such list and the truth is less scandalous.Previously sealed court documents related to Epstein are being released, but the great majority of those whose names appear in the documents aren’t accused of wrongdoing or have been mentioned previously in legal proceedings or news accounts.

Sarasota police are investigating whether Florida GOP Chairman Christian Ziegler unlawfully videotaped the sexual encounter at the heart of a rape allegation against him, a third search warrant affidavit obtained by the Florida Trident reveals.Based on the newly released Dec. 8 police affidavit, Circuit Judge Thomas Krug issued a search warrant for Ziegler’s Instagram account after finding probable cause the embattled Republican official violated state law prohibiting video voyeurism, a third-degree felony punishable by up to five years in prison.

The hacking of the Municipal Water Authority of Aliquippa and other utilities around the country is prompting new warnings from U.S. security officials at a time when states and the federal government are wrestling with how to harden water utilities against cyberattacks.The danger, officials say, is hackers gaining control of automated equipment to shut down pumps that supply drinking water or contaminate drinking water by reprogramming automated chemical treatments. Besides Iran, other potentially hostile geopolitical rivals, including China, are viewed by U.S. officials as a threat.

Youth advocates are working hard to defuse the trauma of gun violence in Florida, even as more kids are caught with guns.

A workshop by the board is scheduled for earlier in the day, beginning at 1 p.m. The meeting itself starts at 6 p.m. Tuesday. All meetings can be viewed here.