Diving For Diamond, Top Cop In Hot Water, Football Firing: FL Top News

FLORIDA — During a season dedicated to inspiring joy to the world and peace on Earth, not all Floridians got the message. As the holiday season got underway, Florida law enforcement officials investigated some especially heinous crimes including the death of a woman after being struck in the head with an axe, a gas station patron caught on video attacking another customer with an aluminum baseball bat, then striking him with his car, a shooting at Florida A&M University that killed one and injured four, and a warrant issued for a woman accused of setting fire to her own home with her two cats and a dog inside.

See these stories and more on this week's Florida Patch sites.

• MCR Health Fires CEO Facing Felony Charge In Pinellas County: Report
• Clearwater Woman Accused Of Setting House On Fire, 2 Cats Dead
• Video: Tampa Top Cop Apologizes For Behavior After Being Pulled Over
• Grateful To Be Alive, Hurricane Ian Victims Thankful For Kindness
• Dover Woman Held Against Will Freed With Help Of K-9 Specter: Sheriff
• Woman Intentionally Strikes Deputies With Car, Says Polk Sheriff
• Woman Found With Axe In Head Dies 4 Days Later; Pinellas Man Charged
• Thanksgiving Day 5K Threatened By Reckless Driver: St. Pete Police
• Child Sexual Abuse Images Spark Charges Against Tarpon Springs Man
• School Custodian In Tampa Sentenced In Child Porn Possession Case: DOJ
• Methamphetamine Sales Lead To Prison Term For Plant City Man: DEA
• Pinellas Man Pleads Guilty In Fraud Case Naming Trump, Epstein
• Gibsonton Man Arrested After Report He Planned To Burn Down Hospital
• NFL’s Odell Beckham Jr. Removed From FL Flight: Reports
• $5M Lawsuit Over Mac N Cheese Cook Time Filed By FL Woman
• Woman Dies After Jumping Off I-4 Overpass Into Traffic Below
• 9-Year-Old Child's Body Recovered After Falling Into Polk County Lake
• Man Dives After Engagement Ring He Dropped In Sarasota Bay: Video
• 1 Killed, 4 Injured In Florida A&M Shooting: Officials
• North Miami Football Player Shot To Death, Teen Charged: Reports
• Florida Oath Keepers Leader Guilty Of Seditious Conspiracy In Jan. 6 Attack
• Gators QB Jalen Kitna Charged With Child Porn Possession
• St. Pete Man Dies After Being Thrown From Van On I-275: FHP
• Girl Fights Off Shark At South FL Beach, Survives Attack: Reports
• Polk Gas Station Patron Attacked With Bat, Run Over By Car, Say Police
• Dover Woman Held Against Will Freed With Help Of K-9 Specter: Sheriff
• Sarasota High School Fires Football Coach: SHS Athletics
• Man Shot Brother, Who Was Found Lying In St. Pete Driveway: Sheriff