The Florida Senate unanimously approved $4 million in compensation for the families of the Groveland Four, a historic step ...

More than 70 years ago, four young Black men falsely accused of rape became the victims of a powerful Florida sheriff and a broken legal system.

House Democratic Leader Fentrice Driskell says the Senate unanimously passing the Groveland Four bill should send a “strong signal” of bipartisan momentum to House leaders. But the clock is ticking ...

A proposal to compensate the families of the Groveland Four is advancing in the Florida Senate, decades after the men were ...

The four African-American men were falsely accused in 1949 of raping a white woman in Lake County in what became one of the most-notorious cases from the state’s Jim Crow era. They were ...

A Florida Senate committee on Thursday signed off on an amendment that tacks a $4 million payout onto a bill meant to ...

Walter Irvin, Samuel Shepherd, Ernest Thomas and Charles Greenlee, who was only 16 -- were wrongly prosecuted or killed for the alleged rape of a white woman in Lake County in 1949.

Lake County officials are now seeking contractors for permanent repairs, keeping the road closed at confirmed sinkhole in ...

A proposal to compensate the families of the “Groveland Four” is headed to the Senate floor, while the House has yet to act ...

They were four Black men, one really just a teenager, wrongfully convicted of raping a white woman more than seventy years ago in Lake County.

GROVELAND, Fla. — Last year the state of Florida created the "Abandoned African American Cemeteries" Task Force. It came after the city of Clearwater built over a forgotten African American cemetery, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A state senator from Orlando is pushing a significant bill that would compensate the descendants of the Groveland Four - four men ...