The first death warrant of 2025 signed by Gov. Ron Desantis involves a Charlotte County man convicted of murdering a couple back in 1997. It happened at a sod farm in Port Charlotte. James D. Ford, 64 ...

Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday signed a death warrant for a man convicted of brutally murdering a couple at a Charlotte County sod farm in 1997.

South Forsyth hired James Thomson, Central Florida’s director of internal scouting, as its football coach Wednesday.

James D. Ford, who was convicted in the 1997 murders ... who were found shot and bludgeoned to death at South Florida Sod Farm in a remote part of Charlotte County, on April 7, 1997.