A Senate committee took the first step in compensating the families of Groveland Four — the Black men who were falsely accused of rape in Lake County in 1949 and suffered at the hands of racist ...

A state senator from Orlando is pushing a significant bill that would compensate the descendants of the Groveland Four.

Norma Padgett, who as a young housewife falsely accused four black men of raping her near Groveland, Florida, in 1949, has died at 92. Her claims propelled a seminal criminal case that helped change ...

A White woman who falsely accused four Black men of rape in the Jim Crow-era South in 1949 has died at the age of 92. Norma Padgett Upshaw claimed the four men – Ernest Thomas, Samuel Shepherd, ...

After a dramatic, hour-long meeting that recalled events from nearly seven decades ago, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and the state's three-member Cabinet granted posthumous pardons Friday to four African ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Florida has formally cleared four Black men who were falsely accused of raping a white woman more than seven decades ago. At the local prosecutor's request, a judge on ...