Florida

A man’s body was found by a beachgoer on Hutchinson Island off the coast of Florida after what a sheriff’s office is calling “a tragic accident.”

A third candidate for public office has come to forward to say a sheriff on Florida’s Space Coast offered help in getting a job in exchange for leaving a race and backing his favored candidate. Kimberly Musselman, a prosecutor in Brevard County, told Florida Today she was asked by Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey to bow out of her race...

The Justice Department has been investigating the potential mishandling of classified information after the National Archives and Records Administration said it had retrieved from Mar-a-Lago 15 boxes of records containing classified information earlier this year

In a lengthy email statement Monday, the former President wrote about what he called an ‘unannounced raid’ on his Florida estate.

A Secret Service official told NBC News the FBI notified the agency early Monday about the bureau’s intention to execute a search warrant at the former president’s home.

Gabby Petito’s family on Monday notified Utah officials of plans to file a wrongful death lawsuit alleging that police failed to recognize their daughter was in a life-threatening situation last year when officers investigated a fight between her and her boyfriend. The fight happened weeks before authorities say the boyfriend killed her while the couple was on a cross-country van...

A vegan woman convicted of murder in the malnutrition death of her young son must wait a bit longer to learn her sentence.

Two people have been found dead, eight others were rescued and a search for survivors was underway in waters off the Florida Keys Friday, U.S. Coast Guard officials said. Coast Guard officials said crews had responded to reports of people in the water off the coasts of the Lower Florida Keys. At least two people were dead and eight...

A Florida woman has sued Equifax claiming she was denied a car loan because of a 130-point mistake she says was part of a larger group of credit score errors the ratings agency made this spring due to a coding problem.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has suspended a state attorney who had vowed to not enforce the state’s new 15-week abortion law. DeSantis announced the suspension of Hillsborough County State Attorney Andrew Warren at a news conference Thursday morning.

A woman with an open bottle of Jack Daniel’s whiskey in a bag was arrested for driving a golf cart on Florida’s busiest interstate while drunk.

A Florida Keys man is facing grand theft and animal cruelty charges after authorities said he stole his roommate’s $1,800 pet parrot.

A legal campaign is underway to protect outdoor workers in Miami-Dade County from the heat. “Que Calor” or “How Hot” would require access to water and breaks to rest in the shade for farmworkers, plant nursery workers, day laborers, construction workers and others on the front lines of an increasingly hotter climate. Workers who show signs of heat illness must...

Farmworkers in South Florida are supporting efforts to create safety standards, including heat provisions and treatment for heat illness, as climate change makes working conditions deadly for some.

A 29-year-old Florida man suspected of inhaling nitrous oxide from a whipped cream dispenser before causing a fatal crash has pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide

Investigators have confirmed that remains unearthed in a Florida junk yard 41 years ago match a missing teenager, the victim of a serial killer now imprisoned for life in California, sheriff’s officials said.

The sentencing trial for the man who killed 17 people and wounded 17 others in the Parkland high school shooting more than four years ago began Monday with opening statements from the lead prosecutor and emotional testimony from some of the teachers and students who witnessed the shooting. Jurors are deciding whether Nikolas Cruz will be sentenced to death or…

Authorities say a Florida woman was found dead after falling in a pond and being grabbed by two alligators. The Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office says the elderly woman was seen falling into the pond along a golf course in Englewood, Florida, and struggling to stay afloat.

A Miami man who’s spent more than a week in the hospital battling monkeypox is sharing his painful journey on social media in an effort to bring attention to the outbreak.

A family who decided to spend the Fourth of July in the waters of Florida’s Treasure Coast got quite the surprise: a manatee who tried to take their son’s surfboard for a spin. Leesa Blais posted the video on her Facebook page showing the friendly sea cow approaching her along with Blais’ husband and twin sons when they were...