Florida

Authorities say former NBA superstar Shaquille O’Neal stopped along a Florida highway to help a motorist stranded by a blown out tire

Dozens took to the streets over the weekend to protest Martin County, Florida’s, new mask ordinance, including a COVID survivor who lost two friends to the disease. Commissioners said it passed as an effort to slow the spread of the coronavirus through the county.

“The Most Magical Place on Earth” has reopened after nearly four months with new rules in place to help prevent the spread of COVID-19

Voting rights advocates are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to lift a stay on a federal judge’s ruling that allowed Florida felons to regain the right to vote, regardless of unpaid fines and other financial obligations

After four months of closures due to the coronavirus pandemic, those wanting to travel to Walt Disney World can start buying tickets again on Thursday.

Police have identified the Florida man who they say shot and killed an 11-year-old girl and her father over a dispute about a dog

Dr. Murtaza Akhter, an emergency room physician in Arizona, and Dr. Margaret J. Gorensek, an infectious disease specialist in Florida, joined LX News to describe the daily juggling act at their hospitals to care for a surge of new patients as coronavirus cases spike in their states.

A Florida legislator says he is recovering from the coronavirus but his parents are now infected

A man whose outburst was caught on camera at a Florida Costco has been terminated, according to the Ted Todd Insurance Agency. Filmmaker Billy Corben said the man was upset after being asked to wear a mask at a Costco in Fort Myers on June 27. The man identified as being in the video did not immediately respond to a...

Authorities in Florida say a woman discovered a human head on the side of the road while out jogging.

The U.S. is heading into the Fourth of July weekend with many parades and fireworks displays canceled, beaches and bars closed, and health authorities warning that this will be a crucial test of Americans’ self-control. They say this could determine the trajectory of the surging coronavirus outbreak. With confirmed cases climbing in 40 states, governors have ordered the wearing of...

More than 50,000 new cases were confirmed in the United States on Thursday.

The U.S. reported a record number of new daily coronavirus infections, surpassing 50,000 cases a day for the first time as many states struggled to contain the spread of the pandemic, blamed in part on Americans not wearing masks or following social distancing rules. In response, California and New York City joined a growing number of states and cities rolling…

A judge has sided with Walt Disney World in ruling that the theme park resort can refuse to give unlimited front-of-the-line passes to an autistic man whose mother says the accommodation should be made under the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Florida police involved in an incident in which a woman was hit by an officer, apparently at Miami International Airport, were “relieved of duty,” the director of Miami-Dade police said Wednesday.

Arizona recorded more coronavirus deaths, infections, hospitalizations and emergency-room visits in a single day than ever before in a crisis Wednesday across the Sunbelt that sent a shudder through other parts of the country and led distant states to put their own reopening plans on hold. In Florida, hospitals braced for an influx of patients, with the biggest medical center in...

Amid an alarming resurgence of coronavirus cases nationwide, leaders in several states are backtracking on reopening plans and ordering residents to wear masks in public.

Arizona’s Republican governor has shut down bars, movie theaters, gyms and water parks amid a dramatic resurgence of coronavirus cases.

A Houston bar owner who believed he could no longer provide a safe environment for his staff, customers and himself felt he had no choice but to shut down his business

Florida once again shattered its daily record for new coronavirus cases Saturday with more than 9,500 confirmed, pushing the state’s total to more than 132,500 as cases continued to rise rapidly in the state. The 9,585 new COVID-19 cases brought the state’s total to 132,545, according to figures released by the Florida Department of Health. Saturday’s total comes just one…