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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Florida is letting a congressional candidate put the name of his web address on the ballot. Why? Because Eddie Gonzalez went bef...

A newlywed couple on their "pre-honeymoon" narrowly escaped being impaled by metal debris left on the southbound lanes of I-95 in South Florida. Sa...

56 percent of Floridians still support the state's controversial "Stand Your Ground" law, according to a Quinnipiac University study. The poll quer...

About half of Florida’s school districts -- including Broward County's -- mislead parents into thinking that providing a social security number for ...

CASSELBERRY, Fla. -- A 6-year-old central Florida boy has died five years after he nearly drowned in a backyard pool. Grandmother Maggie Cosmillo cal...

A semi tractor trailer loaded with gallons and gallons of beer flipped over on I-95 Monday, causing 55,000 pounds of Heineken and Amstel Light to spil...

MIAMI — Alberto has weakened to a tropical depression as it spins off the coast of the Carolinas. The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami s...

MIAMI — For freshman Sen. Marco Rubio, a rising GOP figure seen as a possible Mitt Romney running mate, there are questions about whether potent...

On Tuesday, a 40-year-old Florida dental assistant was arrested and charged with aggravated battery with a deadly weapon after a domestic dispute. ...

Federal authorities have indicted a Florida man for posing as Justin Bieber online, promising young girls backstage passes and free tickets in exchang...

Twelve students and 2 teachers at McArthur High School in Hollywood are being treated in a hospital decontamination area after breaking out in mysteri...

ORLANDO, Fla. -- The federal agency that monitors worker safety has opened an investigation into the illness of a U.S. postal worker who became sick a...

A national resolution to urge education administrators to rely less on standardized testing is gaining a wave of support in South Florida. The Palm...

Loose monkeys aren't the only primates making news in Florida. The Brevard Zoo in Melbourne, Florida recently welcomed their first baby saki monkey...

Is the entire state of Florida sinking into the Atlantic? Just a week after a massive sinkhole displaced a family in Orlando, another widening land...

One of Florida's official state animals -- the endangered Florida panther -- was hit by a car last month and left to die on the side on State Road 82 ...

Mitt Romney recently slammed the morning-after pill as an "abortive pill," but the Republican presidential candidate will be hobnobbing with its manuf...

A loose monkey in Central Florida inspired a rash of 911 calls when the sneaky primate was spotted climbing through trees and in backyards. The mon...

A 13-year-old boy was arrested Friday when he allegedly brought a machete to a Fort Myers school bus stop and chased a group of elementary school stud...

Which is the smuttiest city in America? Is it bondage-friendly San Francisco? Las Vegas with its nearby legal Bunny Ranch brothel? Los Angeles for its...

WINDERMERE, Fla. -- A large sinkhole edging dangerously close to a central Florida home has forced a family to move out. Officials say the sinkhole o...

Two Florida men were arrested Thursday and charged with killing a 7-foot gator. Police believe they went after the animal with a golf club and then cu...

DESTIN, Fla. -- A Florida Panhandle county's former tourism director died of an apparent drug overdose Friday, a day after being accused of misusing p...

A former Okaloosa County Tourist Development director under investigation for using BP oil funds to purchase his $747k home and bed tax dollars to pur...