A news helicopter captured yet more manatee harassment in Florida, this time in Sarasota. Video shows a herd of manatees attracting nearby beachgo...

Florida may finally escape its fate as a national embarrassment during elections: Florida Governor Rick Scott has signed a bill reinstating additional...

Before there was Disney World, Universal Studios or Legoland, tourists were lured to Florida for one very odd attraction: ostrich racing. The sport...

A father and son from Palm Beach County were rescued in northwest Broward after their airboat ran aground and took on water in the Everglades Friday a...

The vehicle collisions looked like typical South Florida accidents with motorists and passengers reporting they needed treatment from chiropractors an...

An 11-year-old Florida boy has died after being shot by a four-year-old relative on Mother's Day at a Lake City apartment complex, according to a Depa...

Florida House Speaker Will Weatherford said Monday lawmakers will wait until next year to "address" House members' drastically low health insurance pr...

Florida residents driving in Winter Park Sunday got some surprising instructions from one of the city's portable traffic signs. News station WFTV s...

A Broward County family got an unexpected surprise when they woke on Mother's Day and saw an 8-foot-alligator staring at them through their front door...

Florida lawmakers let two important LGBT rights bills languish this year, sealing the state's reputation as an "anti-gay state" for another 12 months....

Students know him as David Mech, a 36-year-old doctorate student who teaches Boca Raton teens as "the Happy/Fun Math Tutor." To others, he is Dave Po...

STARKE, Fla. -- Brian Speer thought he had completed all of his obligations when he registered in Bradford County as a convicted sex predator after se...

Despite the fact that more than half of Floridians favor stricter gun control in the state, according to a recent Quinnipiac University poll, lawmaker...

They don't call Florida "The Gunshine State" for nothing. Not only did a lawmaker make gun-loading noises on the House floor to celebrate when Cong...

A week after a missing Pennsylvania mother turned up alive after 11 years in Florida, she's behind bars. On Friday Brenda Heist, 54, was arrested f...

Florida's unusually warm winter has created a deadly situation for the state's beloved manatee population. Warmer waters meant an earlier than norm...

OAKLAND PARK -- Southbound traffic on Interstate 95 came to a standstill for about four hours Sunday morning as police investigated a fatal shooting o...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Florida Democratic leaders want Republican Gov. Rick Scott to veto the state budget or call a special session after the Legislatu...

By Bill Cotterell TALLAHASSEE, Fla., May 3 (Reuters) - Florida legislators, following a trend among states bouncing back from the nati...

By Bill Cotterell TALLAHASSEE, Fla., May 3 (Reuters) - Still smarting from jokes about Florida's inability to run statewide elections,...

By Bill Cotterell TALLAHASSEE, Fla., May 2 (Reuters) - The Florida Senate sent Governor Rick Scott a bill on Thursday designed to redu...

The U.S. Bureau Of Labor Statistics has released data on the highest-paying jobs across the country based on annual wage estimates from 2012. The s...

While much of the country has blooming tulips and dogwoods to signal the arrival of Spring, South Florida gets the arrival of the dreaded grasshopper ...

Viewed from 500 feet up in a small Cessna, the vessel plowing across the ocean below looked like a tug towing a barge. But upon closer inspection, pil...