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WATCH: Chopper Catches Woman Doing The Unthinkable

Posted 05.24.2013 | Miami

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

No More 'Clusterf---ery'?

Posted 05.22.2013 | Miami

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

PHOTOS: One Of Our State's Oddest, Oldest Pastimes

Posted 05.20.2013 | Miami

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

Another Family Rescued From Everglades

Sun Sentinel | Wayne K. Roustan | Posted 05.18.2013 | Miami

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...

Feds: Sledgehammer Used In $20 Million Insurance Fraud

Sun Sentinel | Paula Mcmahon | Posted 05.17.2013 | Miami

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

4-Year-Old Accidentally Shoots 13-Year-Old To Death

Posted 05.15.2013 | Miami

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...

They Only Pay $8.43 A Month For Health Care!

Posted 05.15.2013 | Miami

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

LOOK: Hacked Traffic Sign REALLY Wants You To Get High

Posted 05.13.2013 | Miami

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

WATCH: Uninvited Mother's Day Visitor

Posted 05.13.2013 | Miami

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...

3-Year-Old Fatally Shoots Himself With Uncle's Gun

Posted 05.08.2013 | Crime

A 3-year-old Florida boy fatally shot himself Tuesday using a gun he found in the bedroom that he shared with his uncle. Jadarrius Speights was alo...

How Florida Failed Its LGBT Residents

Posted 05.09.2013 | Miami

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....

Former Porn Actor Sues School District

Sun Sentinel | Scott Travis | Posted 05.08.2013 | Miami

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...

Is This Going Too Far?

AP | KYLE HIGHTOWER | Posted 05.08.2013 | Miami

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...

Florida Fail After Fail After Fail After Fail After Fail

Posted 05.08.2013 | Miami

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

Gun Enthusiasts Urge Governor To Veto State's Only Gun Control Bill

Posted 05.07.2013 | Miami

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...

Runaway Mom Back In Jail

Posted 05.06.2013 | Miami

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...

PHOTOS: Adopt Me!

The Huffington Post | Amanda McCorquodale | Posted 05.24.2013 | Miami

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

Man Shot Dead While Driving On I-95

Sun Sentinel | Mike Clary | Posted 05.06.2013 | Miami

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

Medicaid Failure Leaves Over 1 Million Floridians Without Insurance

AP | KELLI KENNEDY and BRENDAN FARRINGTON | Posted 05.05.2013 | Miami

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

State Passes Record Budget, Including Million For Miami Museum

Reuters | Posted 05.05.2013 | Miami

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

Tallahassee Restores Early Voting! Will Scott Sign?

Reuters | Posted 05.04.2013 | Miami

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

Lawmakers Approve Limit On State-Run Insurance

Reuters | Bill Cotterell | Posted 05.03.2013 | Miami

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

25 Highest-Paying Jobs In South Florida

Posted 05.02.2013 | Miami

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...

PHOTOS: Florida's Wild Newborns

Posted 05.02.2013 | Miami

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 ...

Spotted Off Our Coast

Sun Sentinel | Robert Nolin | Posted 05.02.2013 | Miami

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...