State agency fires worker in attempted ID theft
The Department of Business and Professional Regulation is notifying 150 people that they should check their credit reports.
The Department of Business and Professional Regulation is notifying 150 people that they should check their credit reports.
Two north Florida fisherman say they fell victim to a leaping sturgeon during a recent excursion on the Yellow River.
Florida's preliminary June unemployment rate of 5.5 percent was down slightly from a revised May figure but is still the second-highest in more than five years, state officials said Friday.
Authorities said a Fort Myers police officer was killed after responding to a downtown disturbance.
No tickets matched all five "Fantasy 5" numbers, meaning the 242 tickets with four numbers correct are worth $1,006.50 each, the Florida Lottery said Friday.
Sheriff's deputies used cadaver-sniffing dogs to search Friday for a 2-year-old Florida girl who mysteriously vanished more than a month ago, trying to determine what happened to the toddler whose mother was arrested after she came to police this week to report the disappearance.
Five guards at a Miami-Dade County prison are charged with smuggling drugs into the facility.
How many wildlife trappers does it take to catch 15 monkeys running loose in central Florida?
A former Disney World security guard will not be allowed to go back to work while the court tries to decide whether Disney has the right to ban employees from keeping guns locked in their vehicles.
A Jacksonville man survived after tumbling 80-feet over the Acosta Bridge, plummeting into the murky waters of the St. Johns River.
An internal affairs report says a Daytona Beach police officer demanded free coffee and tea from a Starbucks and threatened employees with slower emergency response times if they refused.
The oldest living manatee in captivity will celebrate his 60th birthday at the South Florida Museum's Parker Manatee Aquarium in Bradenton.
A former missionary turned police officer was shot and killed along with a suspect after police were called to a disturbance outside a downtown nightclub early Friday.
The Seminole Tribe and Gov. Charlie Crist want the Florida Supreme Court to reconsider its ruling that invalidated a deal expanding gambling at Indian casinos.
It's only a few months into the cotton growing season, but already the budding rows of cotton are dwarfed by towering weeds that starve them of sunlight, nutrients and water.
A former space coast elementary teacher will spend 30 days in jail for hosting a keg party for teenagers.
An Ocala man convicted of beating his 5-year-old son to death has been sentenced to life in prison.
Authorities say a woman who died in a small plane crash east of Tampa was a cancer patient who was being flown home after being treated at an area hospital.
Port Charlotte preschool teachers were looking through a two-year-old student's lunch box for a snack and found drugs instead.
Tropical Storm Fausto has neared hurricane strength early Friday in the Pacific, while Elida lost its hurricane status.