FLORIDA NEWS

Florida police are looking for a man, who they said was caught on camera breaking into a restaurant and then defecating on the floor.

A Florida prosecutor who Gov. Ron DeSantis had suspended will remain out of office since a federal judge on Friday ruled that he does not have the power to reinstate the prosecutor — despite ruling that the removal violated the First Amendment and Florida Constitution.

Florida would make every student eligible for vouchers to attend private school with taxpayer money under proposed legislation House Speaker Paul Renner said Thursday will be a priority for the session that begins in March.

The administration of Gov. Ron DeSantis is blocking a request to include an Advanced Placement course on African American studies for Florida high schoolers, saying it violates state law.

Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is asking state universities for the number and ages of their transgender students who sought the schools' help with hormones or sex reassignment surgery, according to a survey released Wednesday.

The office of Florida congressman Greg Steube says he sustained several injuries in an accident at his home on Florida's Gulf Coast.

Guests have this weekend to enjoy Disney’s Splash Mountain, before it closes for renovations to make way for a new themed attraction.

Florida deputies said they tracked down a man believed to have been caught sexually abusing a corpse.

No arrests have been made yet following a mass shooting in Fort Pierce on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, but authorities have identified a person of interest in connection to the crime that left a mother dead and many others injured.

Authorities in Oklahoma say they have found the remains of a child, and investigators are now trying to determine if the remains belong to a missing 4-year-old girl who is believed to have been murdered on Christmas Day.

The remains of a man who was reported missing after Hurricane Ian hit Florida’s Gulf Coast last year have been recovered from a sunken sailboat, sheriff’s officials said.

Gov. Ron DeSantis attacked President Joe Biden’s immigration policy Thursday amid a surge in migrants arriving in South Florida.

A man who thought he was getting a shoulder rub from a masseuse on Florida’s west coast got a lot more than he bargained for, according to authorities.

A man who fought with a deputy after locking three people in a garage he was renting was arrested Tuesday at his home near Orange City, according to the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office.

A person of interest in the homicide investigation of a Mount Dora couple found slain at a senior living facility was identified Wednesday evening, according to police.

More than six dozen threatened manatees are currently in rehabilitation centers in Florida and elsewhere amid a chronic starvation problem caused by water pollution, wildlife officials said Wednesday.

A man and woman from north Florida were arrested Tuesday after a 4-month-old baby boy was hospitalized with severe injuries, including a brain bleed.

An Orlando man fleeing Winter Garden police struck an officer with a car and bit another on the leg Tuesday evening after causing thousands of dollars in property damage at a convenience store, arrest affidavits show.

A person of interest in the deaths of a Central Florida husband and wife is in custody, according to Mount Dora Interim Police Chief Mike Gibson.

Deputies arrested a woman in Florida’s Panhandle on New Year’s Day after accusing her of shooting someone from her sedan — with her four children inside.