Florida

The Pinellas County Sheriff's Office isn't responding to questions about how a sunbather was run over by one of its deputies who was driving an SUV on St. Pete Beach Wednesday afternoon. 

A Ring camera captured a couple’s mad dash to the house, along with their tiny dog, in order to narrowly escape a charging black bear in Florida.

After the mom caught her 19-year-old son smoking cigars in his room and told him to stop, investigators said he shot her through his door and killed her, then fled from the house.

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd says he is "hotter than a bare butt on a tin roof in August" after learning a sheriff’s volunteer officer was caught selling prescription pills out of a patrol car while in uniform.

A Florida sheriff arrested his own daughter, charging her with meth trafficking. "Methamphetamine does not discriminate & neither do we. It does not matter who you are – no one is immune or exempt."

A sheriff in Florida is encouraging residents to take gun safety courses after a homeowner fired multiple shots at an intruder on Wednesday, stopping the individual who allegedly broke into several homes.

The boy told investigators that Amber Chapman put him in a dryer, closed the door and he “went around and round," according to the arrest affidavit.

Ashley and her father, John Moberg, were in the parking lot outside Steinbrenner Field when they saw a flash, heard a bang and the next moments became a blur.

Thousands of crypto enthusiasts are gathering in Miami for Bitcoin 2022 as the city builds its reputation as one of the key locations to develop blockchain technology.

Police said video evidence contradicted the worker's statement that she walked out onto the balcony and visually checked the bridge for vehicles or pedestrians, saying her actions showed "reckless disregard of human life."

Biologists say they have now documented "antagonistic" interactions between a Florida bobcat and a python at the Big Cypress National Preserve in the Everglades.

A Florida student was arrested last week over an alleged "kill list," while her mother was taken into custody on unrelated charges, authorities said. 

Cocoa Beach police arrested Candice Williamson Bartell, 53, on Tuesday at Theodore Roosevelt Elementary School.

Florida House Bill 1557, a parental rights education bill dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill by critics, has become a subject of contention in the state.

A Tampa Dunkin' worker accused of punching and killing a 77-year-old customer for calling him the "N" word will spend 2 years on house arrest after pleading guilty to felony battery. Prosecutors said the sentence took into account the "despicable racial slur" and verbal abuse the victim used, along with the worker's "lack of intent to cause the victim's death."

A South Florida elementary school teacher who had to be hospitalized after she was attacked by a 5-year-old student was so severely injured, she had to be intubated and will need surgery, according to her union. They say this is the third time the same child has violently attacked his teacher and sent her to the hospital.

According to the Polk County School District, Rhonda Rice is accused of biting two students in an attempt to get a jar of pickles from them.

Police say a South Florida elementary school teacher had to be carried out of the classroom on a stretcher and hospitalized after a 5-year-old student attacked and beat her, leaving her unresponsive.