By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Florida prosecutors knew the late millionaire and financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually assaulted teenage girls two years before they cut a plea deal that has long been criticized as too lenient and a missed opportunity to ...
By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday kept on hold efforts by Texas and Florida to limit how Facebook, TikTok, X, YouTube and other social media platforms regulate content posted by their users in a ruling that strongly defended the platforms' free ...
By DEVNA BOSE AP Health Writer
A man on Florida's northeast coast was bitten by a shark this weekend but is now recovering, authorities said Sunday, in the third shark attack in state waters over the past month.
Officials from the Nassau County Sheriff's Office Marine Unit responding to a ...
By DAVID FISCHER Associated Press
MIAMI (AP) — As Florida's ban on "lab-grown" meat is set to go into effect next week, one manufacturer hosted a last hurrah — at least for now — with a cultivated meat-tasting party in Miami.
California-based Upside Foods hosted dozens of guests ...
By DEVNA BOSE AP Health Writer
A man on Florida's northeast coast was bitten by a shark this weekend but is now recovering, authorities said Sunday, in the third shark attack in state waters over the past month.
Officials from the Nassau County Sheriff's Office Marine Unit responding ...
By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press
MIAMI (AP) — As Donald Trump narrows his options for a potential running mate, two politicians known to be on his list are from Florida, leaving open a scenario where his vice presidential nominee would have to move if the Republican ticket ...
By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The Coral Gables Art Cinema will be short more than $100,000 this year. About $150,000 has suddenly disappeared from the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra's budget. The Miami New Drama also has an unexpected $150,000 budget ...
By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press
A jury on Wednesday recommended a former prison guard trainee be sentenced to death for his execution-style murders of five women inside a Florida bank five years ago, a massacre that fulfilled his long-stated desire to kill.
Jurors voted 9-3 to ...
By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials on Tuesday warned doctors to be alert for dengue cases as the tropical disease breaks international records.
The virus, which is spread by mosquitoes, has been surging worldwide, helped by climate change. In barely six ...
BRADENTON, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man fatally shot his mother and two other women in separate locations before dying in a gunfight with deputies hundreds of miles away. Manatee County Sheriff Rick Wells identified the shooter as 28-year-old Javontee Brice. Authorities believe Brice killed the ...