A succession of intense winter freezes has triggered a sharp increase in manatee mortality across Southwest Florida.

The waters surrounding Lee County carry countless dangers, a major one being rip currents. The sheriff wants residents to be ...

Florida has executed a death row inmate 50 years after he raped and murdered his brother's 13-year-old stepdaughter while Texas put an inmate to death for killing two Christian music producers during ...

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said his office is assisting the Ninth Circuit with its "ongoing criminal investigation" into Sloth World Orlando. Uthmeier issued a letter in response to state ...

Helpful addresses and phone numbers to report crimes in the metro area. Lincoln police officers arrested a 36-year-old Jacksonville, Florida, man suspected in the killing of another man inside a ...

MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. (WWSB) - Manatee County officials are holding a safety study for El Conquistador Parkway after a 67-year-old cyclist was killed when he was hit by a truck. Patrick Franklin died ...

James Hitchcock has lived under a death sentence for nearly half a century. On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to stay his execution. James Hitchcock appears in Florida prison mug shots ...

A 13-year-old boy died last month in an e-bike crash in East San Jose. Weeks earlier, a 4-year-old Burlingame boy was killed and a 6-year-old girl injured in a chain-reaction crash sparked by an ...

These highlights were written by the reporters and editors who worked on this story. For 30 minutes, Brian Tracey lay naked and unable to breathe on the floor of the medical ward at the St. Johns ...