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

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 ...

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 planned Orlando attraction, Sloth World, has been canceled before its opening. The closure follows a state report detailing the deaths of 31 sloths in its care. The owner disputes the report, ...

Chadwick Scott Willacy, convicted of first-degree murder for setting his elderly neighbor on fire after she allegedly caught him burglarizing her home, maintained his innocence right before being ...

Florida is reporting a sharp decline in fentanyl-related overdose deaths, with state data showing fatalities dropped by more than 40 percent in two years. But health experts and families warn the ...

A 26-year-old man is facing two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of two University of South Florida doctoral students who went missing last week, local authorities said Saturday. The ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Former University of South Florida student Hisham Abugharbieh is charged with premeditated murder in the deaths of ...

While fentanyl overdose deaths in Florida have decreased health experts and advocates warn that limited testing and increased Narcan use mask the true scope of the crisis State and federal data show ...

BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. — Florida’s manatees are already listed as a threatened species, and now a new study published in Conservation Biology says they are among the marine mammals most at risk from ...