Four people, including a UPS driver, were killed Thursday after robbers stole the driver’s truck and led police on a chase that ended in gunfire at a busy South Florida intersection during rush hour, the FBI said.
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An attorney for a transgender teenager asked an 11th Circuit panel Thursday to require a Florida school district to allow the teen to use the bathroom matching his gender identity.
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Republican leaders on Wednesday tried to distance themselves from a Florida congressional candidate who sent a fundraising letter stating that “anti-American radical Democrats” should be hung for treason.
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George Zimmerman, the Florida man acquitted of murdering black teen Trayvon Martin in 2012, is suing Martin’s family as well as an attorney and prosecutors for malicious prosecution and defamation in an explosive $100 million lawsuit filed Wednesday.
Read moreTwenty-five people filed separate lawsuits against former Jackson County, Fla., sheriff’s Officer Zachary Wester, claiming he planted drugs on them: more than 100 cases Wester brought have been dropped, according to the Tallahassee Democrat.
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President Donald Trump lambasted the impeachment proceedings against him at what was dubbed a ‘homecoming’ rally in his first event in Florida since he changed his permanent residency to his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach.
Read moreAn attorney for one of the nation’s largest commercial real estate brokerage firms asked an 11th Circuit panel Thursday to keep in federal court a conspiracy and fraud class action accusing the company of selling nursing homes with invalid licenses.
Read moreA Florida appeals court ruled that the way candidates’ names are listed on ballots in the state is unconstitutional. Currently, the party in control of the governorship has its candidates listed first in every race and evidence shows the first-listed candidates receive a 5 percentage-point advantage over their competitors.
Read moreA South Florida newspaper is demanding grand jury records from wealthy sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s criminal case, in hopes the documents will shed light on the role Sunshine State prosecutors played in his sidestepping a long prison term.
Read moreA 33-year-old orangutan granted legal personhood by a judge in Argentina is settling into her new surroundings at the Center for Great Apes in central Florida.
Read moreTourists and families spent more than $40 billion on theme parks last year, but according to new research released Tuesday, the areas around the parks are more likely to suffer from higher crime rates.
Read moreA year out from the next presidential election, the Florida Supreme Court is poised to decide whether felons must pay fines and restitution to cast their ballot in that race.
Read moreA Florida woman sued Lee County and her trailer park in federal court for not allowing her to keep four chickens, which are her emotional support animals.
Read moreA federal judge refused to dismiss all claims from a deaf driver against the St. John’s (Fla.) County Sheriff and a deputy who allegedly beat up the deaf man and falsely arrested him for the traffic offense of following too close.
Read moreResponding to stinging criticism, President Donald Trump has abruptly reversed his plan to hold the next year’s Group of Seven world leaders’ meeting at his Doral golf resort in Florida.
Read moreFlorida cannot deny the right to vote to felons unable to pay restitution or fines, a federal judge ruled late Friday.
Read moreTwo Florida Supreme Court justices and 11th Circuit nominees breezed through their initial Senate hearings Wednesday, moving the Atlanta-based appeals court closer to having a majority of judges appointed by Republican presidents.
Read moreFederal prosecutors on Tuesday secured the 25-year sentence they wanted for the head of the colossal Woodbridge Group real estate investment fraud scheme, which stretched from Florida to California and bilked more than 7,000 victims.
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