Victims of the Pulse gay nightclub massacre that claimed 49 lives took to a Florida appellate court Tuesday in hopes of holding security giant G4S liable for giving firearms training to the killer in the years leading up to the attack.
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Probing the gun-possession conviction of a Florida felon, the Supreme Court wrestled, not for the first time Tuesday, with a law that toughens prison time for people with specific criminal records.
Read moreVice President Mike Pence rallied a Florida church full of potential Latino voters on Thursday evening by appealing to their faith and announcing a disaster declaration for Puerto Rico.
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You never know what you’ll get when you go fishing in Florida. You might accidentally catch an alligator, a snake — or, for one man, the oldest grouper on record.
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A shooting at a naval air station in Pensacola last month was an act of terrorism motivated by jihadist ideology, the Justice Department said Monday.
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A proposed constitutional amendment to allow residents of the Sunshine State to choose their electric providers will not appear on the ballot this fall, the Florida Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
Read moreAn insurance company, as subrogee for the Florida Education Association (FEA), claims in federal court that Mildred K. Griffis aka Kelly Griffis “stole $73,600 from the FEA” while she was president of the association’s Clay County affiliate.
Read moreThe 11th Circuit upheld a federal ruling Friday afternoon, refusing to dismiss a disability discrimination lawsuit brought by a deaf rights advocacy group over Florida’s alleged refusal to provide captioning for live and archived video recordings of legislative proceedings.
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It’s a rite of passage in schools across the U.S.: frog dissection.
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A Florida jury has decided that a Disney Cruise Line worker deserves $4 million from the company based on her claim that she got inadequate medical care from ship doctors after she was hit by a car during a port of call.
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New polls from two southern states show former Vice President Joe Biden beating President Donald Trump if the 2020 election was held today.
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The rumors swirled for decades: A dark history long lay buried under the grassy knolls and manicured lawns of a country club in Florida’s capital city.
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and a prominent attorney clashed Friday over whether a ballot measure to increase Florida’s minimum wage to $15 by 2026 will prompt companies to increase automation and shed low-paying jobs.
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Changes made two years ago to Florida’s controversial “stand your ground” self-defense law that switched the burden of proof cannot be applied retroactively, the state’s high court ruled Thursday.
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The latest Chinese intruder at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida appeared in court Thursday, with a judge appointing a public defender as her lawyer and ordering that she remain in custody.
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A Florida congressman who was impeached as a federal judge 20 years ago is set to vote Wednesday night to approve just the third presidential impeachment in U.S. history.
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A former South Florida policeman was sentenced to 10 years in prison Wednesday for making two teenagers run down a desolate street naked after pulling them over for a traffic violation.
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Here are a handful of zany stories that came out of Florida in 2019, compiled from police and local news reports.
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