FLORIDA

Foster Thorbjornsen told his followers on Facebook that, while he was out on a walk near his home Monday, he spotted an alligator floating in a lake about 20 feet from shore.

"While these inmates put our deputy in danger, there were others who did the right thing by coming to her aid, and for that, I am grateful," Sheriff Chad Chronister said.

“This is Florida. You got to expect to see a gator or you’re not having any fun,” a witness said.

"I think his intentions were to commit a terrorist act, a hate crime," West Palm Beach Deputy Chief Rick Morris said. "These people are not heroes that are doing the shooting. They're criminals. Some of them are terrorists."

The girl allegedly pulled the weapon out of the purse and fired two rounds at the victim who was fighting with her own mother.

A Florida man died after his car swerved off a highway and plunged into a pond infested with alligators.

Images shared by local media showed snipers lying on their stomachs with guns trained on the water as alligators swam around the pond.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is no stranger to signing unorthodox legislation into law which wins him favor with many conservative voters in the state.

The baby was sucking on a pacifier covered in fecal matter and had sores on their groin and thighs, officers said.

The victim, due to her "diminished mental capacity," often entered the rooms of other residents at the nursing home, police said.

Major airlines and the FAA will meet to attempt to find ways to improve air traffic.

Florida has announced the largest ban in its own history of math textbooks, largely on the grounds that they were including topics associated with critical race theory.

Police located Saige Stiles, 15, after a search spanning 11 hours.

The victim alerted a fellow passenger by showing a message on her phone.

The disease is preventable via the meningococcal conjugate vaccine.

A feud between Disney World and Florida's GOP has raised the question of revoking Disney's special privilege of self-governance in the state.

The woman disappeared Sunday evening from Florida's Navarre Beach area.

While the case remains under investigation, no foul play was suspected.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the "Don't Say Gay" bill into law on Monday.

According to detectives, the woman was transiently living out of her car with her children at the time of the incident.

The suspect jumped a fence and entered a playground where there were 25 children playing.