MIAMI (AP) - A U.S. senator is asking federal officials to investigate after reviewing data that shows doctors across the country prescribing alarmingly high rates of powerful high..

PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) - A Panhandle man has been convicted of murdering his wife and dumping her body in his car trunk. Prosecutors said Michael Parker carefully planned the killi..

MIAMI (AP) - Police have arrested 14 men they say are associated with rival Miami gangs and sold weapons to undercover police. Authorities also confiscated 31 guns during the month..

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - A 41-year-old southwest Florida man has been hospitalized after dousing himself with gasoline and lighting himself on fire. Hillsborough County Sheriff's deputie..

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (AP) - A South Florida man was arrested after he reportedly attacked a speaker with a pen at a Hollywood city meeting. The person who was attacked suffered a punctu..

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - A suspended Broward County school board member and her husband say they are not guilty of bribery and other charges brought in a corruption investigati..

VERO BEACH, Fla. (AP) - A fossil collector may have found a prehistoric bone with art work on it in Florida. Last year, James Kennedy cleaned off a 15-inch bone he had found two ye..

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - A scuba diver reportedly died after being pulled from the water off the coast of Fort Lauderdale. Police and the Coast Guard responded to a struggling ..

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) - A Deltona man has been sentenced to life in prison for fatally shooting an Orange City woman. A Volusia County judge sentenced 39-year-old Steven Bowman ..

BRADENTON, Fla. (AP) - A Bradenton man died from injuries sustained in a house fire. The Manatee County Sheriff's Office reports that firefighters responded to the home Tuesday nig..

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - A South Florida woman accused of forcing two Honduran sisters into the sex trade at Palm Beach County nightclubs has been sentenced to seven years in f..

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - Lawyers for the three teens charged with setting another boy on fire in Deerfield Beach last year have rejected a plea deal. The defendants, who have b..

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) - A North Carolina teenager accused of using the Internet to make fake bomb threats to six universities and to FBI offices in Louisiana and Colorado has plead..

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Race fans, turn off your engines. The Daytona 500 Experience in Florida is closing its doors next month because of the sluggish economy. Daytona Internat..

SOUTHWEST RANCHES, Fla. (AP) - Authorities in South Florida were en route to a report of three people injured at a high school. The Broward Sheriff's Office says a female student a..

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - The Florida Parole Commission has finalized the release date of a Melbourne woman who escaped from an Ocala prison 35 years ago. The panel Wednesday voted ..

BRADENTON, Fla. (AP) - Gulf coast authorities are searching for a bull who wandered away from a pasture. Authorities say a police officer was injured late Tuesday after his patrol ..

MIAMI (AP) - Authorities are searching for a handcuffed suspect who jumped into a bay near Miami while trying to evade police. Police arrested the unidentified man around 3 a.m. We..

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - A southwest Florida driver has been charged with hitting and killing a bicyclist then leaving the scene. Hillsborough County Sheriff's deputies arrested 29-year-..

FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Florida Panhandle officials are urging residents who find an unexploded device to leave it alone and contact authorities after a training land mine w..