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A Miami-Dade Supervisor of Elections employee has been fired after a ballot bin and bag fell off the worker’s truck and was found by a passerby.

A Miami-Dade Supervisor of Elections employee has been fired after a ballot bin and bag fell off the worker’s truck and was found by a passerby in an incident that was caught on camera.

A Florida woman accused of zipping her boyfriend in a suitcase and leaving him in there to suffocate was found guilty of murder on Friday, four years after what she had initially described to authorities as a case of drunken hide-and-seek gone wrong.

A new study shows a Burmese python’s maximal gape is 10.2 inches. The measurements equate to a circumference of 32 inches.

Hurricanes Helene and Milton are drawing attention to the environmental records of Republican Sen. Rick Scott and his Democratic challenger, former Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell.

The Burmese pythons have such large gapes because their lower jawbones are not fused at the front, and their skin is especially elastic.

Megan Garcia says the company’s chatbots encouraged her 14-year-old son, Sewell Setzer, to take his own life, according to the lawsuit.

Tara Alexis Sykes was taken into custody on Friday and charged with attempted murder while engaged in aggravated child abuse.

The ad encourages people to vote “yes” on a ballot initiative that would override the state’s abortion ban.

Joseph Malinowski was arrested Friday on multiple charges, including failing to appear in court, Tampa police said.

In a sharply worded ruling, U.S. District Judge Mark E. Walker issued a temporary restraining order calling threats by the Florida Department of Health “unconstitutional coercion.”

Royal Caribbean is facing legal trouble after passengers filed a lawsuit over hidden cameras placed in state rooms by a former employee.

President Joe Biden got a firsthand look Sunday at the devastation inflicted on Florida’s Gulf Coast by Hurricane Milton.

Several people have been detained in connection with the overnight shooting at an events center.

RAW: A Coast Guard helicopter crew rescued a man who was left clinging to an ice chest in the Gulf of Mexico after his boat was stranded overnight in waters roiled by Hurricane Milton.

Joseph Malinowski, now known on TikTok as “Lieutenant Dan,” told NBC News that he’ll only leave his boat if it begins to break apart in the storm.

Hurricane Milton made landfall in Florida Wednesday night.

Anticipation is building as Hurricane Milton barrels toward Florida. Now we’re hearing from those with ties to Connecticut whose homes are in the path of the monster storm. Some are hunkering down, while others are racing to get out. “I’ve been through a few hurricanes so I’ve seen stuff happen. So you just prepare,” Andre Bergeron, of Land O’...

The man accused of attempting to assassinate former President Donald Trump at his Florida golf course appeared in court on Monday after being indicted on additional charges.

The Justice Department revealed an indictment Friday charging a Florida man with threatening to kill his political opponent in 2021.