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The children were released to their mother’s custody. She had reported her vehicle stolen and her children missing, authorities said.

A 13-foot alligator was spotted with human remains in its mouth in a canal in unincorporated Largo, Florida.

The man was shot in front of his 8-year-old son while helping clear limbs from his mother’s property, the woman said.

Three former staffers in Florida’s top law enforcement agency told NBC News they could not get behind the statement that state crime was at “a 50-year low.”

New bodycam video released by the Martin County Sheriff’s Office captured the moments after an Amazon delivery driver was bitten by a “highly venomous” rattlesnake in Florida.

Mark Summerset needed 18 stitches after being bitten while surfing at New Smyrna Beach in Florida, considered by many to be the shark bite capital of the world.

An Amazon delivery driver was hospitalized and in serious condition after she was bitten Monday by a “highly venomous” rattlesnake in Florida, officials said.

The idea that Rep. Matt Gaetz will run for Florida governor in 2026 has been the topic of several conversations in Tallahassee over the past few days, including during a reception Sunday night for the incoming speaker of the Florida House.

A Florida reptile park has taken in an alligator that lost its nose and upper jaw to a fight or boat propeller. Gatorland Orlando said over the weekend that the injured alligator came from a lake in nearby Sanford.

Winnie the Pooh, is that you? Parts of Magic Kingdom in Orlando, Florida, were closed Monday after reports of a bear on the grounds.

A bear that was spotted in a tree at Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom on Monday was captured after the sighting led to part of the park being closed.

 A 12-year-old Palm Beach County boy is being hailed a hero after he saved a man’s life with CPR he said he learned while watching “Stranger Things” on Netflix.

Joseph Ruddy, a prosecutor at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Tampa, was captured on video offering his business card to police after a hit-and-run, while his blood-alcohol level tested over twice the legal limit.

Bodycam video captured Joseph Ruddy, one of the nation’s most prolific federal drug prosecutors, offering a police officer his Department of Justice business card after crashing into another vehicle on the Fourth of July.

According to a criminal complaint filed in Miami, the Coast Guard spotted 51-year-old Reza Baluchi Aug. 26 off the coast of Tybee Island, Georgia. Baluchi told the Coast Guard he was attempting to ride the “hydro-pod” vessel to England.

Hurricane Lee rapidly strengthened to a Category 5 storm Thursday night, with wind speeds doubling in less than 36 hours.

A three-legged bear broke into the patio of a Florida home, startling a 13-year-old boy and his dog.

Groups of neo-Nazis and white supremacists spread antisemitic, white supremacist and anti-LGBTQ messages outside of Disney World and in the nearby Orlando area on Saturday, in the latest examples of rising antisemitism in the U.S., officials said.

A remote seaside enclave known as “Florida’s Last Frontier” took much of the pounding from Hurricane Idalia when it struck the state’s west coast as a Category 3 storm last week.

Florida residents living along Hurricane Idalia’s path of destruction on Friday were still picking through piles of rubble where homes once stood, throwing tarps over ripped-apart roofs and gingerly navigating streets left underwater or clogged with fallen trees and dangerous electric wires.