via fox8: A former student armed with a rifle stalked the halls of a Florida school, breaking windows and shooting terrified students in a massacre that left 17 people dead Wednesday, authorities said. The suspect, Nikolas Cruz, 19, had been expelled from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School over disciplinary problems, Broward County Public Schools Superintendent […]
While discussing her first-round victory at Wimbledon, tennis star Venus Williams broke down when asked about a car crash she was involved in last month that claimed the life of a passenger in another vehicle. Reporters at the London tournament asked Williams on Monday about her “emotions” this past month and how she was coping, and for the […]
The six boys charged this week with breaking into a home and stealing a Porsche, a safe stuffed with more than $200,000 in cash and two loaded handguns were so young that only one was old enough to drive. But the Fort Lauderdale teens — ages 14 to 16 — are experienced in crime well beyond […]
Hurricane Matthew pelted Florida with heavy rains as the deadly storm steamed ever closer to the coast with potentially catastrophic winds of 130 mph Thursday. Two million people across the Southeast were warned to flee inland. It was the most powerful storm to threaten the U.S. Atlantic coast in more than a decade, and had […]
Residents and tourists on Thursday were ordered to evacuate the coastal areas of southeast Florida and South Carolina as Hurricane Matthew surged toward the U.S. after battering the Bahamas, Haiti, and other parts of the Caribbean, reports USA Today. The storm on Wednesday hammered the Bahamas and whipped toward Florida after “killing at least 21 people in Haiti and […]
Florida Rep. Corrine Brown (D-FL) recently lost her congressional seat and is embroiled in an alleged corruption scandal.
A Florida mother is facing child abuse charges after she allegedly beat her son for his failing grades, leaving him with a black eye.
Members of the Florida Republican Party conducted a secret meeting to lay out a plan to unseat Corrine Brown through redistricting.
Two Florida boys became heroes after they rescued children from an Orange County mobile home fire on Tuesday. According to NBC affiliate WESH Orlando, Isiah Francis,…
Florida State University warned of a “dangerous situation on campus” early Thursday morning and asked students to stay away from windows after a gunman reportedly opened fire inside a library. Two people were hospitalized with gunshot wounds, the nursing supervisor at Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare told the campus newspaper. But she would not elaborate […]
The Rev. Al Sharpton, radio host Tom Joyner and the parents of slain teenagers Trayvon Martin and Jordan Davis are coming to Tallahassee on Monday to take part in a march and rally against Florida’s Stand Your Ground law. Also participating are family members of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old boy whose killing in 1955 […]
Malcolm Ramsey (pictured) won $500 a week for life, after winning the lottery in St. Petersburg, Fla., but he opted for the taxed lump sum…