1+ day, 52+ min ago   (372+ words) A 42-year-old Lakeland woman faces aggravated child abuse charges after authorities said an autopsy revealed her 3-month-old son died from severe head trauma matching the shape of a ring she wore. Deputies with the Polk County Sheriff’s Office were called…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (259+ words) Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is offering “asylum” to the holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial, accusing the media of running a smear campaign against him. DeSantis posted his reaction on X on Friday, Sept. 11, following an NBC report…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (186+ words) A Florida man wanted on a child sex abuse charge was arrested Thursday evening in West Virginia following a multistate search, according to federal authorities. Alexander Kyle Nichols, 37, of Bradenton, Florida, was taken into custody at a hotel in Dunbar…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago   (147+ words) Authorities have issued a Florida Missing Child Alert for six children last seen in Daytona Beach who may now be traveling through Georgia with two adults. According to investigators, the children were last seen in the area of the 100 block…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (421+ words) Two Lake Worth residents were arrested for allegedly running a large-scale theft operation that bought and resold stolen baby formula across multiple Florida counties, bringing in more than $1.1 million in sales, authorities announced. Mohammed Alsaidi, 59, and Zeina Abdul-Hassan Sou Zabib,…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (281+ words) Illustration of a Saharan Dust Cloud A massive, 3,000-mile plume of dust from the Sahara Desert is traveling across the Atlantic Ocean and is scheduled to reach Florida early next week. The late-season dust cloud is being carried by strong…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (402+ words) The Florida Supreme Court has granted death row inmate Khadafy Kareem Mullens permission to pursue a belated appeal regarding a lower court order from February 4, 2026. In a ruling issued Thursday, the court closed one case and opened a new one…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (305+ words) Daniel Owen Conahan Jr. A 72-year-old man convicted in one of southwest Florida’s most notorious serial murder investigations is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on Thursday. Daniel Owen Conahan Jr. was sentenced to death for the 1996 kidnapping and…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (351+ words) A South Florida vacation ended in a harrowing escape Sunday when a woman fled her Pompano Beach hotel room wrapped only in a T-shirt after being assaulted, choked, and held against her will by her boyfriend, according to Broward Sheriff’s…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (562+ words) Laurel wilt (Credit: Panorama Tree Service) HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. – A deadly tree disease that has swept across Florida is threatening residential yards throughout the Tampa Bay area, putting backyard avocado trees, camphor shade trees, and native bays at risk, according…...