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MIAMI  — A Florida man choked to death after downing dozens of live roaches during a contest earlier this year in which the grand prize…

Every time you think you’ve seen everything under the sun, regarding Republican antics over President Barack Obama’s re-election last week, someone else does something that…

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Florida school-bus monitor Darryl Blue (pictured) has been charged with aggravated child abuse, after surveillance footage showed him choking an autistic student on a ride…

Officials from Miami-Dade County say they have finished counting absentee ballots and will begin counting the county’s 2,800 provisional ballots on Thursday afternoon. Election officials…

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An undercover investigation into an alleged betting pool involving a South Florida youth football league has uncovered shocking details about the group’s payment policies. According…

via CNN New polls of the two largest battlegrounds in the race for the White House show a close contest following the second presidential debate. In Florida, where there are 29 electoral votes, 48% of likely voters said they back GOP challenger Mitt Romney, and 45% said they support President Barack Obama, according to a […]

Jesse Watlington, 11, (pictured) was taken off life support Sunday after he was struck by a lightning bolt earlier in the week as he made his way…

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A Florida in-home caregiver has reportedly admitted to stealing jewelry from a dying, terminally-ill woman whose care she was responsible for, the Sun Sentinel reports.…

A Florida mother distraught by not being able to provide for her teenaged son attempted to kill her child via a knife and baseball attack.…

Luis Antonio Santiago-Maldonado has been charged with first-degree murder after allegedly running over his girlfriend, Belinda Joyce Thomas, in front of her children (all pictured) in…

via CNN News Diana Nyad is back at it again — once more in the waters off Havana and heading, she hopes, to Key West, Florida. The 62-year-old endurance athlete jumped into waters off Cuba on Saturday afternoon, a day earlier than she and her Xtreme Dream team had originally planned, according to her Twitter […]

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Florida parents Natalie Fouche (pictured) and Albert Thomas Owens were arrested after allegedly leaving their 20-month-old son in their Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hotel…