Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush loved his Blackberry so much he had it painted into his official state portrait, but a new report shows the state's love affair with wireless devices may have gotten out of hand.
Gov. Charlie Crist said Tuesday if State Farm wants to pull out of the state's property insurance market it should not be allowed to do any business in Florida.
A federal agency is giving more than $28 million dollars to three Florida communities that have been slammed by high foreclosures and dropping home values.
The U.S. Coast Guard has suspended its search for a woman who reportedly fell from a cruise ship balcony off the coast of Cancun.
Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum said Thursday he has asked the federal government to prosecute the Seminole Indian tribe over its blackjack operations.
The attorney representing the man accused of shooting Jacksonville Jaguars offensive lineman Richard Collier will receive the addresses of the wounded player and two other witnesses, but they will be withheld from her client and the public.
Republicans kept control of the Florida Legislature by a comfortable margin Tuesday despite a Democratic tide that swept across much of the rest of the nation.
After a three-year legal battle, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers might finally be able to resume pat-down searches of fans at home games.
A medical center that allowed a patient to escape twice before he killed a sheriff's deputy has been ordered to stop admitting the mentally ill who have been involuntarily committed.
Tropical Storm Cristobal headed for the open Atlantic late Sunday as forecasters discontinued tropical storm warnings along the Carolinas.
Police say a registered sex offender from Georgia confessed to killing a 13-year-old girl whose body was discovered by a maid in a hotel room.
A French man pleaded guilty Thursday to attempting to sell four valuable paintings that were stolen last year from a French art museum in a brazen robbery by masked, armed thieves.
Government scientists are launching a five-year project Thursday aimed at safeguarding the world's chocolate supply by dissecting the genome of the cocoa bean.
Four people were killed and two sheriff's deputies were seriously wounded in two separate, but related shootings Saturday morning, authorities said.
Gov. Charlie Crist has signed a bill requiring Florida elementary schools to provide 30 minutes of continuous exercise daily for their students.
Police questioned a man arrested Friday at a Miami-area mall for possible links to the murders of a mother and daughter at a Boca Raton mall.
A 52-year-old woman convicted of running a high-end Washington prostitution ring that snagged Republican Sen. David Vitter killed herself Thursday, police said, weeks after her trial ended on charges that she said she would never go to prison for.
Four young men charged with unpremeditated murder in the shooting death of Washington Redskins star Sean Taylor have not been strangers to police. Still, nothing came close to what they faced Saturday.
A Broward County sheriff's deputy was shot and killed early Friday in the second shooting of a deputy in that county this week.
Gubernatorial front-runner Charlie Crist led a Republican ticket bidding for a near-sweep in Florida's statewide races Tuesday, with only U.S. Senate candidate Katherine Harris considered a likely loser among GOP candidates.
U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris doesn't have overwhelming support among fellow Republicans in her bid to be their nominee for U.S. Senate, according to a poll released Friday, despite her reputation as being a party heroine for her role in the 2000 presidential recount.
DAYTONA BEACH - On 17 miles of beach along the Volusia County coast, tens of thousands of sunbathers share the sand with motor vehicles. They seldom collide.
FORT PIERCE, Fla. -- She's been called "McNut" by TMZ.com and "loco 4 pollo" by PerezHilton.com.
JACKSONVILLE, FL -- Two elderly people on the city's Eastside were held up at gunpoint in their home Monday. According to the police report, it happened shortly before 9 a.m. on Phoenix Ave.
Excerpt: A man who reportedly had a stolen ATM card in his sock had to be threatened with a Taser before he stopped punching himself in the face.
Daytona Beach police announced this morning that they have found the person who dropped off several bags of clothes and more than $10,000 at a thrift store in October.
INVERNESS — One of Florida's most notorious rapists will spend the rest of his life in prison after a Citrus County judge gave the 60-year-old man a 210-year sentence.
WINTER PARK, Fla. -- Angry dog owners, upset at new leash rules at a popular dog park, staged a protest Sunday morning by unleashing their pets.
TAMPA, Fla. - Many people who have lost their jobs are ending up at a local bar, but not to drink -- to mix drinks and hopefully rake in some good cash. Larry Schwartz, a former fund-raiser at the University of South Florida, just graduated from bartending school.
PINE HILLS -- Authorities in Orange County are searching today for a barefoot woman wearing a leopard-print long-sleeve shirt who is accused of stabbing a man at a Laundromat.
Excerpt: The identity of man found dead inside a car in College Park on Monday afternoon has been confirmed as that of a Gainesville engineer missing since Feb. 11.
Excerpt: I was casually flipping through the channels the other day, much like I do every time I find myself with nothing in particular to do, when I saw Geraldo Rivera reporting on another missing child case.
Excerpt: Fake online solicitations for donations are surfacing as the search for a missing Putnam County girl continues, more than two weeks since she vanished from her home.
KISSIMMEE, Fla. -- A registered sex offender was arrested Tuesday after a woman discovered pornographic images of her 6-year-old daughter on a videotape in his home, Kissimee police said.
LAKE COUNTY, Fla. -- A Lake County woman, who was trying to help deputies, found herself behind bars for being an illegal immigrant. Rita Cote hasn't spent more than a day away from her three children, but now she's sitting in a Miami jail.
SORRENTO - Millions of people worldwide have laughed at "David After Dentist," an Internet video showing a young boy struggling with the aftermath of anesthesia from oral surgery.
---YouTube video on link page showing a portion of the show.--- Excerpt: Supernanny watchers surely will remember the father who slapped his young children (ages 2 to 9) around and called his teen stepdaughter a slut and a ho -- all on camera.
APOPKA, Fla. -- A father didn't expect his purchase of a laptop computer for his daughter to include pornography. Terry Harbor bought the computer from Value Pawn in Apopka for his 13-year-old daughter. He hoped it would provide some entertainment and assist her with homework.
Excerpt: No new information about Haleigh Cummings' whereabouts materialized on Sunday. But as the search for the missing Putnam County girl closed out its 13th day, the case took a surreal turn as her family's conflict became fodder for national television.
WEST PALM BEACH — Of mice and men, there are tales aplenty at the Palm Beach County Courthouse.
Excerpt: The Escambia County Sheriff's Office has a new story for the Dumbest Criminals file.
SATSUMA, Fla. - Putnam County Sheriff's investigators said they have receieved a tip that the 17-year-old girlfriend in the case of a missing Satsuma girl was not actually home at the time of the girl's disappearance, which is contrary to what she told detectives.
ROCKLEDGE, Fla. -- The motive behind the slaying and beheading of a heroic former police officer may have been money. The answers emerged following an autopsy that showed Paul Cadigan was shot at least six times.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- A fight between two family pit bulls resulted in both dogs being killed after they bit their owners as they tried to separate them. Bruce Evans shot the canines belonging to his wife and daughter about 10:35 a.m. Monday.
LAKELAND -- Elijah is a 2-year-old cat that can sniff out sickness. The first thing he does when he meets someone new is smell their breath. He is focused on sniffing out diabetes.
BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. -- It sounds like the script from a horror movie. A professional masseuse was arrested for murdering a client and then chopping his body into little pieces. But, she told detectives she can't remember a thing.