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A Florida man dressed as a clown got into a scuffle with police in a trespassing arrest caught on bodycam video on Wednesday. Footage shared by the Palm Bay Police Department show a man dressed in a long-sleeved shirt with red and white stripes, yellow pants and yellow vest, complete with a red clown nose at the shopping center off…

Brad Marchand is ready for his Florida debut. The Panthers said Marchand — who, because of an upper-body injury, hasn’t appeared in a game with Florida since being acquired in a trade with Boston three weeks ago — will be in the lineup Friday night when the team plays host to the Utah Hockey Club. It will be the first…

A man was arrested after allegedly engaging in repeated lewd conduct with children at the Aventura condo building where he lives, police said.

A 12-year-old student was arrested Thursday in Southwest Florida after authorities said they found a manifesto detailing his plans to bomb his school. The Lee County Sheriff’s Office said the boy’s classmates at Veterans Park Academy for the Arts saw him creating “concerning drawings,” NBC affiliate WFLA reported.  One of those drawings allegedly i...

Family members are speaking out following the tragic shooting in Pembroke Park that left a mother and her three young sons dead and a fourth child and the alleged shooter hospitalized.

The 2026 Florida governor’s race is already heating up as U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds — who is backed by President Donald Trump — opens his campaign Friday evening with a rally in his hometown of Bonita Springs in southwest Florida. Donalds’ campaign stop at Sugarshack, a live music venue and restaurant in downtown Bonita Springs, comes a month after h...

Pointing to his obesity and other medical conditions, lawyers for Florida Death Row inmate Michael Tanzi are trying to halt his scheduled April 8 execution by arguing that using the state’s lethal-injection procedure would violate the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment.

For Natasha Mathias, the fight against colon cancer is deeply personal. Her twin sister, Natalie, was just 38 years old when diagnosed with the disease. She passed away at the age of 42, and her story is not unusual.  “It’s very important for us to raise awareness because colon cancer is treatable, it’s beatable, and it’s preventable,” Mathias...

State Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis on Thursday urged homeowners to complete forms needed to receive grants through the My Safe Florida Home hardening program, as more than $100 million remains on the table. A news release from Patronis’ office said people have completed home inspections but have not submitted required information about th...

Democrats, with few electoral outlets for their outrage at President Donald Trump’s dramatic restructuring of the federal government, are pouring millions of dollars into two special elections in Florida. That’s where Democratic candidates are trying to accomplish the improbable by flipping a pair of Trump-friendly congressional seats and carving i...

Authorities are investigating after a pedestrian was struck and killed on southbound Interstate 95 in Fort Lauderdale early Friday.

Novak Djokovic is finding a higher gear in South Florida after a sluggish start to 2025. Djokovic, gunning for his seventh Miami Open title, dispatched American Sebastian Korda 6-3, 7-6 (7-4) Thursday in one hour, 24 minutes in a quarterfinal match that was postponed from Wednesday night because the women’s quarterfinal between Jessica Pegula and E...

A Miami-Dade firefighter is behind bars after he pushed a man to the ground during a disagreement in a southwest Miami-Dade neighborhood.

Lawmakers in the state are proposing a series of bans and restrictions, including whether local governments, schools, and state universities can even fly the Pride flag.