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Officials have identified the person who died after a boat explosion Monday in Fort Lauderdale that also injured seriously several people. NBC6’s Kim Wynne reports

Officials have identified the person who died after a boat explosion Monday in Fort Lauderdale that also injured seriously several people.

A Florida state representative is proposing two statewide water safety bills in 2025 to try to save lives. 

A Florida state representative is proposing two statewide water safety bills in 2025 to try to save lives. 

A woman says she and others tried to rescue victims of the boat explosion while the fire spread to their own vessel. NBC6’s Kim Wynne reports.

The 7-year-old required heart surgery after the drone, apparently involved in a midair collision, struck his chest, mother Adriana Edgerton told NBC affiliate WESH of Orlando.

For centuries, the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida has called the Everglades home. But decades of engineering projects have devastated their ancestral lands and an ecosystem that’s sustained them

Saying the “Constitution does not mandate comfortable prisons,” Florida corrections officials want a federal judge to toss out a potential class-action lawsuit alleging the state has violated inmates’ rights because of hot conditions at a Miami-Dade County prison.

The announcement comes weeks after Trump announced that she was stepping down as co-chair of the Republican National Committee.

Growing faster than almost any other state, Florida’s estimated population topped 23.3 million people this year, according to data released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau.

A TikTok trend is showing user wrapping their cars in Christmas lights and hitting roads. But is actually legal in Florida? NBC6’s Lena Salzbank reports

Police in Florida are warning residents to stay away from monkeys spotted roaming a residential community this week.

Pornhub, the video-sharing pornographic website, says it will block Floridians from accessing the site beginning Jan. 1, in response to an age verification law set to go into effect that very day.

The video-sharing pornographic website said it will block Floridians from their website starting Jan. 1.

State leaders say the federal government has “stonewalled” their attempts to investigate the September assassination attempt. Ryan Routh already faces federal charges.

Florida’s Attorney General announced new charges against Ryan Routh, the man accused in an attempted assassination of President-elect Donald Trump. NBC6’s Steve Litz reports.

For the second straight year, lawmakers in Tallahassee are talking about taking away the right of so-called Dreamers to pay the in-state tuition rate at state universities.

For the second straight year, lawmakers in Tallahassee are talking about taking away the right of so-called Dreamers to pay the in-state tuition rate at state universities.

Senate President Ben Albritton on Monday suggested phasing out a decade-old law that allows some undocumented immigrant students, known as “dreamers,” to receive in-state tuition rates at Florida universities and colleges.

A former prison guard trainee has been sentenced to death for the 2019 execution-style killings of five women inside a Florida bank. Zephen Xaver appeared to gulp, but otherwise showed no emotion as Judge Angela Cowden pronounced the sentence Monday. The 27-year-old had pleaded guilty last year to the murders, but his attorneys had asked for a life sentence rather...