State news

A man is dead after his vehicle hit a Florida East Coast Railway train hit in Melbourne.

Monroe County Sheriff's officials say the body of 70-year-old James Gogan was found floating in the water near a boat he had been working on.

A leading Florida Democrat is calling on Gov. Rick Scott to return $110,000 in campaign contributions from an insurer.

A Central Florida woman has reunited with her son almost 36 years after giving him up for adoption.

Officials say a yellow kayak of a missing Pensacola man was found by a fisherman on Okaloosa Island.

A dozen people have been sentenced in a South Florida grow house operation that ended after the murder of a man suspected of stealing their marijuana, federal prosecutors said Thursday.

An Ohio police officer and his wife face aggravated child neglect charges after their young children were left unsupervised in a truck outside a Panama City Beach bar.

Data released Thursday by the defense from slain Florida teenager Trayvon Martin's cellphone includes texts with a friend about fighting, smoking pot and being forced to move out of his mother's house because of trouble at school, as well as ...

A Treasure Coast bio-energy producer has contacted Gov. Rick Scott, urging him to oppose the repeal of a state law requiring that most gasoline sold in the state include nearly 10 percent ethanol.

The Boy Scouts of America's National Council has voted to ease a long-standing ban and allow openly gay boys to be accepted as Scouts.

While the worst of any natural disaster clearly comes during the disaster itself, the aftermath is often equally difficult to deal with.