Florida

In picking Rep. Matt Gaetz as his nominee for attorney general, President-elect Donald Trump is looking to install a fierce loyalist who has been seen as divisive even within his own party.

Matt Gaetz worked at a private law practice before running for public office.

Police are investigating after a human head washed ashore on Key Biscayne on Tuesday morning.

Heightened security measures remain in place around president-elect Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida following his election win.

While a majority of voters supported the ballot measure, the yes votes fell just short of the 60% needed to pass.

The former Trump lawyer was photographed in the convertible 1980 Mercedes-Benz SL500 outside the polling place where former President Donald Trump voted.

A 17-year-old suspect in a shooting that killed two people and wounded seven others during a Halloween celebration which drew 75,000 revelers to the streets of downtown Orlando, Florida last week has been charged as an adult.

YNW Melly is seeking immediate release from prison in a new lawsuit, in which he accuses the Broward Sheriff’s Office of cruel treatment and violating his constitutional rights.

A Florida surfer says he’s thankful to be alive after being attacked by a shark not once, but twice now in his lifetime.

Caleb James Williams was arrested after allegedly brandishing his weapon at two women, ages 71 and 54, police said.

An Orlando-area bail bondsman was arrested and accused of making women have sex with him in exchange for bonding them out of jail after a years-long investigation, according to the Metropolitan Bureau of Investigation (MBI).

A Miami-Dade Supervisor of Elections employee has been fired after a ballot bin and bag fell off the worker’s truck and was found by a passerby.

A Miami-Dade Supervisor of Elections employee has been fired after a ballot bin and bag fell off the worker’s truck and was found by a passerby in an incident that was caught on camera.

A Florida woman accused of zipping her boyfriend in a suitcase and leaving him in there to suffocate was found guilty of murder on Friday, four years after what she had initially described to authorities as a case of drunken hide-and-seek gone wrong.

A new study shows a Burmese python’s maximal gape is 10.2 inches. The measurements equate to a circumference of 32 inches.

Hurricanes Helene and Milton are drawing attention to the environmental records of Republican Sen. Rick Scott and his Democratic challenger, former Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell.

The Burmese pythons have such large gapes because their lower jawbones are not fused at the front, and their skin is especially elastic.

Megan Garcia says the company’s chatbots encouraged her 14-year-old son, Sewell Setzer, to take his own life, according to the lawsuit.

Tara Alexis Sykes was taken into custody on Friday and charged with attempted murder while engaged in aggravated child abuse.

The ad encourages people to vote “yes” on a ballot initiative that would override the state’s abortion ban.