TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Criminal charges have been dropped against a Florida man who authorities said abandoned his dog in floodwaters near a highway as residents evacuated Florida's Gulf Coast last year shortly before Hurricane Milton made landfall. The case led to legislation signed into law ...
By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A suspect in the Los Angeles area's deadly Palisades Fire earlier this year was ordered to be moved to California on Thursday from central Florida, where he was arrested last week. A hearing for Jonathan Rinderknecht that had been ...
By KATE PAYNE Associated Press/Report for America A Florida judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked the planned transfer of prime downtown Miami land for President Donald Trump's future presidential library. The move by Circuit Judge Mavel Ruiz came after a Miami activist alleged that ...
LAKE CITY, Florida (AP) — A Florida judge has granted a protective order against Republican U.S. Rep. Cory Mills at the request of a former girlfriend who claimed that he threatened to release nude images of her and physically harm her future boyfriends after she broke up with him. Under ...
By DAVID FISCHER Associated Press STARKE, Fla. (AP) — A man convicted of the 1996 killings of two women whose bodies were left in a rural pond was put to death Tuesday evening in a record 14th execution in Florida this year. Samuel Lee Smithers, 72, was pronounced dead at 6:15 p.m. ...
By KATE PAYNE Associated Press/Report for America TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Donna Adelson, the matriarch of a wealthy South Florida family who was convicted in the hired killing of her former son-in-law, was sentenced Monday to life in prison for her role in the 2014 murder-for-hire of ...
