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A cleaning lady decided her services were worth a $500 holiday bonus and resorted to attacking the 83-year-old homeowner to ...

Columnist Scott Maxwell celebrates good news, the expansion of Nemours Children’s Hospital – a hospital that Orlando Health ...

Around 4:30 p.m., Karlton Odell Johnson, principal of Cypress Run Education Center in Pompano Beach, his Kia Stinger down the ...

Once again, Florida lawmakers are debating whether to replace the northern mockingbird with the Florida scrub-jay as the ...

In the wake of the Las Vegas Cybertruck explosion planned and executed by Matthew Livelsberger, a highly decorated, active ...

Jerryan will be lovingly remembered by her three children - Kim Ball (Chris) from Ponte Vedra, FL, Georgia Davis, from Melbourne, FL and Joseph McClure (Kay) from Warrenton, VA. She is pre ...

“On December 31 ... a local woman reached out through text messaging to someone she believed was a drug dealer. The woman was ...

A lawyer visiting a client in jail was arrested after deputies determined his legal documents were laced with a powerful drug ...

The deputy — perceiving he was being targeted — stopped being polite and rammed the bicyclist, sending him bouncing off the hood, sailing through hedges and crashing to the ground, a Flagler County ...

A pair of Florida -based insurance providers have teamed up to create a new "affordable" insurance program aimed at homeowners in the hurricane-prone state, but there's a catch: It is limited only to ...

A senior official says Canada is looking at putting retaliatory tariffs on American orange juice, sinks, toilets and some ...