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Nearly 50 protests are planned across Florida July 17, in response to what organizers call "civil and human attacks" by the Trump administration.
The trial for the Florida State University student accused of killing two people and wounding six others in a mass shooting on campus in April is set to go to trial this November.
A joint investigation by the Miami Herald and WLRN, published on Tuesday, revealed that a Brightline passenger train has killed on average someone every 13 days of service. In addition to the deaths, there have been 99 injuries and over 100 vehicle collisions.
A system that is producing heavy rain and thunderstorms off Florida’s east coast could become a tropical depression later this week, according to the National Hurricane Center.
The National Hurricane Center said July 16 it is continuing to monitor an area of low pressure moving across Florida toward the Gulf.
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One out of every three ambassador-level nominees come from Florida, top campaign donors, Mar-a-Lago regulars and personal friends of the president.
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Elkhorn coral helps form the skeleton of a healthy reef, but more than 95% of the Elkhorn coral off Florida has been wiped out. Scientists have created the "Flonduran" crossbreed to solve the problem.
Residents in a Miami suburb used an ax, fire extinguisher and garden hose to rescue four people from a small plane that crashed into a tree in yet another mishap near a busy South Florida airport. “It was nothing short of heroic,” Angelo Castillo, the mayor of Pembroke Pines in Broward County, said Tuesday.
Three kids playing a ding-dong ditch prank in a southwest Florida neighborhood ended up getting chased down and nearly hit by one resident in a car, authorities said. The driver, identified as 51-year-old John Albanos, is charged with two counts of aggravated assault with intent to commit a felony, Collier County records show.
Backstreet Boys singer Brian Littrell joins 'America's Newsroom' alongside his attorney Peter Ticktin to discuss why he was forced to file suit as trespassers continue to encroach on his private beach.