Aidan Bush

Florida’s new Halo Law, the controversial statute intended to protect law enforcement from harassment, went into effect at the start of this year. Now the first people arrested and prosecuted under it say they were left in the dark.

The northern mockingbird has done it again. Known for its ability to vocally mimic at least a dozen other species, the gray-and-white bird held off challenges for a fourth consecutive year in the Capitol to unseat it from its perch as Florida's state bird.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has already embraced the change. He cited the new name in an executive order earlier this week attributing inclement winter weather to a “low pressure moving across the Gulf of America.”

The State Attorney’s Office abruptly dropped a long-running criminal case Friday against a commercial truck driver it had accused of kidnapping a woman in Mississippi and sexually assaulting her during a weeklong trip across the Southeast.

The small plane that crashed near the Cross City airport last month, killing two people on board, suffered electrical failures prior to the accident, according to a new National Transportation Safety Board report.

Dozens of Marion County law enforcement made in-person checks with registered sex offenders and predators Thursday to make sure they stayed away from any Halloween celebrations.

The pilot of a small plane that crashed, killing both on board, mysteriously asked air traffic controllers to cancel his plan to land at a rural airport in north-central Florida so he could fly 200 miles further south along the Gulf coastline – then crashed trying to land at his original airport destination.

Weeks after being shot in the lower stomach while standing near a car parked a block from the University of Florida, Hannah Hanlon doesn’t blame the man who shot her.