Aidan Bush

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.

Despite evacuation orders in 16 Florida counties, some residents say they are riding out the storm, either out of convenience or because they're convinced Helene will swerve.

Florida braced for damaging winds, a storm surge that could reach 18 feet in places along the Gulf Coast and flooding rains as Helene officially became a hurricane on Wednesday headed toward the Sunshine State.