Kairi Lowery

Some of Florida Lottery’s biggest scratch-off winners have family connections to the stores where they’ve won. Are they tricking the system?

The odds of winning a big prize are low. But some players have won so big, so often that their luck defies reason, according to a Fresh Take Florida investigation.

Store owners and clerks, the gatekeepers to potential fortunes, are among the state’s biggest lottery winners.

Parkinson’s disease has now surpassed Alzheimer’s as the fastest-growing neurological disorder in the world. Are chemical exposures to blame?

Rachel Carson brought awareness to the harmful effects of pesticides including DDT when she published her book “Silent Spring” in 1962. It took the United States another decade to ban the pesticide.

In the past five months, a virtually empty lot in The Everglades transformed into the heart of Florida’s deportation efforts, now commonly known as “Alligator Alcatraz.” State officials ramped up construction at an unprecedented speed, and new satellite images evaluated by Fresh Take Florida, show just how quickly the site was built.

The Florida prosecutor’s office in Tampa is defending its controversial and unexpected decision to drop a felony criminal case against the man accused of tying his bull terrier dog to a fence in rising waters and abandoning it along Interstate 75 amid an evacuation ahead of a major hurricane.

A Florida prosecutor has dropped the felony criminal case against the man who drew national attention after being accused of tying his bull terrier dog to a fence along Interstate 75 and abandoning it in the face of an approaching major hurricane.

When the white smoke poured out of St. Peter’s Basilica last week, 73-year-old Port Charlotte resident Louis Prevost learned that his brother — Cardinal Robert Prevost — had been elected pope.

Coming soon to a parrothead's bumper near you: Florida is close to offering a Margaritaville license plate to pay homage to Key West’s favorite son, Jimmy Buffett.