Kairi Lowery

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.

New legislation proposed this year by state Rep. Johanna López, D-Orlando, and state Sen. Carlos Guillermo Smith, D-Orlando, would have made two key changes.

At every Florida execution — including Jeffrey Hutchinson’s execution set for Thursday — church-goers and members of Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty gather to seek an end to the practice.

After President Trump pledged to deport masses of undocumented immigrants, some worry that immigration-related services like intercountry adoption may get more complicated.

City leaders in Fort Myers abruptly reversed course Friday after threats from Florida's governor and attorney general and voted to allow police officers in this southwest Florida city to enforce federal immigration laws.

A Newberry woman was convicted Wednesday of second-degree murder in the sale of fentanyl-laced drugs that resulted in the overdose and death of a Newberry man in March 2023.

The search on Monday resulted in one arrest, and authorities seized 14 dogs on the site at 516 SW 1st St. The address currently serves as a warehouse and storage building, according to property records.

After cold temperatures moved President Trump’s swearing-in ceremony and inaugural address indoors to the Capitol Rotunda, attendees who had traveled hundreds of miles were left ticketless, confused and cold.

With less than 24 hours under his belt as the 47th president of the United States, Donald Trump fulfilled several of his campaign promises with a series of executive orders.