Florida carried out its second execution on Tuesday at 6:15 p.m. A group of 50 people held a vigil outside the Florida State Prison, where Melvin Trotter, 65, was put to death by lethal injection.

The $4.6 million public investment in a new fire station is Ocala’s proactive approach to support its community, city officials said, while extending the reach that the Ocala Fire Rescue team can serve.

Speed ticketing cameras are coming to some school zones across Gainesville within the next few weeks, the first moves in a broader project intended to discourage drivers from racing past students during school hours.

The Gainesville Police Department honored its crossing guards earlier this month during Florida School Crossing Guard Appreciation Day.

ICE arrests of people involved in family court proceedings present challenges to the legal process, and are becoming more commonplace.

Florida executed the condemned killer, Ronald Heath, on Tuesday after he spent nearly four decades on Death Row. He was twice convicted of separate murders 12 years apart, and identified as the suspect in a third murder case that never went to trial.

Interstate 75 in Alachua County was closed in both directions between Gainesville and Micanopy on Tuesday as the Florida Highway Patrol and the Alachua County Sherrif's Office responded to a subject barricaded in their vehicle.

The bill moved unanimously through a Florida House committee on Tuesday.

Marion County firefighters fought throughout the day Sunday to extinguish a blaze of thousands of wooden railroad ties left by the side of the tracks near Dunnellon.

The Union County Courthouse in Lake Butler has received a $1.2 million grant to make needed renovations to enhance security.