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Rio Giardinieri, 52, who is vice-president of a company that manufactures cooking equipment at high-end restaurants in LA and around the world, thinks he contracted COVID-19 at a conference in New York. He had a fever for five days, horrendous back pain, headache, cough, and tiredness. He was sleeping about 15 hours a day when he’s used to getting five hours a night.

As of Wednesday morning, the petition had over 227,000 signatures and it continues to grow.

The cub is now about 6-weeks-old and is healthy and feeding well.

A 2-year-old girl and a baby boy tested positive for COVID-19 in Broward County, reports the Miami Herald.

Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, R-Fla., on Wednesday became the first member of Congress to announce that he has tested positive for coronavirus.

Rarely, Walt Disney World will close, but the major theme park's hand was forced as government and health officials advised against large mass gatherings. The decision to shut down the park -- beginning on Sunday, March 15 -- is an effort to slow down the spread of the coronavirus.

“Just treat people like humans because I saw some really negative comments about one of the interviews that I did, and we're still people. And we don't want to get people sick," the Pasco County man said. "I don't want to be sick and I don't want to get anyone sick."

David Riley was known as a respected major at MacDill Air Force base but now he may be known for alleged deviant behavior involving child pornography.

After 35 years of incarceration, 29 of which were spent on death row, Pau Hildwin was released from the Hernando County Detention Center in Brooksville, Florida, on March 9.

North Port police are investigating the death of a five-month-old infant.

Two friends have tested positive for the COVID-19 coronavirus in Hillsborough County. Now, in her first public comments, one of them insists she tried to warn authorities that she was sick as they flew back to the United States from Italy.

A juvenile brown pelican is recovering down in the Florida Keys after using its beak to steal a cell phone from a woman’s hand and swallowing it. Wildlife officials said it probably thought it was food, which demonstrates the dangers of feeding wild animals.

A Pensacola woman was arrested after leaving a child by himself for nine days with no running water or electricity, authorities said.

A Florida man convicted of taping a dog's mouth shut and leaving the animal dehydrated and malnourished was sentenced to five years of probation on Monday.

NOAA and agency partners increase will reward more than $50,000 for any information leading to the deaths of two dolphins.

"Someone had cut the ears off and sewed them together with fishing line. He also had scars on his neck from where a collar was starting embed."

The photo of a young Bunnell boy grieving as his dog gets put down is tugging at heartstrings around the world.

A hospital employee in Lee County, Florida was arrested for allegedly sucking on a patient's toes.

Deputies said they were contacted by Animal Control after the boy's mother told them he had tied up the dog, named Tiny, and beat it with a pipe.