Florida

A Florida mom grabbed a pistol and got into a shootout with armed home invasion suspects in order to defend her husband and 7-year-old son.

A Volusia County student is suing his school after he says he was punished for a display showing support for President Donald Trump.

The White House says the president will vote in West Palm Beach, a short drive from his Mar-a-Lago private club.

Tallahassee police say the woman admitted to repeatedly beating the 3-year-old boy with a tire iron before his death because she was angry about him standing on the sink to brush his teeth.

An Inverness father is behind bars after the Medical Examiner's Office found injuries to the 3-month-old boy in various healing stages and determined that recent, multiple blunt force injuries caused his death.

The Coast Guard offloaded 3,250 pounds of cocaine, 440 pounds of liquid cocaine, and 7,700 pounds of marijuana -- all with an estimated street value of $85.9 million.

She spotted the witch on the way to work Tuesday morning.

A uniformed police officer in Miami is under investigation after he was photographed wearing a pro-Trump mask at an early voting site.

The teen who shot and killed a Jacksonville K-9 faces up to 35 years in prison, but is asking the judge for leniency.

A South Florida mail carrier accused of stealing a mail-in ballot and other pieces of mail admitted to stealing mail sporadically for nearly two years, a federal complaint says.

A group of flying squirrel smugglers has been grounded after a 19-month-long investigation that stretched across the country and as far as Asia, Florida wildlife officials say.

A group of first responders in Florida went above the call of duty after responding to a home to help an elderly Army veteran suffering from heat exhaustion. 

A guest at Walt Disney World brought an AR-15 rifle and a Sig Sauer 9 mm handgun on his vacation to the "Most Magical Place on Earth," telling deputies with the Orange County Sheriff's Office that he was concerned for his family's safety due to riots and civil unrest.

Two hunters have broken a state record by removing the largest Burmese python to date from the Florida Everglades.

Python hunters in South Florida made a record-breaking catch.

When investigators responded to a report of a fire, deputies found the room covered in feces and urine. That's when they learned the child had set the mattress on fire in order to escape. According to the sheriff's office, one of the other children in the home slid a pack of matches under the door to the victim.

The veteran explained that after about twenty minutes, a manager came up to them and told them that they had to leave.

A Florida woman has been charged with child neglect after she was accused of leaving her seven children home alone for months.

Things just fell into place for the Polk County Sheriff’s Office after a young guy who was riding his bike along Coleman Road in Winter Haven found a wallet with $500 in it.