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Jurors in the murder trial of Dayonte Resiles appeared to be on the verge of returning guilty verdicts late Monday, but not necessarily for first-degree murder.

Students will be expected to attend school for a full day on Dec. 14 to Dec. 17 when they take final exams. In past years, students took two exams in the morning and usually left by lunchtime.

A British woman testified Monday that Ghislaine Maxwell pressured her into giving Jeffrey Epstein sexual massages when she was still a teenager, assuring her she would have “fun” with him.

A 2022 repeat is brewing among the top three finishers in the just decided, fiercely fought South Florida 20th Congressional District primary. Dale Holness, who lost the Democratic contest to Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick by five votes, is planning another candidacy. Barbara Sharief, who finished third, will “more than likely” run again.

A man lying in the parking lot of a closed Aldi was run over by a Fort Lauderdale police officer. The man was critically injured and taken the Broward Health Medical Center.

A Florida jury found that computer scientist did not owe half of 1.1 million Bitcoin to the family of David Kleiman, a former Palm Beach County sheriff’s deputy who turned into a South Florida computer expert.

After a 13-year-old girl ran away from her home in Tamarac and became a victim of sex trafficking, four people have been sentenced to prison, ranging from 10 to 16 years, prosecutors announced Monday.

A person participating in an active-shooter training exercise was burned when a discharge from a blank fired by a gun landed on the participant's leg.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up an appeal by a former Florida Atlantic University professor who contended he was fired in retaliation for blog posts questioning the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut.

Here are the updated statistics on COVID-19 in Florida including new cases, deaths, hospitalizations, testing positivity and vaccinations.

A 3-year-old Clearwater, Florida boy is recovering after accidentally shooting himself in the shoulder with a gun, police said.

A divided federal appeals court rejected Florida’s request to at least temporarily block a Biden administration rule that would require health-care workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19.

Carrie Meek became the first Black lawmaker from Florida to serve in Congress since the post-Civil War Reconstruction.

Authorities killed a Florida Institute of Technology student who lunged at a police officer with an “edged weapon” on the college campus Friday night, police said.

CNN fired anchor Chris Cuomo on Saturday less than a week after new information emerged about how he assisted his brother, former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, as the politician faced sexual harassment allegations earlier this year.

Jurors finished a second day of deliberations in the high-profile murder trial of Dayonte Resiles without reaching a verdict on Saturday evening. The jury will pick up its discussions on Sunday morning.

In a razor-thin South Florida congressional race, election officials blame the Postal Service for failing to deliver ballots on time, while the Postal Service says it’s unaware of any instances of late-arriving ballots. Left disenfranchised are the voters whose ballots could’ve potentially swayed the result, experts say.

Legal sports betting in Florida is in a holding pattern. The Seminole Tribe announced Saturday it is 'temporarily' suspending sports betting in Florida, and said it looks forward to welcoming patrons back in the future.

As a new COVID variant appears on the horizon, state laws contradict federal laws, and local officials battle the state, leaving businesses, schools and citizens to devise their own safeguard.