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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.

The parents of the Michigan teen charged with killing four students at Oxford High School pleaded not guilty Saturday to involuntary manslaughter charges, hours after police said they were caught hiding in a commercial building.

Broward school officials say they've received no reports of anyone who’s been the target of identity theft as a result of a ransomware attack, but experts say they may not know yet.

“Florida is our focus.” A year after a brutal Florida election for Florida Democrats — in which the ongoing crisis in Venezuela and the concerns of Venezuelans in the U.S. were used as a political weapon — activists who supported Joe Biden are mobilizing in an attempt to avoid a repeat of 2020.

Hunters support the plan for round-the-clock alligator hunting. But alligator processors are concerned, and operators of airboard tours say it could prevent tourists from seeing their favorite reptile.

A divided appeals court rejected the Seminole Tribe’s request to put on hold a federal judge’s ruling that scrapped a deal giving the tribe control over online sports betting throughout the state.

Rock icon Tom Petty has been awarded a posthumous honorary Ph.D. from the University of Florida.