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A Davie man was out for a morning walk with his dog and pet parrot when the parrot flew into a retention pond. Thinking his parrot was in distress, he waded in after it and drowned.

A Florida woman born without arms shares her challenges of daily life on social media. Simple, everyday tasks, like how she opens a can of olives, or applies false eyelashes, she shows her 140,000 combined followers on TikTok and Instagram. Unpaid for now, she hoped to turn social media into her career.

The Purple Alert Action Plan will be active July 1, sending notifications about missing adults who have mental, cognitive, intellectual or developmental disabilities. "There are times when that is the only way someone is going to be returning safely, with law enforcement activating one of these alerts," a disability advocate said.

A man from Jupiter and two others were treated at and released from a hospital after a 70-foot yacht burned and sank in New Hampshire

A conservative Washington, D.C., law firm has emerged as the courthouse defender of much of Gov. Ron DeSantis’ culture war agenda.

As tourists and new residents flock to South Florida's beaches, ocean rescue chiefs struggle to hire new lifeguards while current lifeguards work overtime to pick up the slack.

One survivor of South Florida's so-called 'Pillowcase rapist' in the 1980s hopes others come forward to tell their stories to keep the 'monster' behind bars forever. The Nancy J. Cotterman Center in Fort Lauderdale played a role when the Broward Sheriff's Office filed six arrest warrants for Robert Eugene Koehler, the suspect being held in Miami-Dade County on other rape charges.

As Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick began self-funding her successful 2021 congressional campaign, the company where she was CEO at the time started receiving a new source of income: providing COVID vaccines in underserved communities. "We risked our lives to serve the community,” Cherfilus-McCormick says. Now, those COVID-aid contracts are drawing new attention from her primary challenger's campaign.

A July 1 date looms for the effective date of a new Florida law that bans most abortions after 15 weeks gestation, severely restricting access to the procedure. Several legal actions, however, could prevent that from happening -- at least temporarily.