Florida

The school board in Florida's Hillsborough County voted on Aug. 18 to impose a mask mandate on school children, in defiance of a state rule put in place by the ...

PUNTA GORDA, Fla.—The Florida Board of Education met Tuesday afternoon and voted to “further investigate” two Florida school ...

Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio on Tuesday called for the banning of Chinese video sharing platform TikTok after ...

Florida's State Board of Education voted on Aug. 17 to investigate and potentially punish the two school districts ...

PUNTA GORDA, Florida—The number of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in Florida reached a pandemic record of 15,715 on ...

A school district in Florida revealed Monday that more than 5,500 students, as well as more than 300 ...

Tropical Storm Fred is expected to make landfall in eastern Florida on Monday before moving to Georgia on ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.—The National Hurricane Center said Fred regained its tropical storm status in the Gulf of Mexico ...

President Joe Biden has commended a pair of school superintendents from Florida and Arizona for enacting mask mandates in ...

TAMPA, Fla.—A former accounts manager for a nonprofit affiliated with the University of South Florida's medical school has ...

A toddler found an unsecured, loaded handgun inside an apartment and fatally shot a woman while she was ...

The Biden administration stated on Aug. 13 that it'll step in to reimburse Florida schools that are openly ...

Officials in a Florida county are asking residents to consider not calling 911, citing the number of COVID-19 ...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration said the Board of Education will tailor financial penalties to hold accountable the ...

PUNTA GORDA, Fla.—Gov. Ron DeSantis announced on Aug. 12 that he is launching a Rapid Response Team to ...

PUNTA GORDA, Fla.—Broward County School Board members on Tuesday voted to keep the county’s school mask mandate in ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed it will adjust Florida's COVID-19 case numbers after the ...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has doubled down on his campaign against school mask mandates by threatening to dock ...

MIAMI—Residents of an eight-story condo building in Miami were ordered to evacuate after the building was deemed “unsafe" ...

By Ron Hurtibise From South Florida Sun Sentinel Gov. Ron DeSantis plans to appeal a preliminary injunction allowing ...

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on Monday recommended the state's education agency punish local officials who ignore his statewide ...

A federal judge on Sunday ruled that Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings may require passengers to show proof of ...

PUNTA GORDA, Fla.—It's been said that you can’t legislate morality, but one small Southwest Florida city is trying ...

PUNTA GORDA, Fla.–The Florida Department of Education (DOE) in an emergency meeting on Friday unanimously passed two orders ...

Investigators say a rain-soaked runway and the pilots' failure to anticipate the poor conditions caused a plane chartered ...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis hit back at targeted messaging from the White House on Aug. 4, telling President ...

By Anthony Man From South Florida Sun-Sentinel FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.—U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz filed disclosures reporting she ...