The Latest Breaking News from Fla

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — After a nearly three-month trial, a prosecutor on Tuesday made the case for executing Nikolas Cruz, the gunman who murdered 14 students and three staff members in Florida’s deadliest school shooting.

ORLANDO, Fla. — A disturbance in the Gulf of Mexico has higher odds Tuesday morning of becoming the next tropical depression of the year, according to the National Hurricane Center.

ORLANDO, Fla. — The Food and Drug Administration on Monday responded to the results of Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo’s analysis of COVID-19 data that he says point to a risk for some men who get the shot.

TAMPA, Fla. — There is flag football and then there are the penalty flags that some believe are turning the NFL into that softer version of the game.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — About 200 student protesters crowded into the University of Florida’s Emerson Alumni Hall on Monday and refused to leave in protest of U.S. Sen. Ben Sasse, the lone finalist to be the school’s next president.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A nonprofit government watchdog group has filed a lawsuit alleging Gov. Ron DeSantis and his staff violated the state public records law for failing to produce documents and other material it requested related to two flights relocating migrants from Texas to Massachusetts.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and Democratic challenger Charlie Crist will have their one and only gubernatorial debate on Oct. 24 — 12 days later than originally planned.

TAMPA, Fla. — Advocates and community leaders have been fundraising to help Puerto Rico and local families after Hurricane Fiona recently pummeled the island.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Another possible disturbance emerged Monday morning on the National Hurricane Center’s radar, leaving meteorologists to turn their attention toward the southwestern Caribbean Sea.