The Latest Breaking News from Fla

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The Rays are still waiting to get back a few more big pieces from the injured list, such as shortstop Wander Franco, high-leverage reliever JP Feyereisen and, maybe, star pitcher Tyler Glasnow.

TAMPA, Fla. — Millions of Democrats in Florida gave U.S. Rep. Val Demings an early vote of confidence Tuesday as the party’s national leaders push for her to unseat Republican U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio this fall.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Charlie Crist soundly defeated Nikki Fried in the Democratic primary for Florida governor on Tuesday, prevailing in what became a bitter campaign to take on Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis in November.

TAMPA, Fla. — Bucs safety Logan Ryan had a special guest with him for Tuesday’s news conference at AdventHealth Training Center: Cora, an adoptable dog from the Humane Society of Tampa Bay. The two had met just 30 minutes earlier, and already the 5-year-old terrier mix was sitting on Ryan’s…

ORLANDO, Fla. — UCF special teams coordinator Brian Blackmon is one of three former or current Troy University coaches listed as a defendant in a federal lawsuit stemming from allegations that former Troy punter Jack Dawson verbally harassed and physically abused former Troy long snapper John Haynes at Troy in…

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The Parkland school shooter was a child once, a baby-faced kid who posed for pictures with his family and smiled dutifully, a little boy enrolled in day care like so many other children his age.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis has talked about busing undocumented immigrants out of the state for the better part of the year, and his administration has $12 million to roll out a program that could do just that.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Former Seminole County tax collector Joel Greenberg has been named as a witness in the state’s case against an independent “ghost” candidate who ran for a competitive state Senate seat in 2020 and the Seminole County GOP chairman who aided her candidacy.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The hallmark of the 2022 hurricane season — so far — has been uncharacteristic calmness, and the benign conditions might not change for the remainder of August, forecasters say.

CORAL GABLES, Fla. —Tyler Van Dyke was a bright spot for the Hurricanes in an otherwise tumultuous 2021 season.

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Twelve people, nearly half of them women, graduated Friday to become Orange County’s first certified “credible messengers,” the latest development in the county’s collaboration with community leaders to address youth violence.