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It's been one year since a 14-year-old boy visiting Central Florida on spring break fell to his death after slipping from his seat on the Orlando FreeFall attraction.

The bill was passed last week by the House, meaning it is now ready to go to Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is expected to sign it.

Florida Education Commissioner Manny Diaz Jr. offers new details.

Aiden Fucci, who pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and admitted to stabbing his schoolmate more than 100 times in the early morning hours of Mother’s Day in 2021, is facing a judge during a sentencing hearing this week before learning his fate on Friday.

A Florida House panel on Wednesday approved a sweeping measure that would prohibit doctors from providing gender-affirming care to transgender minors, including children already receiving treatment such as puberty blockers or hormone therapy.

A 44-year-old man was arrested early Sunday in Tampa after attempting to barge into a strip club with a flashlight, a loaded Glock and spare magazines, records show.

China’s scandal-plagued football association has been rocked by new corruption probes into its chiefs of discipline and competition.

House Republicans are pressing forward with a vote on a midterm campaign promise.

Following a shooting rampage that left three people dead in Pine Hills in February, Gov. Ron DeSantis, Orange County Sheriff John Mina and Osceola County Sheriff Marcos Lopez have spoken out against Worrell.

Activist groups say U.S. airstrikes targeting Iranian-backed fighters in Syria have killed at least four people.

Scandal-embattled Japanese electronics and technology manufacturer Toshiba has accepted a $15 billion tender offer from a buyout fund made up of the nation’s major banks and companies.

South Carolina's Republican-controlled Senate is moving to bar citizens of a “foreign adversary” from buying property in the state in an anti-espionage measure that critics fear will chill overseas investments over outsize concerns.

Twenty students total were treated for heat exhaustion after being evacuated outside Colonial High School following a “situation” Thursday, according to Orange County Fire Rescue.

The bill was passed last week by the House, meaning it is now ready to go to Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is expected to sign it.

The Biden administration and groups representing the forest products industry have reached a deal to promote logging practices intended to protect imperiled species on private lands.

The lawyer for a one-time Trump supporter caught up in a Jan. 6 conspiracy theory is demanding that Fox News and Tucker Carlson apologize for the many “falsehoods” he says they have spread about his client.

An event Friday morning will be held to remember Tyre Sampson, the teenager who died last year when he fell off an attraction at Orlando’s ICON Park.

Unions for service workers at Walt Disney World have reached a tentative deal with the company that would raise the starting minimum wage from $15 to $18.

Central Florida is a lightning hot spot. Finland-based Vaisala recently named Four Corners the lightning capital of the United States.

Fasting across religions is practiced for a wide range of reasons that include spiritual purification and self-discipline.

An asteroid big enough to wipe out a city will zip harmlessly between Earth and the moon's orbit this weekend.

As revelations that a defense witness was also an FBI informant roil the already contentious Capitol riot trial of members of the far-right Proud Boys group, prosecutors say the informant was never told to gather information about the defendants or their lawyers.

Scientists for the federal government say documents that Georgia state regulators relied upon to conclude a proposed mine won't harm the nearby Okefenokee Swamp and its vast wildlife refuge are riddled with technical errors.

Hip-hop became a cultural phenomenon against the backdrop of American history, and now Public Enemy’s Chuck D has committed himself to explore its origins.