Parents seek $15M after daughter was โdisfigured and scarredโ by hot Chicken McNugget in Florida
Opening statements began in a second trial to determine the damages that will be awarded to the family suing McDonaldโs and its franchisee after a 4-year-old was severely burned by a chicken nugget.
Florida sees fewer manatee starvation deaths as feeding ends
The effort to feed thousands of pounds of lettuce to starving manatees in Florida manatees has officially ended for the winter season, as deaths of the marine mammals appear to be slowing despite the long-term threat of pollution to their main food source, seagrass.
UF claims no standing to review facultyโs critique of Ladapoโs โcherry pickingโ vaccine guidance
A group of University of Florida medical-school faculty members challenged controversial guidance by state Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo on COVID-19 vaccinations, but a university official said Wednesday the guidance is outside the scope of Ladapoโs work with the school.
โWhat were you thinking?โ Parkland families react to juryโs life in prison recommendation
Some families of the 17 people killed in the Parkland school shooting expressed their anger, sadness and shock by the juryโs recommendation Thursday that confessed shooter Nikolas Cruz be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole instead of death, according to News 6 partner WPLG-TV.
DeSantis suspends 4 Broward school board members named in grand jury report
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has suspended four Broward school board members after a grand jury report accused them of โdeceit, malfeasance, misfeasance, neglect of duty and incompetenceโ and recommended their removal from office, according to News 6 partner WPLG-TV.
As first responder suicides rise, Florida task force calls for changes in training, help availability
The number of first responders committing suicide continues to rise, according to leaders of the first comprehensive statewide task force representing firefighters, EMS, law enforcement, corrections, training and behavioral health services across Florida.
Florida massacre families to get $127.5 million for FBIโs inaction
Federal officials have confirmed that the U.S. Department of Justice has reached a multimillion-dollar settlement with the families of most of those killed and wounded in a 2018 Florida high school massacre over the FBIโs failure to stop the gunman even though it had received information he intended to attack.