RIVERVIEW

A 14-year-old boy shot and killed his mother in Hillsborough County on Saturday afternoon, deputies said.

A child was critically injured after being struck by lightning in Florida, fire rescue said.

Officials say a 64-year-old Florida man whose wife and stepdaughter were terminally ill fatally shot the women and then called 911 before killing himself.

A standoff between Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration and federal education officials about student mask requirements during the COVID-19 pandemic has ended after school districts nixed mask mandates.

A Florida sheriff's deputy fatally shot an 88-year-old man while doing a welfare check at his home.

An 8-year-old girl in Florida bit into her Halloween candy Friday and was cut by a blade hidden in the chocolate, authorities say.

President Joe Biden’s administration on Monday warned top Florida education officials to “reconsider your threatened actions” after the state said it would try to thwart attempts to use federal money to cover salaries of county school-board members who approved student mask requirements.

An administrative law judge will have up to two weeks to issue a decision after a hearing ended Friday in a challenge by six school boards to a state Department of Health rule designed to prevent student mask requirements.

The Florida Department of Health on Friday proposed a long-term rule to try to prevent school mask mandates and give parents more authority to decide whether children who have been exposed to COVID-19 should be able to attend school.

The Florida Board of Education sends a formal notice to the Brevard County School Board, giving the district 48 hours to comply with state student mask mandate rules.

The U.S. Department of Education announced Thursday that it has provided nearly $150,000 to the Alachua County School Board to cover a state penalty targeting board members’ salaries.

A Florida sheriff says a 30-year-old man set his Tampa area condo on fire and turned the gun on himself after admitting to a friend in a FaceTime call that he’d killed his boyfriend during a dispute.

RIVERVIEW, Fla. – Florida sheriff’s deputies fatally shot a man as they attempted to serve warrants on him Tuesday night, officials said. He was sitting in the truck with a woman when deputies spotted him, Chronister said. Some of the deputies began assisting the injured driver while others continued trying to get Scott out of the truck, according to Chronister. No deputies were injured, but the driver of the minivan was taken to a hospital after complaining of chest pains. The sheriff said the deputies wore body cameras and that the footage will be release if FDLE does not object.