Florida Department

A sheriff’s office captain told deputies to form a perimeter instead of rushing into the Florida high school where 17 people were killed in a mass shooting, according to documents obtained by the Miami Herald.

A Tuesday morning hearing in the criminal case against the suspect accused in the Parkland, Florida, high school shooting has been canceled. Prosecutors are seeking to obtain hair samples, fingerprints, DNA and photographs of Nikolas Cruz, 19. The hearing was removed from the court docket and no explanation was immediately available. Cruz, who has been charged with 17 counts of...

The school resource officer accused of not entering the building of a Parkland school during a shooting that claimed 17 lives is disputing Broward Sheriff Scott Israel’s account of his actions and the sheriff’s “uncalled for attacks upon his character.”

Here’s what to know for Monday, Feb. 26.

Authorities say a missing 17-year-old Florida girl who was with a soccer coach from her school has been found safe.

A Florida teenager trying to enter Canada has been detained by U.S. border patrol agents who want to interview him in connection with the death of his grandmother.

An eleventh resident of a Hollywood nursing home that had to be evacuated after a power outage tragedy has died, the medical examiner’s office confirmed Friday.

One teen was shot by a deputy and another is in custody after they burglarized a home during Hurricane Irma Sunday morning, while looters have been spotted in Miami-Dade and Broward, authorities said.

Here’s what to know for Thursday, April 13.

A former Florida A&M University official is being charged with bribery after he allegedly asked parents to give him money to help their children get admitted to the college.

Three more cases, likely non-travel related, of Zika were announced by the state of Florida while the current zone of Wynwood has been lowered by several blocks.

The family of a Florida woman who died outside a hospital after she was forcibly removed by police has filed a federal lawsuit against those who forced her exit.

A Michigan professor who authorities say traveled to South Florida to have sex with a 14-year-old boy has pleaded guilty.

Florida has a backlog of more than 13,000 rape kits that have not been tested or submitted for processing, and managing them could cost the state tens of millions of dollars and take several years, according to a report released Monday.

A woman who collapsed after police arrested her for refusing to leave a Florida hospital when doctors discharged her died from a blood clot in her lung, officials said Wednesday.

A central Florida man convicted of stabbing to death his young daughter, his ex-wife and her mother and sister 30 years ago is scheduled to be executed months after his execution was postponed so attorneys could litigate whether a sedative used in Florida’s executions was constitutional.

A lawyer representing Corey Jones’ family says the state attorney has told them that a Palm Beach Gardens police officer fired six shots, striking Jones three times.

A Seminole County judge sentenced a man to 885 years in prison for possession of a massive amount of child pornography, Attorney General Pam Bondi’s Office of Statewide Prosecution announced Monday.