Florida man accused of killing girlfriend, wounding housemate who tried to shield her

A 62-year-old man was discovered desperately clinging to the hull of his capsized boat in the waters off the Florida coast on Sunday — about 24 hours after he was reported lost at sea, officials said. The crew onboard the container ship Angeles spotted Stuart Bee at around 11 a.m., some 86 miles off of Cape Canaveral, holding onto his 32-foot vessel, the U.S.

Florida deputies have accused a homeless man of sexual assaulting a woman who let him stay in her home for the night. Pinellas County deputies said Clark Caplan, 44, was looking for a place to spend the night around midnight on Thanksgiving when he knocked on the woman’s door in St.

A Florida man who was trying to give away a car that belonged to his late grandmother ended up coming to another man's rescue, according to a report. “1997 Ford Crown Victoria - white - around 100k miles, almost all driven by grandma,” Cory Schneider posted on Reddit last week.

A young Florida woman is accused of making her son smoke a marijuana vape pen allegedly to help him sleep and improve his appetite, according to a recent report. Kiarra Clarisse, a 22-year-old woman from Merritt Island, was arrested on the morning of Nov.

This fight was anything but briefs. A droopy-drawered pugilist didn’t let losing his pants stop him from wrestling his adversary in a minutes-long caught-on-camera gas-station brawl.

Talk about snatching victory from the jaws of defeat -- or a puppy from the jaws of an alligator. Here’s Richard Wilbanks in his backyard, caught on camera by the Florida Wildlife Federation, plunging into a pond to rescue his puppy from said alligator.

A Florida man saved his dog in style, snatching it from the jaws of an alligator without dropping his cigar. The video of Richard Wilbanks, 74, went viral, showing him jump into a pond to pull his 3-month-old puppy, Gunner, away from the alligator.

Florida sheriff’s deputies released body-camera footage of a deadly shooting in which a police officer was injured and a suspect killed during a chase over the weekend. The chase began around 4 p.m.

A Florida woman is accused of abandoning a sick 3-month-old on a stranger’s doorstep in a dirty diaper in an exchange caught on the homeowner’s doorbell camera. Melissa Kelley, 33, allegedly brought the child to a home, placed it on the ground and told a woman there its father would come pick the baby up, Fox 35 reported.

A 65-year-old Florida man found dead in Jackson County this week had been mauled by a pack of stray dogs, according to local police.  Donald Ray Allen's body was found on the side of a road in the Bascom area near the Alabama state line. Allen was reportedly out for a walk when he was attacked, according to the Tallahassee Democrat.

Tyler Hubbard says his brief social media divorce from Florida George Line partner Brian Kelley was political.

Two teens in Florida were charged in connection to the killing of a young man they plotted to kill for "street cred," according to reports. Deputies arrested 18-year-old Angel Lobato and his brother, 19-year-old Jo “JoJo” Lobato, for the suspicious disappearance of 21-year-old Danne Frazier.

A Florida man who strapped a light pole to the roof of his car on a highway has been arrested on charges of grand theft, authorities said. Douglas Allen Hatley, 71, was pulled over on a Tampa roadway on Monday after another driver reported that a maroon Toyota Camry was hauling a metal pole – nearly double the length of the car – on its roof, the Florida Highway Patrol said.

A Florida man has been accused of contributing to the delinquency of his 8-year-old son after deputies say he had the kid tag along with him during a recent series of crimes. When Ernest McKnight III, 36, was asked by a detective why he had the child with him he replied,  “I was trying to toughen him up.

A surveillance video from a Florida restaurant shows a drunken man beating up two women. Hollywood police responded to a call at the Capone’s Flicker Lite Bar & Pizza Restaurant after a man entered the establishment, clearly inebriated, and became violent after staff refused him service.