Florida man pays $7,600 to cover dozens of neighbors’ past-due utility bills

A Florida man who went missing with his girlfriend under suspicious circumstances last week was found dead Saturday as deputies continue searching for the woman, investigators said. Trodarius Rainey, 26, was found dead in a wooded area at Lake Jesup Park, about eight miles from where his car was found abandoned on Thursday, the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office said.

A 23-year-old Florida man is now out of isolation after being the first person in the state to test positive for a new and more contagious strain of COVID-19, health officials said Saturday.  The presence of the new strain in Martin County, on Florida's Treasure Coast, was first discovered Thursday through the CDC's random sampling of COVID-19 tests.  The CDC is now working with the Florida Department of Health to examine more cases in the area and ascertain how much the new strain has spread. 

A Florida man once arrested as a teenager for posing as a doctor was taken into custody again in Palm Beach County Thursday on charges of fraud and grand theft, according to police. Malachi Love-Robinson, 23, was arrested, accused of stealing money from customers while working as a contractor for United States of Freight in Delray Beach, WPTV, the NBC affiliated TV station in West Palm Beach, reported.

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After being laid off by Disney, a Florida man turned his hobby of making handcrafted wooden American flags into a source of income. "I had always dreamed of and wanted to make a flag for our house," Mark Newman told "Fox & Friends" Tuesday.

Nobody likes dealing with a canceled flight, but it’s probably not worth going to jail over. A traveler at a Florida airport was arrested after punching another traveler after reportedly becoming upset that his flight was canceled and then being told to quiet down by the victim.

ORLANDO, Fla. — With unexpectedly cold weather in the forecast and pandemic-related curfews in some places, Florida is about to have a Christmas unlike any other in recent memory, and it may involve falling iguanas.

A Florida man who police say kidnapped and killed his wife earlier this year, then sent strange text messages in which he pretended to be her in order to cover it up, pleaded guilty to lesser charges and disclosed the location of her body.  Jupiter police found the remains of Gretchen Anthony, 51, about three miles from her home in Abacoa, putting an end to a nearly 10-month long search that began after she disappeared in March.  "We hope that this will bring closure to family now that Gretchen

A man was killed Monday morning during an altercation outside an Orlando, Fla., Waffle House restaurant, police said.  The victim was shot in the chest and pronounced dead at a hospital, an Orlando police spokesperson told Fox News.The case is being investigated as a homicide, authorities sad.  Information on the shooter was not available. The restaurant chain's locations have been the site of several shootings recently.

Graphic bodycam video shows Florida officers shooting a man who charged at an officer with what police said was a knife. Two Daytona Beach officers shot Andrew Mansilla, 25, in the neck Thursday night, critically injuring him.

Eva Mendes spoke candidly about parenting her and Ryan Gosling’s two daughters amid the coronavirus pandemic.“My little girl wanted to cut out Maria Callas’ face from [this] record cover,” the actress, 46, captioned a black-and-white Instagram photo on Thursday, December 17, of her face peering through the hole.

A Florida man was arrested Wednesday in the 1998 kidnapping and rape of a 22-year-old woman after DNA collected from a discarded cigarette last month linked him to the case, investigators said. James Byrd, now 60, was arrested in Marion County on charges of armed kidnapping and sexual battery in the 22-year-old case, Tampa police said.

A Florida woman has been charged with storing a dead man’s body in a trash can in order to collect his Social Security benefits. Michelle Haney, 49, of Bradenton, was arrested and charged Wednesday with abuse of a dead body in connection with the death of 40-year-old Jon Christopher Leonard.

A kind-hearted Florida businessman is playing Santa for the second holiday season in a row — this year reportedly paying the overdue utilities bills for 114 families who were at risk of losing service. “This year to me probably is more meaningful than last year with the pandemic and all the people out of work having to stay home,” Michael Esmond, 74, told CNN.

 Serena Williams  and her husband  Alexis Ohanian  found a way for their daughter  Olympia Ohanian   to have her first snow day.The tennis pro posted a video Friday sledding down a mini snow hill with her family. You could tell the snow was fake by the fact that there was only one perfectly placed mountain of snow on a bed of healthy green Florida grass.

A restaurant in Florida will pay tens of thousands of dollars in back wages to its employees over alleged minimum wage and overtime violations, according to the U.S.

As OWN ramps up for the second season of the Peabody Award-winning drama David Makes Man from Oscar winner Tarell Alvin McCraney and Warner Bros. Television, 10 actors are set to appear in recurring roles.

A Florida man who allegedly shot a burglar as he apparently begged for his life is facing an attempted murder charge. Corthoris Jenkins, 28, was playing video games in his North-Miami Dade apartment Tuesday when Xavier West allegedly broke into the efficiency unit, the Miami Herald reported.

Bodycam footage shows Florida deputies pointing guns at a young man as they convince him to drop a Samurai sword. On Tuesday night, in Callaway, three members of the Bay County Sheriff's Office convinced the man to put down the sword and get on the ground before handcuffing him.