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Beach erosion and dangerous boating is expected

Body camera video from last year appears to show a former Wildwood Police detective point a gun at a suspect's head during an arrest.

The tragedy at the crosswalk, days before Christmas, is now being discussed in the Florida Legislature. Flashing yellow crosswalk lights would have to be converted to red or be removed, under a bill ready to go to the full House.

Two people are safe after a small plane had to make a hard landing at an airport in Daytona Beach.

Troopers say four members of a family visiting Central Florida from Massachusetts died from the multi-vehicle wreck along State Road 429 in the Four Corners area. 

"And now you can see why I've been so spooked paddling out alone!" Jeremy Johnston said.

Following the death of their daughter the Nelsons are testifying in support of a bill that would change crosswalk lights from yellow to red.

Coltin Plummer is charged with distribution of child pornography and could face more charges if more victims come forward.

Contigo has reissued its recall of 5.7 million children’s water bottles due to the replacement lid provided in the first recall presenting a choking hazard, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said.

“Fortunately, we were able to reunite the child with his mother, thanks in part to 'man's best friend' and an alert neighbor,” Suwannee County Sheriff's Office said in its Facebook post.

Residents are on alert after an Eastern diamondback rattlesnake was spotted slithering through a Deltona neighborhood. 

The family of eight were from Massachusetts.

FWC says that Rainbow snakes are non-venomous and can grow between 40 to 54 inches long.

The Groveland Four, Charles Greenlee, Walter Irvin, Samuel Shepherd, and Ernest Thomas, were four African-American men from Lake County who were wrongly accused of raping a woman in 1949. One of them was killed shortly after the arrests. The others were convicted, two of them sentenced to death.

A caretaker is accused of spraying a disabled woman with a perfume that triggered an allergic reaction.

The Florida Senate is continuing to move a high-priority bill for House Speaker-designate Chris Sprowls that would ban life- and long-term care insurance companies from using genetic information to set policy rates.

A Florida House proposal seeking to abolish the independent status of two Florida universities is spurring a fierce fight, as a bipartisan group of legislators on Wednesday decried the plan.

Roush Fenway Racing released two pictures of Ryan Newman on Wednesday.