6-month-old baby at center of Amber Alert found dead in cemetery

"This infant was confirmed by the Mecklenburg County Medical Examiners Office to be the missing infant, Chi-Liam Cody Brown-Erickson," police said in a news release.

Broadband projects could be linked to Florida toll roads

The bill, sponsored by Rep. Ben Albritton, R-Wauchula, also would require the Department of Transportation, starting in the 2022-2023 fiscal year, to fund projects that assist in the development of broadband infrastructure within or adjacent to three proposed toll-road corridors.

Governor Ron DeSantis asks for hold on Amendment 4 ruling

A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday upheld U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle’s October ruling that the state cannot deny the right to vote to felons who are “genuinely unable to pay” court-ordered financial obligations, such as fees, fines and restitution.

Missing and endangered Palm Bay man located

They say the man was last seen at the Walmart at 845 Palm Bay Road on Friday around 11:30 a.m. 

Thousands of Florida voters have already cast mail-in ballots in presidential primaries

More than 500,000 Floridians, or about a quarter of the 2.07 million who have requested mail-in ballots, have already cast votes in the March 17 presidential primary elections.

Florida lawmakers back increased school bus safety

A proposal in the Florida Legislature would increase from $100 to $200 the minimum fine for failing to stop for school buses. The minimum fine would increase from $200 to $400 for motorists who pass buses on the side where children get on and off the buses.

Labradoodle breeder rebuilding her life after deadly fire

After losing 19 beloved Labradoodles in an early morning fire, an Orlando dog breeder is rebuilding her life and her business.

Sophia's Law honors victim in cross-walk crash; clears first legislative hurdle

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.

Body cam shows officer pointing a gun at a suspect's head

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.

Groveland Four memorial unveiled on Friday

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.

Rescued loggerhead sea turtle released into Gulf of Mexico after 8 months of rehabilitation

After eight months of medication, fluids, antibiotics, as well as a diet of jumbo shrimp and restaurant-quality fish, a 128-pound loggerhead sea turtle was healthy enough to return to the wild.