A woman is claiming discrimination by Dunkin Donuts after she was refused drive-thru service on Christmas Day, according to law firm Morgan & Morgan.

A Sanford man potentially facing decades in prison for allegedly shooting and killing a teenage robbery suspect in 2019 is not immune from prosecution under Florida’s so-called “Stand Your Ground” self-defense law, a judge recently ruled.

Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed a death warrant for the April 8 execution of inmate Michael Tanzi, who was convicted in the 2000 murder of a woman in Monroe County, according to the Florida Supreme Court.

An Ocala man accused of being responsible for the death of a diver back in 2020 has now been found guilty, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

A 2024 Florida law aimed at keeping children off of social-media platforms came under scrutiny Friday, as lawyers for the state told a federal judge the measure is addressing a “mental-health crisis” and attorneys for industry groups argued the restrictions violate First Amendment rights.

An Orange County judge is being investigated following reports of “misconduct” while presiding over criminal cases, according to court documents filed on Friday.

A Seminole County circuit judge has refused to block the scheduled March 20 execution of convicted murderer Edward James, rejecting arguments that he should be spared, in part, because of “cognitive decline.”

The Orange County Sheriff’s Office is facing a lawsuit nearly two years after a brutal killing spree left a 9-year-old girl, an Orlando TV reporter and another woman dead.

R.J. Larizza, state attorney for the 7th Judicial District of Florida, has voluntarily disqualified himself from the investigation and prosecution of a dog attack that killed a DeLand boy.

According to the attorneys, the boy was waiting with a friend in a local gated community when the pair was approached by a couple of dogs "that did not belong."

Florida’s 2025 Legislative Session is less than two months away, but lawmakers have already been busy filing new pieces of legislation.

A judge has dismissed a lawsuit over the site of a historic school for Black students in Eatonville, but the future of the property remains uncertain.

The state commission that governs the conduct of judges is dropping charges against former circuit court judge Jeff Ashton.

The Orange County Supervisor of Elections issued a press release on Friday defending Supervisor Glen Gilzean against allegations of illegal budget withdrawals.

Saying the “Constitution does not mandate comfortable prisons,” Florida corrections officials want a federal judge to toss out a potential class-action lawsuit alleging the state has violated inmates’ rights because of hot conditions at a Miami-Dade County prison.

After weeks of debate between the Orange County Commission and the Supervisor of Elections office, the county has taken steps to ensure employees are paid during the holidays.

During the operation, police said they were able to enter these bars and nightclubs with firearms “due to inadequate or non-existent wand searches.”

The fleeing man was shocked as he climbed a fence, which caused him to fall and become paralyzed from the neck down, the release claims.

Did a relationship with an Artificial Intelligence chatbot lead 14-year old Sewell Setzer to take his own life?

After her son committed suicide earlier this year, Megan Garcia is now accusing Character.AI of sexual abuse and wrongful death.

The plaintiffs in the case allege that many of the signatures on the Amendment 4 petitions were forgeries, belonged to dead people, or contained perjury.

As a result of the injury, Jahxy was paralyzed and became unable to breathe on her own, leading to her death, the lawsuit says.

Investigators said the incident over five years ago, which is when the man strangled his stepmother at the Greenwood Cemetery in Lake County.

A political committee leading efforts to pass a ballot proposal on abortion rights filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday alleging the state violated the First Amendment by threatening television stations over an ad supporting the measure.

Following a number of shootings in the area, the city decided to impose new rules in an attempt to improve safety and draw more people to the district.

A Leon County circuit judge Monday refused to issue a temporary injunction to block the state Agency for Health Administration from disseminating information about a proposed constitutional amendment.

The Malibu Rapist — whose real name is George Girtman — got his nickname after a string of sexual batteries in the 1980s and 1990s in the Malibu Homes subdivision in Orlando.

Tuesday's incident is the latest in a series of school threats over the past week.

Residents of the Shadow Bay community in Longwood are demanding action over ongoing flooding, and they hope to see the person responsible held accountable during a Seminole County court hearing on Thursday afternoon.

Current Ninth Judicial Court State Attorney Andrew Bain firmly denies that he is part of any scheme involving Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis regarding the race he’s in with the former state attorney that he replaced, Democrat Monique Worrell.

A 2022 bill set requirements for inspections of condominium buildings that are three stories or higher. But now, some condo owners are being hit with huge assessments and fees to meet the new law's deadline early in the new year.

The 52-year-old man police said broke into an Orlando home and attacked the people inside with branch cutters, was sentenced to life in prison on Monday, according to a news release from the Ninth Circuit Court.

A traffic citation has been dismissed for a former Volusia County Beach Safety sergeant accused of running over two sunbathers on Memorial Day.

She claimed she stole the money because she’d become “addicted to stealing the payroll funds,” DOJ officials announced.

Years after the body of a 30-year-old man was dumped in Geneva, the woman behind his murder has finally received prison time, according to prosecutors.

According to court records, he took a couple out on his boat for their first dive back in 2020, though the wife was sucked under into the propeller when he put it in reverse.

During a news conference in Citrus County on Thursday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis discussed his response to a federal appeals court ruling that allowed a state ban on transgender treatments for minors to go into effect.

A federal lawsuit filed Thursday challenges a 2023 Florida law that increased scrutiny of school library books.

On Friday, former Orlando City Commissioner Regina Hill returned to the home belonging to a 96-year-old woman whom she's been accused of exploiting to collect her belongings. However, when she arrived, she found the place in disarray.

The law firm explained that the man was in the laundromat when it exploded, leaving him with serious burns and a head injury.

Disney announced it’s waiving its arbitration in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the husband of a doctor who died following a meal at an Irish restaurant at Disney Springs.

At the time, O’Steen was walking along Main Street, and the park “was packed and extremely busy,” the lawsuit reads.

A jury has reached a verdict in the manslaughter trial of a Florida woman accused of fatally shooting her neighbor.

A lawsuit filed this month shows that billions of records — including social security numbers — were stolen during a data breach of a Florida company.

A wrongful death lawsuit brings to light the fine print that people sign on a regular basis, without understanding the terms of what is being agreed upon.

The jury will determine whether Lorincz was justified when she shot through her locked front door last year and killed Owens during an ongoing dispute over neighborhood children.

Nearly a year after her death, Disney is now trying to dodge a wrongful death lawsuit by pointing to her husband's Disney+ subscription.

According to investigators, he left several letters at various locations across Orange County threatening to “explode everything here in whole America.”

The lawsuit claims that her account was disabled about an hour after she sent an invitation to her peers for a Catholic Mass session near a local abortion clinic.

Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday signed a death warrant for an inmate convicted in the 1994 murder of a Florida State University student who went to the Ocala National Forest to camp with his sister.

Over two months after Red Lobster filed for bankruptcy, the seafood restaurant chain could soon have a new owner.

As it tries to fend off a constitutional challenge to removing and restricting school library books, the Escambia County School Board on Tuesday argued that it should be able to take a deposition of a 7-year-old student who is part of the lawsuit.

After the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last month in a closely watched Second Amendment case, lawyers are tangling over how the decision should apply to federal prohibitions on medical-marijuana patients buying and possessing guns.

The lawsuit states that the woman was assaulted by another guest at SeaWorld last year while watching the park’s dolphin show.

A federal judge Wednesday blocked a new Biden administration health-care rule that would clash with Florida’s attempts to restrict treatments such as hormone therapy and puberty blockers for transgender people.

Court records show that the woman visited a Publix Supermarket along US-27 in Leesburg nearly four years ago.

A Palm Beach County circuit judge on Monday ordered the release of grand jury testimony about the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, nearly two decades after a probe into allegations the wealthy financier sexually abused young women at his Palm Beach mansion.

The new law — HB 7063 — sets age limits for those working in an “adult entertainment establishment,” such as strip clubs, adult bookstores and sex shops.

Florida lawmakers and Gov. Ron DeSantis have been busy this Legislative Session, with nearly 200 new laws taking effect on July 1.

The federal government “has a strong interest” in a lawsuit challenging a Florida law requiring teachers to use pronouns that align with their sex, according to a brief filed this week by the Biden administration.

A ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court Friday paves the way for cities and counties to ban people from sleeping and camping in public places.

Investigators claim that she diagnosed Done Members with ADHD so that she could write them Adderall prescriptions and increase subscription revenue for Done Health.

On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in an 8-1 decision to keep in place a law allowing law enforcement to take away guns from anyone subject to a domestic violence restraining order.

An appeals court Monday kept on hold a ruling that would require a revamped “financial impact statement” that will appear on the November ballot with a proposed constitutional amendment about abortion and refused to fast-track the issue to the Florida Supreme Court.

The Biden administration said Monday it is still deciding whether to appeal a U.S. district judge’s ruling that the federal government improperly shifted permitting authority to Florida for projects that affect wetlands.

Adult film actress Stormy Daniels, whose courtroom testimony about hush money payments over an alleged affair with Donald Trump led to the former president's conviction on 34 felony charges, has not yet commented on the historic verdict.

The company — "Doodie Calls" — is seeking the full unpaid balance and over $24,000 in monetary damages, the lawsuit says.

A 2023 law that lowered the number of jurors needed to recommend execution has resulted in a "quintessential game of chance" for inmates being resentenced because of changes in the state's death-penalty process and unconstitutionally “silences black voices,” groups are arguing in what could be a pivotal Florida Supreme Court case.

The complaint — written as a letter to the Florida Commission on Human Relations — discusses apparent “racial quotas” in Starbucks’ hiring practices.

Williams was arrested early last year after a retired Mount Dora couple was found stabbed to death inside their home at the Waterman Village senior living complex on New Year’s Eve in 2022.

Records show that earlier this month, a guest went tubing on the Humunga Kowabunga: a high-speed waterslide with a near-vertical, five-story drop.

Arguing that the issue is moot, voting-rights groups on Friday urged an appeals court to reject an attempt by the state House and Senate to shield lawmakers and legislative staff members from testifying in redistricting lawsuits.

Forshee said she learned that her family hadn’t actually buried all of McFadden following his murder, as his skull and spine had just been uncovered at the Medical Examiner's Office.

While fishing at the pond, Keller’s fishing line became tangled in some broken power lines, which caused him to be electrocuted and killed, the lawsuit says.

The records show that the man — Robert Buckley — had his Adderall prescriptions filled by pharmacists at these stores' pharmacies.

The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday sided with Allstate Insurance Co. in an attempt to fend off a potential class-action lawsuit about limiting payments for care after people are injured in auto accidents.

The bills cover a wide variety of issues, including human trafficking, school safety and highway racing.

In a case closely watched by business and environmental groups, a U.S. district judge Friday finalized his rejection of a 2020 move by the federal government to shift permitting authority to Florida for projects that affect wetlands.

A small congregation in Daytona Beach — led by Pastor Ben Figueroa — feels powerless after it was forced to shut down its food pantry.

The new laws cover a variety of issues, including voter registration, spaceport designations and employment regulations.

A battle about a 2021 settlement that increased base electric rates for Florida Power & Light has gone back to the state Supreme Court.

The possibility of recreational marijuana in Florida is one step closer after the state’s highest court ruled the ballot initiative valid for November’s election.

According to the lawsuit, there was no warning provided to passengers prior to the collision, and one passenger was even knocked unconscious.

A federal judge on Friday heard arguments in a court battle over a law requiring educators to use biologically correct pronouns and titles in school.

An appeals court Tuesday will take up a high-profile case about the state’s attempt to prosecute a convicted felon who was among 20 people accused of voter fraud in 2022 by Gov. Ron DeSantis and other top Florida officials.

The lawsuit says that the daughter — a 7th-grader at Edgewood High School referred to as “A.C.” — began being harassed by a particular student in October 2023.

The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a request by a Jacksonville attorney to be reinstated to practice law after a suspension related to his handling of lawsuits against the tobacco industry.

In 2023, Geriann Clem decided to ride the Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit roller coaster, which reaches a top speed of 65 mph and a height of 167 feet, the lawsuit shows.

Michael Shirley was sentenced on Tuesday to more than 7 years in federal prison.

A complaint states that on Oct. 5, 2023, the doctor, her husband and her mother-in-law all decided to eat at Raglan Road in the Disney Springs shopping center.

The lawsuit accuses the school board of playing a role in the death of Nicole Tedesco, who was killed after picking up her two daughters from Keeth Elementary School.

During the delivery, a “large dog” came out of the building and bit down on Harrison’s leg, puncturing the shin, the lawsuit shows.

A former associate of ex-Seminole County Tax Collector Joel Greenberg will learn how much time he'll spend in federal prison.

According to court documents, the man — Daniel Knight, 39 —was “overserved alcohol” by a caterer at his niece’s wedding and “became intoxicated.”

The Florida Supreme Court on Monday refused to speed up a challenge to a congressional redistricting plan that Gov. Ron DeSantis pushed through the Legislature in 2022, likely meaning the disputed map will remain in effect for this year’s elections.

The DOJ announced on Monday that the man had been involved in five separate armed robberies of 7-Eleven stores in Orange and Seminole counties.

A federal judge Thursday closed the door on allegations that key parts of a 2021 elections law were unconstitutional.

While riding the water slide, Carney hit the bottom of the pool, causing her to sustain injuries “in and about her body and extremities,” the lawsuit says.

The future of abortion rights on the November ballot is about to be in the hands of the state’s highest court.

An Ocala man filed a lawsuit on Friday, claiming a stump grinder that he rented had burned him in an explosion, according to court documents.