First responders rushed to reports of a boat on fire in the waters off Broward County on Monday evening.

More world leaders are confirming they have been invited to President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration.

A military veteran who choked an agitated New York subway rider and was acquitted of homicide this week has been invited by Vice President-elect JD Vance to join Donald Trump’s suite at the Army-Navy football game on Saturday.

A Florida prosecutor says he will seek to vacate as many as 2,600 convictions of people who bought crack cocaine manufactured by the Broward County Sheriff’s Office between 1988 and 1990.

Donald Trump dined on Wednesday with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the president-elect’s Mar-a-Lago club in Florida.

Gerardo “Tata” Martino, who guided Inter Miami to the best regular season record in Major League Soccer history this season, is resigning as coach of the club.

Do you want to get away from the U.S. for a few years? If so, then there’s good news.

Lionel Messi’s first MLS Cup playoff match with Inter Miami will be on Oct. 25.

The puck went into the corner, to the left of Florida goalie Sergei Bobrovsky, with 14 seconds left in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final.

Lionel Messi will not play Saturday when Inter Miami visits Chicago, meaning he will have at least two more weeks to continue recovering from an ankle injury.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will hold a news conference in Fort Lauderdale.

The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to take up a challenge to an agreement that gave the Seminole Tribe exclusive rights to handle online sports betting in Florida, dealing a blow to the deal’s opponents.

Although more rain could trigger additional isolated Florida flooding on Friday, forecasters say the strong, persistent storms that dumped up to 20 inches (50 centimeters) in southern parts of the state appear to have passed.

Passengers headed to Florida were told to prepare for a possible water landing after the aircraft was turned around due to an apparent mechanical problem.

Federal job safety officials are beginning their investigation into the collapse of a crane that killed a worker.

Officials say one person was killed and two others were hospitalized when a section of crane fell from a building.

U.S. Sen. Rick Scott is spending millions of campaign dollars on ads focused on Florida’s Hispanic voters.

The youngest children of an octogenarian couple who were killed inside their Florida home say they are mystified as to why anyone would harm their parents.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis held a news conference Thursday morning at a wine shop in Fort Lauderdale, where he signed a bill allowing the sale of larger wine bottles than previously legal.

Guiherme Ceretta was removed as center referee of the Inter Miami-Orlando City match Saturday after photos of Ceretta on social media created a possible conflict.

The collapse of a sand hole that killed a 7-year-old Indiana girl on a Florida beach is an underrecognized danger that kills and injures several children a year around the country.

The victims of a crash while Shana Soto was driving drunk were in the courtroom when she was sentenced to four years in prison and 10 years of probation in Broward County.

There were reports of a tornado in South Florida on Saturday in South Florida.

A Florida official was dead or dying in a hallway in the governor’s office complex for 24 minutes before anyone noticed he had collapsed after leaving a meeting last year.

Seventeen Florida sheriff’s deputies have appeared in court on charges that they stole about half a million dollars in pandemic relief funds.

Seven passengers and a crew member were injured when a JetBlue flight from Ecuador to Fort Lauderdale hit extreme turbulence while landing in Florida.

Lionel Messi scored in his third straight game and had his second consecutive multi-goal performance for Inter Miami in a 3-1 victory over Orlando City.

Orlando City’s path in the Leagues Cup will have to go through Lionel Messi and Inter Miami in a midweek matchup at DRV PNK Stadium in Ft. Lauderdale.

A Broward jury has awarded $800,000 in damages in a lawsuit that alleged hot chicken McNuggets from a local McDonald’s franchise left a young girl severely burned.

Opening statements began in a second trial to determine the damages that will be awarded to the family suing McDonald’s and its franchisee after a 4-year-old was severely burned by a chicken nugget.

Two Florida police officers accused of twice putting their 3 1/2-year-old son in a jail cell to punish him for potty training accidents are still on the job while an investigation continues.

A firefighter from Georgia and two fathers who drowned while trying to save their children are among at least 10 recent victims of dangerous rip currents along Gulf of Mexico beaches stretching across Florida’s Panhandle to Gulf Shores, Alabama.

Ercan Kara and Martín Ojeda both had a goal and an assist to power Orlando City to a 3-1 victory over Inter Miami.

A jury in Florida says McDonald’s and a franchise holder are fault after a hot Chicken McNugget from a Happy Meal fell on a little girl’s leg and caused second-degree burns.

A Florida prosecutor has ordered an investigation into shots being fired at a couple who mistakenly turned onto the wrong property in a Fort Lauderdale suburb.

A widow is suing a cruise line, alleging that it let her husband's body decompose after he died of a heart attack.

South Florida has begun draining streets and otherwise cleaning up after an unprecedented storm that dumped upward of 2 feet of rain in a matter of hours.

Nearly a foot of rain fell in a matter of hours in Fort Lauderdale – causing widespread flooding, the closure of the city’s airport and the suspension of high-speed commuter rail service for the Broward County region.

A South Florida deputy accused of using a Taser stun gun on a man and taking his cell phone while the man was trying to video-record a family member’s arrest faces misdemeanor charges.

If you're an angler who's always wanted to catch a great white shark, a North Dakota family recently took a fishing trip in South Florida that might make you red in the gills.

A teenage boy is facing a felony charge in Broward County after recently causing a scare with a graphic of a cat holding a rifle.

A flight to Florida from Cuba was forced to turn back Sunday after it struck birds that caused an engine to catch fire and filled the cabin with smoke.

Court records show a Florida judge has issued an arrest warrant for rapper Kodak Black for failing a drug test while on bail for a drug charge.

A third case of a defendant who was arrested by an elections police unit created by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and a Republican-controlled Florida Legislature has been thrown out.

Only in South Florida.

Gov. Ron DeSantis is holding a news conference in Fort Lauderdale.

As the Parkland school shooter’s death penalty phase gets closer to an end, the jury has been prepared to be isolated and away from their families in a secret location.

Gonzalo Higuaín scored two goals in his first match since announcing he will retire after the season, and Inter Miami clinched a playoff spot with a 4-1 victory over Orlando City.

A missing child alert was issued for a 3-year-old Florida boy who was last seen in Fort Lauderdale, according to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.

Look closely at who's included in your group chats.

Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Thursday at least 20 people across Florida were charged with voter fraud after an investigation conducted by the newly created Office of Election Crimes and Security.

A restaurant customer in Fort Lauderdale has died of a bacterial infection after eating raw oysters.

The Florida Board of Medicine is set to discuss state guidance against gender-affirming treatments for children at its upcoming meeting.

A Lamborghini burst into flames after running past a stop sign, crashing into a vehicle, and going airborne to collide with a home’s roof and wall.

A presumptive case of monkeypox is being investigated in South Florida.

The owner of a Fort Lauderdale food boat is promising to rebuild after his vessel sank on Mother’s Day while workers were still on board.

Haskins was attempting to cross Interstate 595′s westbound lanes when he died April 9, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.

Officials say a teenage boy died and six other children were injured when a tractor-trailer crashed into a car on U.S. 27 in South Florida.

A large dog fatally mauled a longtime volunteer at a Florida animal shelter who was trying to help it acclimate to humans after it was found in the Everglades.

Fire officials say a group of diners fell in the water after the deck of a Florida waterfront restaurant collapsed.

Officials say a South Florida hospital has temporarily closed its maternity ward due to staff-shortages related to recent outbreaks of COVID-19.

Gov. Ron DeSantis called on the federal government Monday to allow states to directly purchase monoclonal antibody treatments from companies, saying the state is ready to open new monoclonal antibody treatment sites but is waiting on treatments.

Vendors and all adult visitors will be required to wear face masks when visiting Broward County public school campuses, the school board decided Friday during an emergency hearing.

A cruise out of South Florida will skip two ports after 55 people onboard tested positive for COVID-19.

Three conservation groups have filed formal notice of their intent to sue the Environmental Protection Agency if it doesn't take steps to protect manatees from water pollution in Florida.

Police say a 16-year-old South Florida high school student was arrested after authorities found a loaded firearm in a small bag.

A teacher in South Florida has been fired for repeatedly refusing to wear a mask.

A judge has rejected an attempt by Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz’s attorneys to bar the parents of his 17 victims from testifying about the trauma the murders caused.

A train belonging to Florida’s higher-speed passenger rail service struck and killed a man walking on the tracks just weeks after the company reopened from the pandemic.

A South Florida judge declared a mistrial in a murder case after jurors failed to agree on a verdict following more than five days of deliberations.

A training session designed to teach Fort Lauderdale city employees the best ways to survive in an active shooter situation is on hold after a worker was injured.

Gov. Ron DeSantis holds a news conference in Fort Lauderdale.

Biologists were taken by surprise by a record number of leatherback turtle nests found along South Florida beaches this year.

The families of those killed, wounded and scarred in the 2018 Florida high school massacre have reached a $25 million settlement with the district.

An app designed to help save lives by targeting the location of an emergency at a school is not popular with teachers and other eligible employees because they don’t trust it.

A woman driving on the Florida Turnpike was shot by someone in another vehicle, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.

As a new law goes into effect banning vaccine passports in Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis reiterated his commitment to protecting jobs in the state.

Two men have been sentenced to decades in prison for robbing and killing a South Florida plumber.

Authorities say a Chicago woman falsely claimed a bomb was on a plane at a South Florida airport after missing her flight.

Authorities say a Brazilian man who died in a plane crash in South America in 2005 is responsible for the slayings of three Florida women two decades ago.

The Florida Department of Corrections is temporarily closing several North Florida prisons due to flooding at one facilty and staffing shortages in the others.

The parents of a 1-year-old boy who drowned in the Florida Everglades after a car wreck have been arrested.

A judge has ruled that the former school resource officer accused of hiding during a Florida mass school shooting will have to convince a jury that he wasn’t criminally negligent.

Hillsborough and Miami-Dade counties have become the third and fourth school districts in Florida to adopt stricter mask mandates, a day after school boards in Broward and Alachua counties faced threats of severe penalties for defying Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration, which says parents should decide whether their children wear masks.

Tropical Depression Grace is drenching Haiti, dumping up to 15 inches of rain on a quake-damaged landscape as thousands of people huddle in fields and search for survivors.

Tropical Depression Grace is drenching Haiti, dumping up to 15 inches of rain on a quake-damaged landscape as thousands of people huddle in fields and search for survivors.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is launching a rapid response unit to expand the use of monoclonal antibodies to relieve pressure at hospitals that continue to report a rise in COVID-19 patients.

COVID-19 has strained some Florida hospitals so much that ambulance services and fire departments can no longer respond as usual to every call.

The United States Coast Guard offloaded drugs worth more than $1.4 billion at Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale.

Coronavirus hospitalizations are once again surging as the virus’ more potent delta variant cuts across the country.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is downplaying a spike in COVID-19 cases that’s shattered state hospitalization.

A Florida woman is charged with murder stemming from a decades-old shaken baby case.

Florida’s COVID-19 hospitalizations again jumped significantly this week as the vaccination rate in rural counties where some of the worst outbreaks are occurring remains well below the state and national average.

Florida’s COVID-19 hospitalization numbers are again increasing, ending months of steady decline that began when widespread vaccinations became available.

A 74-year-old man was arrested on Saturday after making a false bomb threat at Fort-Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, according to the Broward Sheriff’s Office.

A “security investigation” at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport prompted evacuations of two terminals Saturday morning, according to airport officials.

A Florida man has pleaded guilty to stealing $24 million in COVID-19 relief money by using fake identities and shell companies to fraudulently apply for financial assistance.

The cruise line industry is making a comeback after the first ship with paying passengers on board set sail from a U.S. port in more than a year.

A goal outside the box from Nani in the 80th minute helped Orlando City defeat Inter Miami 2-1 on Friday night.

There's a big setback for Royal Caribbean in its push to set sail again from Florida.