The Latest Breaking News from Fla

ORLANDO, Fla. — Ten days before the first anniversary of 14-year-old tourist Tyre Sampson’s death on the Orlando Free Fall drop tower at ICON Park, cranes began arriving at the ride to start taking it down.

TAMPA, Fla. — Looking to get younger on the offensive line while creating salary cap space, the Bucs are trading guard Shaq Mason to the Texans for a swap of low-round picks.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Pat Schroeder, a Colorado congresswoman, presidential candidate and longtime Central Florida resident, died Monday. She was 82.

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — Buck Showalter’s spring training musings often veer between amusing and informative with the non sequitur somewhere in the middle. The pitch clock has been a particular point of fascination this spring and he keeps coming back to one question: What does it mean for beer…

The population of an endangered bird, the Everglade snail kite, has rebounded recently. Scientists it's all thanks to an invasive snail that has provided kites with a new abundant food source.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The minimum age of a person to buy a rifle and other long guns in Florida could be lowered from age 21 to age 18, reversing legislation enacted after Parkland’s school shooting.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Vice President Kamala Harris blasted Florida’s proposed six-week abortion ban on Monday, calling it an “extreme” attack that will put the government in charge of health care decisions and effectively wipe out abortion access throughout the South.

ORLANDO, Fla. — It was supposed to be a peaceful Florida vacation for a couple and their five children at a lake house in Wellington, but it ended in a nightmare, a lawsuit says.

CLEARWATER, Fla. — When Noah Song was training on a P-8 Poseidon aircraft in Jacksonville, Fla., preparing for a deployment to Japan, the Navy would put him in certain situations. Sitting in a cruise simulator, Song would have a different crew, a different flight, and a different scenario almost every…

BRADENTON, Fla. — A noticeable storyline of spring training thus far has been the decent amount of competency found in the Pirates' starting rotation.

NORTH PORT, Fla. — Braves right-hander Charlie Morton, at age 39, appreciates seeing the team’s other starters blossom.