The Latest Breaking News from Fla

Trying to capture the program’s second win at Florida’s O’Connell Center, the No. 20 Missouri basketball team instead dropped its third straight conference game away from home, falling to the Gators, 73-64, on Saturday in Gainesville, Fla.

TAMPA, Fla. — Barring an unforeseen change of heart, the Bucs plan to retain Todd Bowles as their head coach for the 2023 season regardless of the outcome of Monday night’s wild-card playoff game against the Dallas Cowboys, the Tampa Bay Times confirmed Saturday.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — After a two-year investigation into Florida’s black market trade of dangerous, venomous snakes, eight men are facing charges for their alleged participation in the deals.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A Leon County Circuit Court judge on Friday refused to dismiss a lawsuit against Ron DeSantis brought by a North Miami Beach state senator who has accused Florida’s governor of illegally using taxpayer funds to fly migrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts last September.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida has long been a tax haven, but new trust laws enacted over the past three years friendly to the heirs of the Walmart fortune and other families will make the state even more accommodating to the uber-rich looking to hide wealth and avoid taxes for generations…

A killer whale more than 20 feet long died after beaching itself in Palm Coast, Fla. This is the third known orca to be stranded in the southeastern U.S. and the first since 1956, an official says.

TAMPA, Fla. — Steven Stamkos left the building Thursday night with everyone wanting just one more goal. The Lightning captain snapped a four-game drought with a power-play goal to pull within a goal of the 500 mark in a 5-4 win over the Vancouver Canucks at Amalie Arena.

TAMPA, Fla. — When it comes to the immediate playing future of center Ryan Jensen, the Bucs have been as vociferous as a silent snap count.

PENSACOLA, Fla. — A federal trial zeroing in on the Biden administration’s immigration policies this week provided a glimpse into the minutiae of everyday decisions that lead to the detention and release of tens of thousands of undocumented immigrants who cross the southern border.