Florida Amazon Driver Hailed A Hero For Saving Elderly Man From House Fire
An Amazon driver is being hailed as a hero for saving an elderly man stuck in a burning home in New Smyrna Beach in Central Florida.
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An Amazon driver is being hailed as a hero for saving an elderly man stuck in a burning home in New Smyrna Beach in Central Florida.
Some fun on the water was caught on camera off the coast of Naples over the weekend, but what makes this video so unique is because that fun was taking place between a dolphin who decided to ride the waves right next to a man foil boarding.
Today, December 1st, is the qualification deadline for recent high-school graduates to meet SAT or ACT test-score requirements to qualify for Bright Futures scholarships.
Some Florida Keys residents staged a ceremonial burning of hurricane warning flags Monday evening to mark the official Nov. 30 end of the record-breaking 2020 Atlantic hurricane season.
Gov. Ron DeSantis doubled down on his opposition to school closures on Monday by announcing Florida's public schools will continue in-person learning through the spring semester, and parents will be notified and encouraged to send their children to in-person instruction if the student is not performing well with virtual instruction. However, parents can opt-out, allowing their child to remain virtual.
Disney is laying off 4,000 more workers as the company struggles during the pandemic.
The state of Florida is fast approaching one million COVID-19 cases.
Get ready for the first significant cold front of the season.
Public school instruction will continue in-person and online this spring as coronavirus cases continue to increase across Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis said Monday as Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried blasts the governor for his handling of the pandemic.
The Florida Department of Health reports there are 6,659 new cases of COVID-19 statewide and more than 2,700 of those are in Miami-Dade and Broward.
A long-debated proposal that would allow people with concealed-weapons licenses to carry guns on Florida college and university campuses was filed Monday for consideration during the 2021 legislative session.
A Florida man who had been missing at sea was found alive on Sunday, clinging to his capsized boat about 86 miles off the east coast of Port Canaveral, Florida.
A Florida man who has spent 31 years in prison for a nonviolent marijuana crime could soon be a free man.
The Florida Department of Health reports there are 7,363 new cases of COVID-19 statewide.
Forty critically endangered Kemp's ridley sea turtles arrived in the subtropical Florida Keys Saturday to warm up and receive treatment after suffering "cold stunning" in the waters off Cape Cod, Mass.
The rain has helped the air quality, with the unhealthy air quality alert lifted in the area.
Detectives say that the mother found her son shot in the shoulder at the home and drove him to Jackson South Medical Center. They believe the gunshot was self-inflicted.
The closure comes amid escalating operating costs for the facility, which are now estimated to total nearly $1 billion.
The Broward Sheriff's Office has provided police and fire services at the airport for decades, but with rising costs, commissioners say they have to look at alternatives
The Miami-Dade Fire Rescue said a pediatric patient was taken to the hospital after they received a call about a possible shooting.
Investigators say Jaydon Williams, 21, was shot multiple times early Saturday morning at a vacation rental in the 1900 block of Funston Street.
The family has launched an online petition that has gathered more than 600 signatures, urging city officials to install safety improvements.
At George's Restaurant, fans draped in sky blue and white stripes filled the establishment, chanting and cheering throughout the match against Egypt.
Arrest reports allege the women offered sex acts for money to undercover officers at several local massage parlors.
The Public Service Commission approved the refund, which will result in a one-month reduction in base rates to reflect any "revenue over-recovery" charges from FPL, which serves more than 12 million Floridians across 43 counties.
In courtroom testimony, Shandelle Maycock recounted the harrowing night her daughter was abandoned in the Everglades, describing the horrors they endured.
A former prison guard trainee has been sentenced to death for the 2019 execution-style killings of five women inside a Florida bank.
Florida coach Billy Napier is getting a fourth season to try to get the Gators back to their winning ways.
A Florida man has filed a federal lawsuit against Jacksonville sheriff's officers who severely beat him last year after he ran from a traffic stop.
The Marion County Sheriff's deputy told authorities that he accidentally shot and killed his girlfriend while cleaning his gun.
Former Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum has been arrested on drug possession charges in Alabama after police say they pulled him over for erratic driving and found marijuana and meth in his vehicle.
Amid simmering tensions between the U.S. and some NATO allies over Iran and Greenland, President Trump is tightening bonds with Turkey.
Prosecutors in Charlie Kirk's murder case are seeking to convince a judge they have enough evidence to try the man accused of killing him and seek the death penalty.
President Trump held separate calls with Russia's Vladimir Putin and Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskyy to discuss ending the war.
These six presidential speeches are some that have most reverberated through the ages, and whose impacts are still felt today.
The likely Republican candidate for governor, Congressman Byron Donalds, said he would vote for it, but as he told CBS Miami's Jim DeFede, if it does fail, they will tackle the issue again next year.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has avoided talking about both topics with opponents calling him "the most corrupt attorney general Florida has had."
On Thursday, Governor Ron DeSantis announced the closing of Alligator Alcatraz, the highly controversial immigration detention center that was the subject of numerous lawsuits as well as allegations of abuse.
The 29-year-old attorney is hoping to stand out from the pack by going after young voters.
More than two decades after voters were promised a new facility to treat people with mental illnesses, rather than warehousing them in the county jail, the Miami-Dade County Commission gave final approval on Tuesday to open the Miami Center for Mental Health and Recovery.
A recall has been issued for frozen blueberries sold at Publix stores in Georgia, Florida and other Southern states after 12 people became sick, the FDA says.
A new Florida law requires drug prescribers to complete sickle cell training, aiming to improve care and address stigma faced by patients.
Former NFL running back Chris Johnson announced that he was diagnosed with ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, in a "Good Morning America" interview.
Gallup found that only 49% of Americans were "cost-secure" last year, with concerns about medical bills and prescription costs rising across income groups.
Dr. Peter Stafford was working with a missionary group in the Congo when he came down with the virus last month.
AARP is sounding the alarm because it is so easy to fall for these schemes, but there are simple things everyone can do to protect themselves.
A lawsuit filed late last month took Chicago-based McDonald's to task over the McRib sandwich, calling its name a form of false advertising.
Florida insurance policyholders could be seeing some form of relief in their wallets thanks to market reforms made statewide, Gov. Ron DeSantis said.
The company said Tuesday that 85% of its retail products and "nearly all" of its school offerings are already made without "certified colors."
Less than two days after Delta Air Lines offered $30,000 to each passenger on board the flight that crashed and flipped in Toronto on Monday afternoon, the company is facing its first two lawsuits in the incident — and they likely won't be the last.
The Empire State Building lit up in blue for Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's wedding Friday night.
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce were married as they celebrated their wedding with hundreds of guests Friday at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce donated to 20 local and national charities ahead of their wedding Friday.
Ticket reseller StubHub abruptly canceled customers' tickets to World Cup matches, costing them thousands of dollars, a lawsuit alleges.
Carín León sees the World Cup as something that pulls different cultures together.
