Falling Palm Tree Kills Woman In Hammock In Florida
Florida officials say a woman lying on a hammock was killed after a palm tree fell on her.
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Florida officials say a woman lying on a hammock was killed after a palm tree fell on her.
People in Lennox Isle gated community in Coral Springs looked on as an officer walked away from a lake with a toy car that belonged to a 4-year-old who drowned.
A 29-year-old man has been sentenced to life in prison for the death of 8-month-old child left in his care.
Authorities are investigating the death of a 31-year-old man who had been diving off Key West.
A TV news anchor and a photojournalist were killed Monday when a tree fell on their vehicle in North Carolina as they reported on flooding and severe weather associated with Subtropical Storm Alberto, the television station said.
A newer cholesterol drug, used with older statin medicines, modestly lowered heart risks and deaths in a big study of heart attack survivors.
An Illinois woman died during a cosmetic procedure at a clinic in Doral. Police are investigating.
A Minnesota man is accused of decapitating another man after his girlfriend told him the man sexually assaulted her.
The Florida panther is one of the most endangered animals in the world, which is why federal wildlife officials are now offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction in the shooting of a Florida panther.
The woman who founded Weight Watchers has died at 91.
The lawsuit filed in Manhattan State Supreme Court paints a picture of a careless, cocky staff of doctors who ran roughshod over Rivers while she was unconscious, and it suggests that she died because of their incompetence.
It's one of life's great mysteries - what happens to us after we die. Now thanks to a new groundbreaking study we may be closer than ever to finding out.
The two-day lobster mini-season got off to a deadly start in Pompano Beach.
Elaine Stritch, the brash theater performer whose gravelly, gin-laced voice and impeccable comic timing made her a theatrical icon, has died at age 89.
Relatives of a teen who died after being hit by a police Taser are organizing activities to mark the one year anniversary of his death.
He is a "Superkid" who is dancing on air. One could say he has lept out of hard times, a poor and rough neighborhood, raised by a young widow. Neighborhood bets were on Ricky White growing up to be a troubled kid. But as Chief Investigative Reporter Michele Gillen has found, he's being recognized as a superstar and already helping those dancing behind him.
The life of renowned Miami Criminal Defense attorney, Richard Sharpstein, may have ended suddenly, but the leading lady in his life hopes to continue his legacy.
A teenage girl who was shot while simply sitting on a park bench has died, police said late Friday.
Federal scientists are warning consumers about parasitic worms found in an invasive eel species that's made a home in Florida.
A Lakeland man who said he suffered a spider bite last summer has died.
A party bus carrying at least five people on a Friday night excursion in Miami had an accident, rolled over, landed on its' side and a young woman was thrown from the vehicle.
A pedestrian standing outside of a disabled vehicle was hit early Saturday morning. That person died according to officials at the scene.
The decision by a Danish zoo to kill a giraffe named Marius sparked outrage around the world. Copenhagen Zoo officials said they had to euthanize the healthy two-year-old giraffe because it was genetically too similar to other giraffes at the zoo and the zoo wanted to prevent inbreeding.
A Pembroke Pines man died in an early morning traffic crash on N. Douglas Road.
Nearly one year after the bodies of Canadian snowbirds David Pichosky and Rochelle Wise were found in a Hallandale beach condo, police have released new information in the unsolved murders.
