Florida Man Guilty In Illegal Lobster Shipping Case
Shipping seafood isn't as simple as one person thought it would be. A Florida man must pay a $250,000 fine after pleading guilty to illegally shipping spiny lobsters he obtained to China.
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Shipping seafood isn't as simple as one person thought it would be. A Florida man must pay a $250,000 fine after pleading guilty to illegally shipping spiny lobsters he obtained to China.
The 2014 college football season is fast approaching and the preseason polls are out. Jameis Winston and defending national champion Florida State are No. 1 in The Associated Press preseason college football poll.
State child welfare officials recently added five years of data to their new website aimed at improving transparency around child abuse deaths. The site was mandated by the Legislature.
Fire crews responded to a fire at a Coral Spring school Saturday.
One week after the murder of a Rabbi as he walked to Temple in Northeast Miami-Dade,there was a lot of police presence in the neighborhood where the shooting happened.
Backup quarterback Matt Moore led the Miami Dolphins on two touchdown drives in a 20-14 preseason victory over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Saturday night.
A driver woken up by police at a busy intersection led authorities on a chase before being arrested.
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A man arrested in connection to an explosion at a Miami gas station on Friday is out of jail
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Florida's top election official is recommending that the state hold special elections for Congress next year, even though that may violate federal law.
Jeb Bush is lending his political star power to embattled Florida Gov. Rick Scott, who is locked in a tight race for re-election in the nation's largest swing-voting state.
Fire officials are investigating an explosion at a Miami gas station Friday afternoon.
Proposed special elections in the seven congressional districts redrawn by the Legislature earlier this week would have to wait until at least spring of next year, Secretary of State Ken Detzner's office said in a court filing Friday.
A loggerhead sea turtle, rehabilitated at the Florida Keys-based Turtle Hospital after being struck by a boat, was fitted with a satellite tracking transmitter and released from a Florida Keys beach Friday afternoon.
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Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez is set to meet with leaders of the county's police union amid possible layoffs of about 400 employees.
A 14-year old high school football player collapsed during practice Wednesday and later died.
Florida Governor Rick Scott approved new maps that will change several congressional districts in the state but the maps now face opposition.
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A local artist's idea of a protest has landed him in hot water.
Much like "street view" mapping—which is available for pretty much every street throughout the country—scientists are working on bringing views of underwater wonders to a computer or smartphone screen near you.
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The victim's family is preparing for the possibility that he may not survive, they say.
The suspect, Derrick Coca, was ordered by a judge to stay away from the park where the statue honoring Jakey Duque—who died in 2020—was taken.
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The Marion County Sheriff's deputy told authorities that he accidentally shot and killed his girlfriend while cleaning his gun.
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President Trump said Karoline Leavitt will be leaving her role to focus on her young family.
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The notice from a U.S. government agency does not indicate in which stores the beef was sold.
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