Kristina Bugante

Remember Fergus, the resilient golden retriever who captured the hearts of many after he suffered third-degree burns from an acid attack last year?

A white Florida man who told detectives he had a “pet peeve” about illegal parking in handicapped spots was convicted late Friday of manslaughter for the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man in a dispute over a handicapped spot.

A New York couple’s luxurious vacation house in Florida has been taken over by dozens of black vultures that are vomiting and defecating everywhere.

Two men were caught on surveillance cameras boldly burglarizing a police officer’s cruiser in front of his home in northwest Miami-Dade.

A video making the rounds on social media shows two patrons at a Florida Burger King tell the manager of the restaurant to “go back to Mexico” because he was speaking Spanish.

The parents of one of the victims of the Parkland mass shooting are suing the United States, alleging that the FBI failed to prevent the deadly attack, according to a lawsuit filed Friday.

A California man was arrested after he trespassed into the Adrienne Arsht Center in Miami and walked onto the stage minutes before the start of the first night of the Democratic presidential debates, police said.

When a South Florida mother lost her Marine son to suicide, she made it her life’s mission to help veterans cope.

A chartered jet carrying 143 people from the U.S. military base in Cuba tried to land in a thunderstorm and ended up in the river at Naval Air Station Jacksonville. Authorities said everyone on board emerged without critical injuries, lining up on the wings and waiting to be rescued. The Boeing 737 arriving in north Florida from Naval Station Guantanamo...

Divers are in the waters of Biscayne National Park and trying to solve a mystery almost two centuries old. The underwater archeologists with the National Park Service are out to make rare find. They are on a hunt for a ship called the Guerrero that was carrying slaves to the Americas.

A zebra was shot and killed by its owner Wednesday after it escaped in Florida, sheriff’s officials said.

A South Florida woman says she opened her heart and her home to a stray dog, only to have that animal turn into a total terror — first killing her cat, then attacking her and leaving her with severe physical and mental wounds.

A family is seeking justice after a South Florida man was crushed by a dumpster while he was working nearly three years ago.

A South Florida gymnastics instructor is behind bars on charges of possessing and compiling child pornography, and authorities are concerned there may be other victims.

Commissioners investigating the causes of the Parkland school massacre heavily criticized the actions of a sheriff’s deputy assigned to the school campus, calling him a coward for not confronting the gunman.

What could be cuter than kids reading to dogs?

Federal officials are investigating flutes, possibly contaminated by bodily fluids, that were given to students from school districts all across Southern California as part of an investigation of an individual accused of inappropriate sexual conduct.

A girl was hospitalized with broken bones after a driver plowed her vehicle into a Redlands home while the 10-year-old was sleeping in her bedroom Thursday morning.

Road crews standing at the base of a Northern California hillside ran to safety as rocks and dirt tumbled onto the 101 Freeway. Photographer Wendy Kornberg captured dramatic video of Sunday’s slide, which shut down the freeway about 6 miles north of Leggett. As her camera picked up the ominous sound of the slide, Kornberg yelled, “Run!”

A researcher says vast numbers of Southern California trees are dying from insects and disease — an unprecedented die-off that may cost the region billions of dollars and leave it much less green.