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FILE – Clouds hover over the entrance of the Florida State Prison in Starke, Fla., Aug. 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Curt Anderson, file)

Florida man executed for killings of man and his girlfriend during home invasion

December 18, 2025 at 6:54 p.m.

Frank Athen Walls, 58, convicted of fatally shooting a man and his girlfriend during a home invasion robbery, was put to death Thursday in a record 19th execution in Florida...

This undated photo provided by Florida Department of Corrections shows Richard Barry Randolph. (Florida Department of Correction via AP)

Florida man executed for killing his former manager at a convenience store

November 21, 2025 at 11:49 a.m.

Richard Barry Randolph, convicted of raping and fatal beating his manager at a Florida convenience store in 1988, was put to death Thursday in Florida's 17th execution this year.

FILE – The SS United States travels along the Hudson River as it begins its first voyage to Europe from New York, July 3, 1952, with the view of the Midtown Manhattan skyline including the Empire State Building at center right. (AP Photo/Jack Harris, File)

Final resting place set for the historic SS United States to become an artificial reef off Florida

November 18, 2025 at 7:41 p.m.

A historic ocean liner will become the world’s largest artificial reef after it’s sunk off Florida’s Gulf Coast early next year.

Workers prepare to submerge concrete cars that will be part of an underwater marine sculpture park off South Beach,Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025, in Miami Beach, Fla. Native corals grown in a lab will be attached to the cars to create a reef. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)

Underwater sculpture park brings coral reef art to Miami Beach

November 3, 2025 at 10:48 a.m.

Over several days late last month, crews lowered 22 life-sized cars into the ocean, several hundred feet off South Beach. The project was organized by a group that pioneers underwater...

Florida man executed for 1998 rape and murder of his neighbor

October 28, 2025 at 6:49 p.m.

A 65-year-old man convicted of raping and killing his neighbor was put to death in the record 15th execution this year in Florida.

Man convicted of 2 killings decades ago is the 14th person executed in Florida this year

October 14, 2025 at 7:56 p.m.

Samuel Lee Smithers, convicted of killing two women whose bodies were found in a rural pond in 1996, was put to death Tuesday evening in a record 14th execution this...

Dr. Inaki Bent, right, talks with Jonas Richards, left, while working with the Miami Street Medicine team to provide medical services to homeless people on Aug. 23, 2025, in Miami. (Lynne Sladky/AP)

How a Miami health care group is meeting homeless patients where they live

October 6, 2025 at 11:10 a.m.

A nonprofit group in South Florida is helping reduce the strain on emergency rooms by providing homeless people with health care where they live.

Record 13th Florida execution this year carried out on man convicted of killing a couple

October 2, 2025 at 1:39 p.m.

Victor Tony Jones, convicted of killing a married couple during a robbery in South Florida in 1990, was put to death Tuesday in a record 13th execution this year in...

This courtroom sketch shows Secret Service agent Robert Fercano identifying the defendant in the trial of Ryan Routh, who is charged with attempting to assassinate Donald Trump last year at a golf course in South Florida, Thursday, Sept. 11, 2025, in Fort Pierce, Fla. (Lothar Speer via AP)

Man denies trying to assassinate Trump at his Florida golf course, as jury begins deliberating

September 24, 2025 at 4:52 p.m.

A man who represented himself against accusations that he tried to assassinate Donald Trump last year at his West Palm Beach golf course was found guilty by a federal jury.

Man accused of trying to assassinate Trump in Florida rests his case without testifying

September 23, 2025 at 11:24 a.m.

Prosecutors have said Ryan Routh spent weeks plotting to kill President Donald Trump before aiming a rifle through shrubbery as Trump played golf on Sept. 15, 2024, at his West...

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