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A Florida homeless man strangled and used an ax to bludgeon to death a 58-year-old who had been counseling him, only to be arrested days later after trying to sell the victim's collector coins, police said.

The owner of a failed security business barricaded himself in his soon-to-be foreclosed home, shot at deputies and then killed himself in this well-groomed Central Florida town built by Disney.

Wesley Snipes was ordered on Friday to start serving a three-year prison sentence for a felony tax conviction after a Florida judge rejected his bid for a new trial.

A Florida woman fired from her company says she told she was "too sensual" for promotion and was dismissed because she complained of harassment. “You should try to hide your breasts because they are too distracting,” one manager allegedly told Amy-Erin Blakely, 43.

Seventeen schools in and around Pembroke Pines in south Florida are under a lockdown Wednesday because of a "credible threat," a spokeswoman for Broward County Schools told CNN.

Last week's election was bad for Democrats. The next one could be worse. Senate Democrats running in 2012 will be trying to hold their jobs in states where Republicans just scored major congressional and gubernatorial victories - Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, New Mexico and Virginia.

Police in Florida have charged David Cassidy, a former child actor, teen heartthrob and pop singer, with driving under the influence.

A former karate instructor should be put to death for leading a group of men dressed like ninjas to rob and kill a wealthy Florida couple while their nine special-needs children slept or cowered nearby, a jury recommended Friday.

Florida's three-way Senate race grew testier Friday as the last-place Democratic candidate denied claims that former President Bill Clinton had advised him to drop out, saying the idea came instead from his independent rival, Gov. Charlie Crist...

The second in a pair of the largest cruise liners in the world -- an extravagant behemoth spanning nearly four football fields, with a 3-D move theater, an open-air central park and room for 8,300 people -- set sail Friday for its new home port in Florida.