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A 4-day-old infant child died after being attacked by his family's pit bull terrier Sunday evening at his home in Jacksonville, Florida, according to John Harrell, a spokesman with the Florida's Department of Children and Family.

The US Department of Transportation will award $800 million more to Florida toward building a high-speed rail line from Tampa to Orlando, according to Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla.

A Panhandle yard sale shopper's potted violet contained a touch of Grandma Marge. Piper Gaffrey, of Fort Walton Beach, told the Northwest Florida Daily News on Wednesday that the potted violet, which contained her grandmother's ashes, was accidentally sold at the weekend sale.

Two people are dead and five injured after a series of shootings in and around Gainesville, Florida, police said.

Six people have died in an apparent murder-suicide in Riviera Beach, Florida, police said Monday.

Plans by a Florida church to burn copies of the Quran have been called off, the pastor said Friday, apparently seeking to end confusion over what he intends to do.

He says the act would be a 'recruitment bonanza for Al Qaeda.'President Obama exhorted a Florida minister Thursday to "listen to those better angels" and call off his plan to engage in a Koran-burning protest this weekend.

The Florida town of Gainesville wants nothing to do with the Koran burning of Terry Jones, an ugly stunt aimed at reviving the fortunes of a failing church

Gen. David Petraeus says burning the Quran could endanger U.S. troops in Afghanistan and Americans worldwide.

Florida has set up foreclosures-only courts to reduce the state’s huge backlog of cases, but borrowers’ lawyers are critical of the process.