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Officials say they found gold coins among the donations in a Salvation Army kettle in Florida.

A skydiving Santa looking to make a grand entrance while taking an Elf on the Shelf to a 9-year-old girl crashed into a tree and light pole before hitting a Florida beach and breaking his leg.

U.S. Border patrol agents have detained a Florida teenager trying to enter Canada whom police want to interview in connection with the death of his grandmother.

The parents of a Florida girl suffering from problems with 17 rotten teeth are facing child abuse charges for failing to get her treatment.

Police in Florida say a daughter suspected her mother's live-in partner was having an affair, so she looked at files under his profile in their household computer.

Authorities say a 325-pound (150-kilogram) woman is charged with killing a 9-year-old girl by sitting on the child as punishment.

Millions of poor people live on the edge of ruin in Florida, and Hurricane Irma has pushed them closer to it.

As Hurricane Irma buzz-sawed its way up Florida's Gulf Coast, it looked for several hours like the heavily populated Tampa Bay area could face catastrophic wind damage and flooding from the first major storm to roar ashore there in 96 years.

A Florida nun is pitching in on the cleanup efforts following Hurricane Irma by taking a chain saw to downed trees while dressed in her full habit.

An 8-year-old Florida girl has died five months after she was injured while drinking boiling water through a straw on a dare.