The Senate Committee on Fiscal Policy advanced a bill Tuesday to the chamber floor that would increase school safety ...

Sen. Joe Gruters, R-Sarasota, said he’s sponsoring the legislation because of that Supreme Court ruling, saying victims’ ...

PUNTA GORDA, Fla. (WFLA) — The Punta Gorda Police Department addressed the viral confrontation Saturday morning, between a Florida charter captain and a fisherman that led to an arrest earlier ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WFLA) — A bill to ban cellphones in Florida schools took a step forward this week after passing a ...

2025 Google A man who has been Tased and shot during encounters with police is once again under arrest — this time as a suspect in his father’s murder, according to investigators in Florida.

Police say the incident happened on Tuesday under the Barron Collier Bridge in Punta Gorda. Several viewers sent WEAR News the video believing the incident took place in Northwest Florida ...

A Florida man was arrested in the murder of his girlfriend, who deputies say he allegedly shot and killed while their three children were in bed with her, then staged the crime as a home invasion.

Florida Highway Patrol troopers arrested three men for street racing after encountering a Corvette speeding at 97 MPH on I-4.

By Clarissa-Jan Lim Florida police recently arrested a transgender woman for using the women’s restroom in the state Capitol in Tallahassee, in what is believed to be the first such arrest in a ...