Nationally-ranked St. Thomas Aquinas faces McArthur in a Florida High School football game on Friday, Sept. 19, 2025 in Hollywood, Fla.

A Florida man convicted of killing his wife's family before setting their house on fire was put to death, extending the record number of executions in the state this year to 12.

New hurdles for groups gathering petitions mean efforts to put Medicaid and marijuana measures on the ballot could falter.

A Florida federal judge on Friday tossed out a $15 billion defamation lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump against The New York Times. U.S. District Judge Steven Merryday ruled that Trump’s 85-page lawsuit was overly long and full of “tedious and burdensome” language that had no bearing on the legal case.

The No. 4 Hurricanes host rival Florida at Hard Rock Stadium for the first time since 2013. Miami is rolling, and the Gators are struggling early in the year.

A fight broke out and pepper spray was deployed at Lake Worth Community High School in Lake Worth Beach, officials said.

Florida has formally restored basketball great Vernon Maxwell’s final two years of college statistics, a move that once again makes him the program’s all-time leading scorer. Athletic director Scott Stricklin urged the Gators to reinstate Maxwell’s numbers four decades after “Mad Max” first stepped on campus,

Florida’s unemployment rate inched up to 3.8% in August, with the lowest rate in the state remaining in South Florida, according to a report released Friday by the state Department of Commerce.

Any property tax cut plan will involve a cost – either in a reduction in local government services, or in shifting the tax burden.