Authorities in Florida went to check out a report of an alligator staking out a shed in Polk County — only to find it was a gator-shaped pool floatie. “Deputy ...

A St. Augustine family found an alligator in their backyard pool, and a St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office deputy safely relocated it. Florida has approximately 1.3 million alligators across all 67 ...

It was all in a day's work for a Florida sheriff's deputy who responded to a home where a young alligator was spotted swimming in a backyard pool in Northeast Florida. The encounter happened July 25 ...

A Florida sheriff’s deputy has captured the imagination of social media after he was seen giving an alligator a ride in his patrol car — and the predator was made to wear a seat belt. It happened ...