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Florida child welfare officials fired an investigator who they said forged documents about substance-abuse treatment for a mother six months before her 11-month old baby died in a sweltering car.

Davie Police and the South Florida Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force arrested a man they say solicited child pornography from a 14-year-old girl.

Florida child welfare officials have fired a child abuse investigator they say forged documents about substance abuse treatment for a mother six months before that she left her 11-month old baby in a sweltering car where he died.

Following their surrender and arrest last week, Julio, 48, received a $250,000 surety bond and Raiza, 39, received a $100,000 surety bond.

A paved bike trail stretching from coast to coast across the center of Florida can still get built despite Gov.

Members of Scouts for Equality hold a rally to call for equality and inclusion for gays in the Boy Scouts of America on Wednesday in Washington, DC.

At a time when the music industry was dominated by the British invasion, four young men from the Northeast rose to the top becoming one of the most important American bands in rock and roll history.

For decades, people have been getting rid of cockroaches by setting out bait mixed with poison.

Amid lingering concerns about his national security policies, President Barack Obama is outlining measures to clarify the deadly use of drones against terror suspects.

This week started off with the Alibi's 16th anniversary, which started on Wednesday and went through Saturday.

A north Florida man faces charges after fatally shooting a red-bellied woodpecker that was eating the plums from his trees.

The Republican-controlled Florida Legislature scored a victory Wednesday in a long-running battle over how lawmakers drew up new districts for themselves and Congress.

While Ty reclined drowsily in the back of Vernon Yates' white pickup, about a dozen reporters and photographers stood less than 2 feet from his open cage, snapping photos of him - and of themselves, standing within inches of the 400-pound Siberian tiger.

Have you ever seen what Florida and the Native American culture might have been like in ancient times? There are more places than you might think nestled in and around Florida's west coast that depict through ancient artifacts, mounds, and other archeological finds what it might have been like well over 1500 years ago.

A New Mexico man is facing federal charges in the Florida Panhandle after authorities say he sold two African elephant tusks.

PHOTO PROVIDED Doug Christ, left, DeSoto County's emergency manager, and Program Specialist Jean Garland pose with Dr.

Florida leads the nation by a wide margin in the number of felons who have served their sentences but cannot vote.

JACKSONVILLE - This summer 110 Florida Baptist college students will spend their vacations serving in ways to advance God's Kingdom when they travel to 17 countries and throughout the state of Florida as student summer missionaries.

It's not unusual for a cat to get a hairball, but a 400-pound tiger needed help from veterinary surgeons in Florida when he couldn't hack up a basketball-size hairball by himself.

If this isn't crooked, it's only because we've defined crookedness down so much that it doesn't exist anymore : Two months after contributing $110,000 to Gov.