U.S. officials who predict, prepare for and respond to natural disasters have a message for Floridians: It’s not a matter of if but when a hurricane will hit the state.

Houston Texans wide receiver Tank Dell was shot in Florida and sustained a minor wound, the team announced on social media.

Authorities in Florida say 10 people were wounded by a teenage gunman who opened fire during a crowded private party at a rented venue.

Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday morning is set to hold a news conference in Central Florida.

Planes have dropped fire retardant over the northern Texas Panhandle as firefighters are continuing efforts to stamp out the largest wildfire in state history.

A multi-plane crash took place at Orlando-Sanford International Airport Tuesday night, the Sanford Airport Fire Department told News 6.

A retired firefighter who threw a fire extinguisher at police officers during the U.S. Capitol riot has been sentenced to more than four years in prison.

An Amtrak spokesperson said Tuesday night a train that had stalled in Nassau County was moving again after being “temporarily disrupted due to mechanical issues.”

Southwest Georgia’s 2nd Congressional District may be the only Deep South House race in which the two major party candidates are remotely competitive.

The South Dakota attorney general’s office is not charging billionaire and philanthropist T.

Students at a central Florida high school are declaring victory after taking their protest to their school board over plans to censor a yearbook page showing a student walkout against the state's so-called “Don’t Say Gay” law.

A man who beat a maintenance worker to death with a shovel Thursday morning at a mosque is central Florida was later shot and wounded by deputies in a different county, officials said.

The killing of Trayvon Martin at the hands of a stranger still reverberates 10 years later -- in protest, in partisanship, in racial reckoning and reactionary response, in social justice and social media.

The South Dakota Supreme Court is weighing whether to unseal a search warrant and affidavits in an investigation into billionaire banker-turned-philanthropist T.

A trial is underway for a 61-year-old man facing a first-degree murder charge in the death of a U.S. Navy recruit found strangled and dumped in an overgrown central Florida field more than three decades ago.

Police say a Florida man stabbed his parents and sister with a samurai sword.

As of Thursday, there are roughly 7,000 Guard members in Washington, with thousands more on the way. Officials say Guard members from all 50 states, as well as the District of Columbia, are deploying to the city. As of Thursday, there are roughly 7,000 Guard members in Washington, with thousands more on the way. Officials say 3,000 to 4,000 of those Guard members are armed. Pentagon officials approved requests to have some Guard members armed with either long guns or handguns, particularly those Guard members assigned near the U.S. Capitol.

SANFORD, Fla. – Public high school students in one Florida county received more than eight million racist emails with “disgusting” messages, school district officials said. Students in Seminole County began receiving the messages on Saturday, and some of the emails made it to middle school students accounts as well, the Orlando Sentinel reported. School district officials say the spamming effort was blocked late Saturday, but officials were still working Tuesday to delete all of the messages. Many emails included racist and derogatory messages, with some referencing Russia and its president Vladimir Putin, school district spokesman Michael Lawrence told the newspaper in an email. The district said no student or district data was breached, and the effort did not disrupt any district operations.

That would mean hundreds of thousands of more men, women, and children living on the streets, in tents, shelters, cars, or motels throughout the country. “Families with children are the fastest-growing segment of the homeless population. Families make up close to 40% of the homeless population. Rajni Shankar-Brown has dedicated her life to changing how people and communities respond to the homeless. “Trying to build resources, ways that families can truly thrive and receive the support they need,” said Shankar-Brown.

Just a week after his release from the hospital, President Donald Trump returned to the campaign trail Monday for the first time since contracting the coronavirus as he tries to stage a late comeback in the election’s final stretch. Trump, whose doctor said Monday for the first time that he had received a negative test for COVID-19, faces a stubborn deficit in national and battleground state polling. He will be headlining a rally in Sanford, Florida — the first stop in a busy week that will include events in Pennsylvania, Iowa, North Carolina and Wisconsin. Click photo below to watch live. It’s scheduled to begin at 7 p.m.

Trump will address the group, expected to be at least several hundred supporters, from the White House balcony, according to an official. Announcement of the event came as Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government’s top infectious disease expert, cautioned the White House again to avoid large-scale gatherings of people without masks. The president’s White House doctor, Navy Cmdr. Sean Conley, said that means Trump, who has been surrounded by minimal staffing as he works out of the White House residence and the Oval Office, could return to holding events on Saturday. In the interview with Limbaugh, Trump again credited the experimental antibody drug he received last week with speeding his recovery.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. – A 22-year-old surfer was bit by a shark in New Smyrna Beach Friday afternoon, according to Volusia County Beach Safety Ocean Rescue. The Sanford woman was on her surfboard in chest deep water around 5 p.m. when a shark chomped on her foot, according to Capt. She did not see the shark. The bite marks the fourth in Volusia County this year, Malphurs said. An 11-year-old boy was bit on the foot a week earlier by a shark in New Smyrna Beach.

SANFORD, Michigan – When the massive flooding overtook mid-Michigan earlier this week, Kathy Parsch was the last person to evacuate the village of Sanford. Nearly 11,000 mid-Michigan residents were forced to evacuate their homes due to a massive flooding emergency triggered by dam failures on Tuesday. Now Parsch and her friends are looking for her home in Sanford after it was swept away by the floods. Parsch and her friends found kayaks laying around and got into the water. The Sanford woman was on a mission to recover her mother’s ashes that were left inside the home when she evacuated.

The South Carolina Republican tweeted about an upcoming trip to Iowa, the first-in-the-nation caucus state -- but called it by a nickname for Ohio. "Will be going to Iowa next week and would love your wisdom on local perspectives if you are from the Buckeye state!" Iowa is the Hawkeye State, while Ohio is the Buckeye State. Iowa isn't the only key state that Sanford has in his sights. When asked why he is considering a run, Sanford said there is "no discussion of debt, deficit and government spending in Washington these days."

BAKER COUNTY, Fla. – A 70-year-old Sanford woman is recovering in a hospital after being trapped in her car for three days. Deputies said Gembecki left Sanford on Monday and was driving in Baker County when her car got stuck in about three and a half feet of water on a dirt road. They gave her food and water, and called the Baker County Sheriff's Office. Gembecki told deputies she left her retirement home in Sanford three days ago to do some sightseeing and got lost. Residents can come and go as they please so it wasn't until a Baker County Sheriff's deputy called on Thursday that they knew something was wrong.