All news on the topic: Florida

A decade ago, the state of Florida stripped a teacher of her license for sexual abuse of a 16-year-old boy. Last year, she opened a private school there with ease.

Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime personal assistant claims the vile s-x fiend was able to procure preferential treatment in jail because he secretly paid off one of the guards with cash and gifts, including tickets to Disneyland.

The state of Florida filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman on Monday, alleging the company knowingly released and aggressively marketed ChatGPT to the public while hiding serious risks.

The Bahamian government has granted the U.S. Coast Guard permission to send divers to survey areas that have not yet been searched in the effort to find Lynette Hooker, a missing woman from Michigan, a source with knowledge of the investigation confirmed to CBS News on Thursday.

The woman whose interaction with Florida police went viral after she received a ticket alleging she was driving while holding her phone in her nonexistent right hand has shared her experience with CBS News. She hopes the uncomfortable situation will lead to greater awareness for those with limb differences.

A video has gone viral showing US Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr picking up a pair of writhing snakes with his bare hands, but wildlife officials caution: don’t try this at home.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected Florida’s attempt to initiate a lawsuit against Washington and California for allegedly issuing commercial driver’s licenses to truck drivers who are in the U.S. illegally and lack proficiency in English.

An Arizona prisoner convicted of killing another man by dousing him with gasoline and igniting it was executed on Wednesday. This was the first of three executions scheduled in the U.S. for this week.

A TikTok star was taken into custody in California this week, facing accusations of attempting to hire someone to murder her daughter’s father, boy band singer Jack Avery.

For two years, the American Dream worked wonders for Yuri Gugnin. The Russian tech graduate, who once ran a Moscow outfit called “Karma,” had rebranded himself as George Goognin, a crypto visionary shuttling between New York and Florida.

NextEra Energy announced on Monday that it will acquire Dominion Energy in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $67 billion, merging two significant utilities amid the rising electricity demand driven by AI and data center expansion.

Straus Family Creamery is voluntarily recalling a range of organic ice cream flavors and sizes sold in 17 states due to concerns that there might be metal fragments in the frozen treats, the Food and Drug Administration announced on Friday.

The crew of a U.S. Coast Guard ship intercepted three boats carrying illicit drugs simultaneously in the Caribbean Sea, seizing over three tons of cocaine and thwarting what the agency referred to as a "triple threat," officials announced Thursday.

As President Trump issues threats against Cuba, former Defense Secretary Robert Gates stated that the greatest risk the Communist-ruled island presents to the U.S. is its potential collapse and the resulting migration crisis to the U.S.

Oklahoma carried out the execution of a death row inmate by lethal injection on Thursday morning. The inmate had been found guilty of murdering his ex-girlfriend and her baby nearly two decades ago.

The pilot, praised for saving the lives of 10 passengers aboard a small plane after it crash-landed approximately 50 nautical miles off the east coast of Florida, told CBS News that he lost both engines, all communication, and avionics before the crash.

Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin stated that the department has no immediate plans to close Alligator Alcatraz, even as he recognized that the soft-sided Florida immigration detention facility is susceptible to natural disasters.

Members of the U.S. military who assisted in rescuing 11 individuals aboard a plane that crashed approximately 80 miles off Florida’s east coast on Tuesday discussed the dramatic event and described it as "miraculous" that no significant injuries were reported.

U.S. and Chinese authorities jointly arrested five suspects in a cross-border smuggling and trafficking operation, Beijing announced on Monday, highlighting the cooperation ahead of President Donald Trump’s state visit this week.

The body of a hiker who was reported missing has been discovered by search and rescue teams in Glacier National Park in Montana, park officials announced on Thursday.

An off-duty Secret Service officer was arrested in Miami-Dade County, Florida, at around midnight on Monday and charged with indecent exposure after allegedly masturbating in a hotel hallway, according to a police affidavit.

A woman in Florida was arrested on suspicion of kicking a boy during a youth football game amidst an on-field fight — and then claimed she had no choice because "the kid hit me" first, as shown in video footage of the arrest on Tuesday.

Authorities said Monday that four family members, including an infant, were shot dead at two homes in Florida.