Fla. charity probe focuses on campaign money
The next phase of an investigation into a veterans charity accused of being a front for a $300 million gambling operation will focus on the hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on lobbying and campaigns donations, authorities said.
Almost 800 people sign up for Fla. ‘python challenge’ hunt
Nearly 800 people have signed up to hunt Burmese pythons on public lands in Florida.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is holding a month-long “Python Challenge.” Officials are offering cash prizes to whoever brings in the longest python and whoever bags the most pythons.
Tyler Perry offers $100K reward in Fla. cold cases
Filmmaker Tyler Perry is offering a $100,000 reward for information in the decade-old case of two men who went missing after separate encounters with a sheriff’s deputy in southwestern Florida.
Swimmer steady in Cuba-Fla. record attempt
Endurance athlete Diana Nyad forged ahead in the Straits of Florida with renewed vigor Sunday in pursuit of a record 103-mile (166-kilometer), unassisted swim in open waters without the aid of a shark cage.
Florida highway patrol defends reopening I-75
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Minutes before two pileups killed 10 people on a highway shrouded in fog and thick smoke from a brush fire, the Florida Highway Patrol had reopened the always busy six-lane interstate after an earlier serious accident.
Bulldogs, Gators meet in showdown of Top 20 powers
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Somehow depth always seems to be a concern for Mississippi State men’s basketball when the Florida Gators pop up on the schedule.
It took only four MSU players in last year’s contest to stop them. The Bulldogs got every one of its points from starters Dee Bost, Renardo Sidney, Kodi Augustus and Ravern Johnson in route to an 71-64 upset victory in a nationally-televised atmosphere at Humphrey Coliseum.
Many indifferent as Noriega returns to Panama cell
PANAMA CITY, Panama — Manuel Noriega is back in his Panamanian homeland after nearly 22 years, sitting in a prison cell in a country he ruled as a personal fiefdom until U.S. troops invaded and hauled him off to a Florida jail.