Florida news headlines

Police in Florida have released reconstructed photos of an unidentified woman whose remains were found in suitcases along the Intracoastal Waterway in Delray Beach earlier this month.

A call about a suspicious item floating in an inland Florida waterway has turned into a police investigation involving human remains.

There's no shortage of shark-related news in in Australia - but despite our fearful fascination with these majestic beasts, the chances of one of those needle-like teeth ever puncturing your skin are staggeringly low.

A teenager who was mauled by a shark has revealed how her brother saved her life by punching the creature.

A group of hunters captured the longest burmese python ever documented in Florida, measuring 19 feet long.

The sudden marine heat wave has surprised scientists for a number of reasons, with one warning it's "another cut in a death by a thousand cuts".

A prisoner suspected of stabbing Larry Nassar said the disgraced former sports doctor provoked the attack by making a lewd comment while watching a Wimbledon tennis match on TV.

Investigators probing disgraced former sports doctor Larry Nassar’s stabbing on Sunday at a federal penitentiary in Florida are lacking a key piece of evidence: video of the assault.

US man Donald Santini was wanted for the murder of Cynthia Wood.

Susan Lorincz complained that Ajike Owens' children had been making too much noise and were annoying her the day of the shooting.

When Donald Trump faces court early tomorrow morning, he will be making history.

A man is accused of breaking into a Florida theme park, jumping into an alligator enclosure and filming a video for social media – a dangerous stunt that authorities say led to his arrest.

Donald Trump allegedly kept classified documents at various places in his Mar-a-Lago resort, including a public ballroom, bathroom and a bedroom.

A Florida mother was fatally shot through a door outside a neighbour's home after what officials characterised on Monday as a 2 1/2-year feud over playing children.

The US Coast Guard has suspended its search for a 35-year-old man who went overboard from a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean this week, the military branch said.

A 23-year-old American man has lost his arm after he was attacked by an alligator near a pond.

The entertainment giant says thousands of jobs will be lost in the US state unless Ron DeSantis drops his 'anti business' policies.

An accused MS-13 gang member has been arrested in Holiday, Florida, and charged in what the sheriff described as a "demonic" murder of an Uber Eats delivery driver.

A missing two-year-old boy who was found dead in an alligator's mouth was drowned by his father, Florida Police Say.

Three men were given life sentences on Thursday for the 2018 killing of star rapper XXXTentacion, who was shot outside a South Florida motorcycle shop while being robbed of $50,000.

The deadly incident was the second in the area since late last year.

The missing Florida toddler who was found dead in the mouth of an alligator last week was put in the lake by his father, who is also accused of killing the child's mother, police say.

New York City has bolstered security and warned potential agitators it is "not a playground for your misplaced anger".

Taylen was found just a few kilometres from the apartment where his mother was stabbed to death.

Two Cuban migrants used a motorised hang glider to fly the approximately 145 kilometres from the communist island, leaving authorities shocked.

It is not possible to eradicate the biggest and potentially most threatening invasive species in America, a sobering study from the US government has found.

Rock star was attacked while smoking a cigarette outside a Four Seasons hotel

A gargantuan mass of seaweed that formed in the Atlantic Ocean is headed for the shores of Florida and other coastlines throughout the Gulf of Mexico, threatening to dump smelly and potentially dangerous heaps across beaches and put a big damper on tourist season.

Police say the resident opened his front door after hearing a noise that he thought was someone looking for his son when the alligator attacked him.

The infection possibly resulted from "sinus rinse practices utilising tap water".

Bert Krebs has been surfing for more than 30 years, he said thinking about the possibility of being bitten by a shark in his life kept him calm when it actually happened this year.

Spectrum News 13 in Orlando identified reporter 24-year-old Dylan Lyons, as the journalist among the three killed in the incident, while one of the station's photographers was "critically injured".

A central Florida television journalist and a little girl were fatally shot Wednesday afternoon near the scene of a fatal shooting from earlier in the day, US authorities said.

An 85-year-old woman walking her dog was killed on Monday when an alligator pulled her into a nearby retention pond in southeast Florida, according to wildlife officials.

The shattered remains of the expensive piece were photographed after the incident, which occurred during "cocktail hour".

As a family searched for their missing son who was swept out into the big blue, angry ocean, they spotted something in the distance that gave them pause.

An avid 12-year-old American angler has captured a great white shark off the coast of South Florida.

The bizarre yet fascinating menagerie of animals detected in carry-on baggage at US airports carries on into 2023.

A police officer in Tampa, Florida, who was videotaped dragging a handcuffed woman into jail has been fired, authorities said.

A man already imprisoned in Florida for another killing has pleaded guilty today to the long-unsolved 1991 slaying of a woman he met at a bar.

It may seem unlikely but this is the third lizard-triggered outage in the city this year.

A Florida man who was washing his hands in a pond has been bitten by an alligator.

The US men were teens when they were accused of a younger boy's murder.

The US Department of Justice has asked a judge to hold Donald Trump's office in contempt, over their purported failure to return all sensitive documents in the former president's possession.

Christian Kath, 42, and his wife Misty, 43, were flying with their teenage daughter Lily when their plane crashed into the Gulf of Mexico.

A historic artefact lay below a popular beach for centuries, impervious to cars that drove daily or sand castles built by generations of tourists.

The Justice Department claimed the review had delayed its criminal investigation.

The operator of an US amusement park ride from which a Missouri teenager fell to his death should pay a $375,000 fine and can never hold a ride permit in Florida again, state officials said.

The final judgment awards $3 million ($4.4 million) to Petito's mother, Nichole Schmidt, as the administrator of Petito's estate.

The Rupert Murdoch controlled paper was scathing in its coverage about the former US president.