Florida

A week after more than 2 feet of rain fell on parts of Florida’s Space Coast, the water is still working its way north through the St. Johns River, keeping homes near Cocoa on the edge of major flooding and pushing the river toward flood stage in Seminole and Volusia counties.

FRUITLAND PARK, Fla. – A 31-year-old Amazon delivery driver died of carbon monoxide poisoning while sorting packages inside her delivery van in Fruitland Park, according to a Lake County medical examiner’s report. Jaylene Vargas-Gonzalez died Aug. 10. A newly released investigative report from the Lake County Sheriff’s Office...

Florida inspectors temporarily shut 15 restaurants, food trucks and food businesses from Orlando and Ormond Beach to Tampa Bay during the week of Oct. 19 to 25, citing live roaches, rodent droppings, raw sewage and unsafe food storage, according to state records summarized by News 6 ClickOrlando. Nine of the...

Quick-thinking employees at a Golden Corral restaurant in The Villages used rubber tire blocks to trap a drunk driving suspect’s SUV in the parking lot. Brianna Alexandra Denner, 36, of Wildwood, was booked at the Sumter County Detention Center on Friday after the incident at the restaurant located at Buffalo Ridge Plaza in The Villages.

After a sunny, warm weekend, the Sunshine State could soon get a taste of winter . A cold front is expected to send temperatures tumbling across the state, bringing the possibility of frost and even a light freeze in some areas. Temperatures could fall 10 to 15 degrees below historical averages Friday, Nov. 13, and Saturday, Nov. 14, as the cold front moves through Florida, according to AccuWeather meteorologist Nicholas Arman in an email Nov. 9. The coldest temperatures are expected Sunday morn

A trip out of state landed a 79-year-old man in jail after he allegedly left an Alzheimer’s patient home alone in Florida’s Friendliest Hometown without a phone or any supervision. Gene Trout, a resident of the Village of Poinciana, was booked at the Sumter County Detention Center on...

Being in the holiday Spirit has new meaning this year. Spirit Christmas, the holiday-themed shop from spooky season pop-up Spirit Halloween, is now open at 2522 McMullen Booth Road in Clearwater. 2026 marks the Tampa Bay Area debut of the holiday season pop-up from the Spirit team famous for taking...

LEE COUNTY, Fla. — Stunning videos captured Sunday night show a possible meteor streaking across the Gulf Coast sky. According to NASA, the Leonid meteor shower is currently active, though it has not yet reached its peak. NASA said it is possible to spot meteors during this time, as the showers do not produce high hourly counts, but are known for bright, slow-moving fireballs.

This week’s Dirty Dining list has plenty to make you think twice before your next meal out. At Bagel Express in Miami, inspectors counted approximately 144 live flying insects landing on clean dishes, utensils, bagel-making equipment and other surfaces used for food preparation. And this wasn’t the first time....

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The Jacksonville metro average was $3.77 a gallon Monday, Nov. 9, down about 10 cents from a week earlier. AAA’s current statewide average was $3.79. Jacksonville-area gas was about 24 cents cheaper than a month ago, when the metro average was $4.14. Florida’s statewide average was about 22 cents below the national average of $4.01.