The Bradenton Herald

Manatee County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Dave Bristow said the department was alerted to the alligator around 2:30 a.m. Friday.

A Florida high-school student who didn’t wear a bra one day this week says school administrators told her to cover her nipples because they were distracting her classmates.

Authorities say a grenade launcher, loaded with a live grenade, was left with other donated items at a Florida Goodwill store.

Florida wildlife officials are investigating a video that appears to show an MTV reality star shooting a hammerhead shark off the side of a boat.

Manatee County sheriff’s investigators interviewed 28-year-old Melissa Deloach about the child her father was accused of raping and she admitted she watched and participated in the assault.

The body found in a freezer earlier this month has been positively identified as Janiya Thomas, an 11-year-old Florida girl who had been missing for more than a year.

The body of an 11-year-old girl who had apparently been missing for more than a year – though authorities say no one reported her disappearance or questioned her whereabouts – was found in a freezer that her mother left at the home of some family members, police said Monday.

A woman who was convicted of having sex on a Florida beach will not spend any more time in jail.

Police say a sleeping couple and their unborn child are dead after a sport utility vehicle slammed into their home in Florida.