Florida set to execute man for killing wife, 2 kids in new state death sentence record for 1 year

Searching for pennies: With the cut in federal funding public broadcasters are looking to cope

Florida's Supreme Court has upheld the state's current congressional redistricting map, rejecting a challenge over the elimination of a majority-Black district that was pushed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Another powerful group has petitioned to join a federal lawsuit to shut down the Everglades migrant detention camp known as “Alligator Alcatraz,” given that the state has given no end date, and no assurances that this will not become a permanent facility.

Backstreet Boys singer Brian Littrell says a local Florida sheriff’s office isn’t doing enough to protect his multimillion dollar beachfront property from trespassers and is asking a judge for an order commanding deputies to do so.

Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday appointed state Sen. Blaise Ingoglia as Florida’s new chief financial officer, elevating the conservative lawmaker to a powerful cabinet post that oversees state finances, insurance regulation and emergency response operations.

The Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida is seeking to join a federal lawsuit aimed at halting the construction and operation of a new immigration detention facility in the Everglades, which tribal members consider their sacred ancestral homelands.

A man convicted of fatally shooting two people outside a Florida bar in 1993 as part of an attempted revenge killing has been executed.

Just days after lawmakers toured Alligator Alcatraz for the first time, Local 10 News is working to uncover who exactly is being detained at the facility.

Another former Republican lawmaker and ally of Gov. Ron DeSantis is officially taking the helm of one of Florida’s public universities.

Florida Sen. Blaise Ingoglia wore a University of Florida golf polo with an alligator icon to a guided tour of Alligator Alcatraz on Saturday in Collier County.

Democratic lawmakers are condemning Florida’s new Everglades immigration detention center after making a state-arranged visit.

A group of Florida lawmakers arrived at the Alligator Alcatraz on Saturday to tour the detention center holding undocumented migrants.

President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency has spawned state-level DOGE initiatives as Republican governors and lawmakers aim to show that they're in step.

Local 10 News heard from Florida lawmakers Friday who are suing the state for access to the “Alligator Alcatraz” migrant detention facility, just hours before they join fellow Democrats and Republicans on a tour of the controversial center.

Worms in the food.

The Supreme Court has refused to allow Florida to enforce an immigration law making it a crime for people who are living in the U.S. illegally to enter the state.

South Miami Mayor Javier Fernández said he was disappointed that Key West officials had decided to allow an immigration law enforcement partnership.

Newly-released aerial photos taken over the remote airport site of the state-built migrant detention facility “Alligator Alcatraz” led environmental groups to question whether it contradicted officials’ claims that no new construction would be done at the site.

Commissioners in Key West will meet this week to decide whether to honor an agreement with U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

As the first wave of migrant detainees prepares to arrive, Florida officials are finalizing construction on what critics are now calling “Alligator Alcatraz.”

The first group of immigrants has arrived at a new detention center deep in the Florida Everglades that officials have dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz.”.

The first group of immigrants are set to arrive at a new detention center deep in the Florida Everglades that officials have dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz.”.

When all eyes were on Florida Governor Ron DeSantis touring the so-called “Alligator Alcatraz” facility, a letter was officially stamped back in Tallahassee.

Florida law enforcement agencies' cooperation with federal immigration officials is causing concerns among family members and immigrants' rights advocates that people will disappear into county jail systems.

Supporters and protesters gathered Tuesday outside Florida’s newest migrant detention center — a controversial facility environmentalists have dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” — as President Donald Trump visited the site to highlight his deportation plans.

Following the latest Legislative session in Florida, state lawmakers and Gov. Ron DeSantis have approved dozens of new laws.

President Donald Trump toured an isolated new immigration detention surrounded by alligator-filled swamps in Florida’s Everglades.

President Donald Trump is planning to visit a new immigration detention facility in the Florida Everglades on Tuesday.

Possible changes to President Donald Trump’s big bill of tax breaks and spending cuts are being considered, though most of the amendments are expected to fail.

The Federal Aviation Administration has issued what it calls a “VIP Movement Notification” for Tuesday in Ochopee, and we know the notification is specific to Air Force One.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed two bills into law last week meant to help c

Environmental activists rallied Saturday near the Dade-Collier airport to protest construction of a state-run immigration detention center in the heart of the Everglades, a project critics have dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz.”

More than four years after a Florida condominium collapse killed 98 people, federal investigators have yet to make a final determination of the cause.

Environmental groups filed a federal lawsuit Friday to block a migrant detention center being built on an airstrip in the heart of the Florida Everglades.

Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration is racing ahead with construction of a makeshift immigration detention facility at an airstrip in the Everglades over the opposition of Native American leaders who consider the area their sacred ancestral homelands.

Plans for a beaver nugget stop off Interstate 75 are one step closer, after a construction company has won a bid to help expand the interstate in Ocala.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis held a press conference Thursday morning in Boca Raton.

Florida’s familiar logistics of temporary mass housing is well underway at an old air strip in the Florida Everglades, with mass migrant detention the goal.

Florida officials are pursuing plans to build a second detention center to house immigrants, as part of the state’s aggressive push to support the federal government’s crackdown on illegal immigration.

The new immigration detention center at an isolated airstrip in the Florida Everglades that President Donald Trump visited was heralded by Republicans as a potential model for other states to aggressively ramp up detention and deportation efforts.

Alan Wilson, the four-term Republican attorney general of South Carolina, kicked off his bid for the state’s first open gubernatorial race in 16 years.

President Donald Trump and his political operation are working to unseat their first Republican incumbent: Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie, who has drawn Trump’s wrath by saying the president lacked the authority to attack Iran’s nuclear sites without congressional approval.

Gov. Ron DeSantis was scheduled to hold a news conference in Clearwater Monday morning.

A 19-year-old from South Florida is among the Americans who landed in Florida Friday morning on a state-chartered plane from Israel as it fights with Iran.

Florida’s attorney general on Tuesday was found to be in civil contempt of a federal judge’s order over a new state law making it a misdemeanor for people in the U.S. illegally to enter the state.

On the 105th day of what was supposed to be a 60-day legislative session, Florida lawmakers passed a bill to allow charter schools to “co-locate” inside traditional public schools.

On the 105th day of what was supposed to be a 60-day session, Florida lawmakers gave final approval to a leaner state budget totaling $115.1 billion.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids and President Donald Trump’s U.S. military deployment to Los Angeles riots prompted protests on Saturday in South Florida and around the nation.

Local 10 News This Week In South Florida's Glenna Milberg interviews Florida Rep. Kevin Chambliss, a Democrat who represents District 117; Florida Rep. Alex Rizo, a Republican who represents District 112; South Miami Mayor Javier Fernández; and U.S. Rep. Carlos Giménez.

Local 10 News This Week In South Florida’s Glenna Milberg interviews South Miami Mayor Javier Fernández.

Local 10 News This Week In South Florida’s Glenna Milberg interviews Florida Rep. Kevin Chambliss, a Democrat who represents District 117; and Florida Rep. Alex Rizo, a Republican who represents District 112.

Local 10 News This Week In South Florida's Glenna Milberg interviews Florida Rep. Kevin Chambliss, a Democrat who represents District 117; Florida Rep. Alex Rizo, a Republican who represents District 112; South Miami Mayor Javier Fernández; and U.S. Rep. Carlos Giménez.

Demonstrators came out in cities across the U.S. to protest President Donald Trump.

Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony lashed out at reporters, including those from Local 10 News, asking him about recent comments about Immigration and Customs Enforcement during a public safety forum in Lauderhill on Thursday.

Gov. Ron DeSantis recently appointed Miami-based Attorney Eliot Pedrosa to the 11th Circuit Judicial Nominating Commission.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has called President Donald Trump's military intervention in Los Angeles an assault on democracy.

Selling driver’s license appointments is now an illegal act in Broward County, the Broward Tax Collector’s Office announced Wednesday in a news release.

The Florida attorney general used X on Tuesday to say that his office was monitoring local law enforcement agencies to ensure “maximum” immigration law enforcement.

The Broward County sheriff and the Florida attorney general exchanged letters on Monday about immigration law enforcement.

Florida’s child welfare agency has sent a letter to a newspaper telling it to “cease and desist” its reporting on foster families for a story about a nonprofit associated with Gov. Ron DeSantis’ wife.

The quick end to a Texas law that granted in-state public university tuition prices to students who lack legal resident status stunned immigrant advocates and state Democrats, who call it a cruel punishment for hardworking students that will ultimately hurt the state’s economy.

Gov. Ron DeSantis signed new legislation Thursday aimed at strengthening health and safety protections for Florida’s firefighters.

President Donald Trump said it might be better to let Ukraine and Russia “fight for a while” before pulling them apart and pursuing peace.

A former Republican congressman and vocal critic of Donald Trump says he wants to become governor in the president’s adopted home state of Florida and is running as a Democrat.

Gov. Ron DeSantis is scheduled to speak Wednesday at the Florida Education Commissioner’s Summit, an event set to take place at Miami-Dade College’s Wolfson Campus.

Longtime academic Santa Ono has been rejected for the University of Florida presidency by the state university system board.

A federal judge has barred state officials from enforcing a Florida law that would ban social media accounts for young children, while a legal challenge against the law plays out.

Texas lawmakers have approved banning gummies, drinks and vapes infused with THC, the compound that gives marijuana its psychoactive properties.

University boards appointed by the Texas governor soon could have new powers to control the curriculum required of students and eliminate degree programs.

Gov. Ron DeSantis recently vetoed Florida House Bill 6017, also state Senate Bill 734, which would have repealed a provision of Florida’s Wrongful Death Act, a law that limits medical negligence claims.

Sunday is the first day of this year’s hurricane season, and the first since the administrations of President Donald Trump and Gov. Ron DeSantis changed the government’s response.

John Thrasher, a former Florida House speaker and state senator who served as Florida State University president and co-founded The Southern Group lobbying firm, died Friday in Orlando. He was 81.

There was a protest Thursday outside of the federal courthouse in Miami, as the Florida attorney general faced contempt of court accusations related to a new state law impacting undocumented adults.

Two animal cruelty bills, meant to protect animals across the state of Florida, were signed by Governor Ron DeSantis on Wednesday.

More than half of U.S. states now have laws banning or regulating cellphones in schools, with more likely to follow.

A criminal investigation is now underway into the Hope Florida Foundation. The nonprofit foundation is connected to a program created by First Lady Casey DeSantis.

The agency responsible for immigration enforcement has aggressively revived and expanded a decades-old program that delegates immigration enforcement powers to state and local law enforcement agencies.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the "Boater Freedom Act“ into law during a news conference in Panama City Beach on Monday.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has been calling out Broward County for what he calls a massive increase in spending, but like always, there is context to that.

Gov. Ron DeSantis’s administration asked a judge Friday to dismiss a lawsuit by the city of South Miami challenging having to deputize police officers to enforce immigration law.

The board of Florida’s only public historically Black university has chosen a lobbyist with ties to Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis to be the school’s next president, alarming students, faculty and alumni who are outraged by the governor’s efforts to restrict the teaching of African American history and ban public colleges from using taxpayer money on diversity programs.

Florida has become the second state to ban fluoride in public drinking water.

A suspected serial killer once scrutinized for a possible link to the O.J. Simpson case that riveted the nation in the 1990s has been executed for a Florida murder.

The show will go on for drag queens in South Florida while Gov. Ron DeSantis continues his fight in court to be able to implement his ban on drag shows.

An injunction barring the enforcement of Florida’s drag-show ban will remain in effect after a federal appeals court ruled that the law is likely unconstitutional.

Florida is continuing its rapid pace of executions this year, with one convicted killer set to die this week and another on June 10 who would be the sixth person put to death by the state in 2025.

Gov Ron DeSantis announced Monday Florida Highway Patrol troopers will be enforcing immigration law just like federal agents.

President Donald Trump’s administration changed the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s acting administrator tasked with disaster response.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is expected to sign a statewide ban on water fluoridation into law after holding a press conference in Miami on Tuesday.

Utah dentists say they’re bracing for an increase in tooth decay among the state’s most vulnerable people.

Florida voters will now face new hurdles when trying to put proposed laws on the ballot through citizen-led petition drives.

A new reverse osmosis water treatment facility is now open in the Lower Keys, providing a backup supply of drinking water during emergencies and peak demand periods.

Gov. Ron DeSantis is holding a press conference in Key West on Monday morning.

Florida lawmakers approved an expansion Friday on the ban on cell phones for elementary and middle school students, and are testing it in high schools.

The Florida Legislature passed the bill dubbed Lucy’s Law late Friday night.

Florida lawmakers have given final approval to creating new hurdles for getting citizen-driven initiatives on the ballot before voters.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is holding a news conference in Miramar on Thursday morning.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials are in Florida with Gov. Ron DeSantis to praise a week long operation that netted 1,120 arrests of people they say were in the country illegally.

An Army combat veteran whose Gulf War experience triggered severe mental problems has been executed in Florida for the shotgun slayings of his girlfriend and her three young children.