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Three men whose graves were found at the original site of one of the nation’s oldest Black churches were members of its congregation in the early 19th century, a team of archaeologists and scientists in Virginia announced Thursday.

A Florida middle school teacher was arrested for allegedly allowing her students to fight in her classroom, authorities said.

Two Florida girls who stole a car and drove 400 miles to meet somebody they’d met online are back at home.

A new bill, supported by the Indiana-based Safe Haven Baby Boxes, would give fire stations and hospitals the option to install the group’s ventilated and climate-controlled boxes, where parents could drop off their babies without interacting with fire or hospital employees.

Florida has ramped up executions under Gov. Ron DeSantis, with a man known as the “ninja killer” set to die Wednesday for the 1989 slayings of a couple visiting the state from New Jersey.

Republican State Rep. Webster Barnaby likened transgender people to “mutants” and “demons” while discussing a bill that seeks to prevent transgender men and women from using bathrooms that don’t line up with their sex assigned at birth.

In 2024, Florida voters could vote to make fishing and hunting constitutional rights. Right now fishing and hunting are not being threatened, but lawmakers supporting the bill say it would help manage wildlife.

A high school along Florida’s Atlantic Coast has removed a graphic novel based on the diary of Anne Frank after a leader of a conservative advocacy group challenged it, claiming it minimized the Holocaust.

Four people including a child are dead after a suspect shot three victims inside a home and then was killed by police after opening fire on officers responding to a domestic violence report early Sunday, police in Florida said.

Divers and snorkelers were “egg-static” Sunday to find Easter eggs doled out by a scuba-diving “Easter bunny” in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.