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A jury returned a split verdict on Thursday in a Florida lawsuit alleging hot McDonald’s chicken nuggets left a 4-year-old girl “disfigured and scarred,” lawyers for the victim’s family said.

In comments Wednesday during a call with investors, Disney CEO Bob Iger defended his company as Florida attempts to wrest control of powers granted to a special taxing district overseeing Disney World’s zoning decisions.

More than 74 million visitors came to the Orlando area in 2022, a benchmark just short of pre-pandemic levels, tourism officials said Thursday.

A 13-year-old exchanged gunfire with police during a chase through a residential neighborhood in Florida, wounding one officer and ending up in the hospital after being shot himself, officials said.

The Florida judge who gained a national profile while presiding over the Parkland school shooting trial announced Wednesday that she is resigning on June 30 to pursue unspecified career opportunities.

A detective who has been with a South Florida sheriff’s agency for nearly 21 years is accused of falsifying information in multiple cases and of threatening one victim with deportation.

Disney World’s governing district, previously controlled by Disney supporters, reached an agreement in February to prohibit a long list of businesses from ever being operated on its property.

A man convicted of killing and sexually assaulting a teenage girl and another woman in separate South Florida attacks in 1984 is set to be executed next month under a death warrant signed Tuesday by Gov. Ron DeSantis.

A Florida man who was driving his Tesla at least 116 mph before crashing into a house and killing two people in 2021 has been sentenced to 27 years in prison.

Teachers and other government employees will have to write monthly checks if they want to stay in their union after Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill Tuesday banning automatic dues deductions from public employees’ paychecks.