Crime

The interim sheriff is calling for a "forensic audit" of the department following an investigation into that resulted in racketeering charges against Lopez.

Florida may carry out more executions in 2025 than in any other year in recent history. Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed nine death warrants so far. Seven have been carried out.

The "critically missing" youths, ages 9 to 17, are receiving treatment and housing after Operation Dragon Eye, a two-week initiative involving federal, state and local law enforcement and organizations.

The suspended player faces charges of sexual abuse involving a girl who was 14 years old at the time.

Michael Bell, 54, is scheduled to die by lethal injection July 15 for the mistaken-revenge killing of two people outside of Jacksonville bar in 1993.

Brown, who played with Tampa Bay during its 2020-21 Super Bowl year, is accused of grabbing a handgun from a security staffer and firing two shots at a man he had gotten into a fistfight with earlier.

Suggs, who was hired by her alma mater in September, is accused of misusing a credit card issued to her when she was CEO of the Florida Sports Foundation.

A handgun registered to his uncle was found in Wander Franco's vehicle after an altercation, say Dominican prosecutors, who filed the charge Sunday.

Documents that prosecutors presented to the judge alleged that Franco, through his mother, transferred 1 million pesos, or $17,000, to the mother of the teenage girl to consent to the purported abuse.

The Tampa Bay shortstop has been charged with sexually abusing a minor, sexual and commercial exploitation against a minor, and human trafficking.

According to the indictment, on or around March 10, Christopher Davies wrote and delivered a letter to an official at the prison saying he intended to kill the president.

An county judge has denied the travel request for former deputy Eddie Duran, who is charged with manslaughter in the death of Senior Airman Roger Fortson.