Maxwell, a convicted sex offender connected to Jeffrey Epstein, was moved to a less restrictive federal prison this summer.

New body camera video shows a hiding suspect fall through a home’s ceiling and into the waiting arms of Florida SWAT officers ...

The Office of Statewide Prosecution, under Attorney General James Uthmeier, has secured the conviction of Armaund Sims, 44, of Fernandina Beach, on the charge ...

A Gallup poll found 45% of Americans believe there is progress in the war on drugs, up from a record-low 24% a couple of ...

As Florida continues to add to a modern-era record for executions in a year, Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday said he is bringing justice to victims’ families.

One case involved four deputies who ridiculed a woman as she struggled to urinate while handcuffed. Another deputy sprayed an inmate with Lysol.

Two inmates have been executed an hour apart during what's expected to be the single busiest month for the death penalty in the U.S. in nearly 15 years. Florida executed Samuel Lee Smithers on Tuesday ...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Even though Florida has retained a search firm to help land the school’s next football coach, athletic director Scott Stricklin said Monday he will have final say in the ...

Samuel Smithers, 72, was executed Tuesday evening at Florida State Prison in Raiford. File Photo by Paul Buck/EPA Oct. 15 (UPI) --Florida on Tuesday executed a 72-year-old death row inmate for the ...

After courts rejected arguments that he should not be executed because of his age, 72-year-old Samuel Smithers was put to death by lethal injection Tuesday evening at Florida State Prison in the 1996 ...