The Latest Breaking News from Fla

TAMPA, Fla. — Acting on a proposal from Gov. Ron DeSantis, Florida lawmakers filed legislation Wednesday to allow the death penalty for adults convicted of sexual battery of children younger than 12.

ORLANDO, Fla. — A trip to Bay Hill Club & Lodge inevitably becomes a walk down memory lane for Arnie’s Army.

TAMPA, Fla. — The Penguins are coming into Amalie Arena on Thursday night to fight for their playoff lives. With 22 games left in their season, Pittsburgh is clinging to the second wild card in the Eastern Conference, with five teams nipping furiously at their heels to knock them out.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Rory McIlroy is one of the biggest hitters on the PGA Tour.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Beyond golf’s current Big Three of Jon Rahm, Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy, plenty of golfers in the 120-player field have shown the form in 2023 or in past visits to Bay Hill to contend at this week’s Arnold Palmer Invitational.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Rapper Kodak Black will spend 30 days at a South Florida inpatient drug rehab facility, a Broward County judge decided Tuesday, days after she signed a warrant for his arrest.

FORT MYERS, Fla. — In spring training, we are told to focus less on results and more on context. Pitchers are experimenting. Hitters are finding their timing. The in-game statistics often can be meaningless.

BRADENTON, Fla. — Welcome to spring training, where the rules are made up and the games do not matter.

ORLANDO, Fla. — A Florida state representative wants to expand last year’s controversial Parental Rights in Education law to the eighth grade, setting up another culture war clash over what critics labeled “don’t say gay.”

ORLANDO, Fla. — A newly released affidavit in the case against Keith Moses, the alleged killer of three people in Pine Hills last week, offers a timeline of the Feb. 22 shootings, which happened within feet of each other over several hours.

FORT MYERS, Fla. — LaTroy Hawkins loves the Twins bullpen.