Police in Florida say a suspect might have gotten away last week, if it weren't for those meddling cats.

A Christian preschool in Florida expelled a 4-year-old student after his mom complained about school administration in a Facebook post. Although her son had done nothing wrong, she apparently violated a policy against "sowing discord."

Ah, there's nothing on a hot day like an icy cold glass of lemonade sold illegally in a residential area.

What is a good reason to keep a loaded gun on a nightstand near your preteen grandkids and fire indiscriminately at one of them in the dark? According to the United States' legal consensus, being afraid is enough, because the United States is full of irrational, scared, armed citizens, and God bless 'em, huh?

Police have arrested a man for allegedly beating an autistic teen at a house party in Okeechobee, Florida, a brutal incident caught on tape and shared widely on social media.

Bad news: If your cat went missing in Port St. Lucie, Fla. recently, a 12-foot Burmese python probably ate it. Police have since apprehended the 120-pound snake, which was discovered hiding in waist-high brush, a cat's corpse rotting in an empty lot nearby.

A nine-year-old Florida boy, who successfully held off a nine-foot, four-hundred-pound alligator while swimming in a lake, is recovering in the hospital from the run-in, but not without a prize by his bedside: the tooth of the gator who tried to break him.

The day before Julion Evans' funeral was scheduled to happen at Tampa, Florida's New Hope Missionary Baptist Church, Evans' mother reportedly got a phone call from a pastor. Because the deceased was gay, he said, the church would have to cancel the funeral.

A 13-year-old Florida boy has been charged with the murder of Thomas J. Bergstrom, 51. Bergstrom was found stabbed to death at a homeless camp on Saturday near Cape Coral.

Florida teen Jennifer Greene announced her candidacy for Worst Human of 2014 last month when she and a friend set a protected gopher tortoise on fire repeatedly, stomped it to death, and posted the video on Facebook. Now she may have established herself as the frontrunner: The 18-year-old is now facing charges for allegedly being sexually involved with an underage boy.

A Miami Beach cop, fired last year when his random drug test came back positive for cocaine, has been reinstated. He claimed he'd never done coke, and the test result had been caused by a cream he rubbed on his genitals.

According to the BBC, nine-year-old Oceana Irizarry has died from injuries after being hit by a plane while walking on a Florida beach on Sunday. Her dad Ommy, an Army sergeant who was walking with her, died at the scene.

Stop me if you heard this one: George Zimmerman was questioned by police under creepy, peculiar circumstances, but they ultimately let him go. Wait, no, hang on, there's a twist this time.

As new details emerged about an unusual abduction case Dan Markel had worked on before his murder, police on Monday released 911 call logs suggesting the prominent law professor and blogger was still moving after he was shot in his car by an unknown assailant and found by a neighbor.

Health officials in Florida today issued new warnings about high levels of a flesh-eating bacterium in the ocean and other recreational waters in the state. The state says that bacterium, Vibrio vulnificus, causes ulceration and rapid skin decay and is fatal in about 50 percent of people who get it in their bloodstreams.

New details obtained by ABC News make clear that nationally renowned law blogger and Florida State University professor Dan Markel was marked for murder at his Tallahassee home, but they deepen the mystery of who committed the crime and why.

It had been a quiet summer in Tallahassee, Florida's capital. Lawmakers and students from the local universities were mostly out of town. But last week, one of the city's most notable and well-liked citizens was killed with a single shot to the head, and no one yet knows why.

A typical night in Southwest Florida: three butt-ass naked college guys broke into a burger shack looking for raw meat. They stole 60 burgers, three pounds of bacon, three red peppers, and a paddleboard from Doc's Beach House around 3 a.m. The bros (and all their meat) remain at large.

Joseph H. Carl was driving home from a bar in Gainesville, Fla. Tuesday when he rear-ended a car that was stopped at a red light. Drunk and enraged, he got out of his pickup truck and began banging on the windows of the vehicle he'd just hit. If only he'd remembered to put it in park first.

You're looking at the face of a guilty bear. Cute and innocent though it may appear, last night, the villain shown above burglarized a pool deck in Central Florida, in search of the only things thirsty bears ever really want: beer and/or daiquiri mix.