Seems like foolproof plan: start filling out a job application at the gas-station counter, pretend to be engrossed in the paperwork, and when the clerk walks away, grab the money you've spotted in an easily accessible drawer. Simple crime. Don't even need a squirt gun to pull off that trick.

A fight between a father and son in the parking lot of an Orlando Dave and Buster's ended with the father in critical condition and the son in jail. The cause of the fight? A mid-dinner revelation that the father had been having an affair with a woman who, reportedly, was sending him texts throughout the meal.

Golden Corral cook Brandon Huber actually likes his job at the national buffet chain's Port Orange, Florida, location.

A Bulgarian grad student and his American husband have become the first gay couple granted immigration benefits after the Supreme Court struck down the Defense of Marriage Act last week. Unfortunately, Traian Popov and Julian Marsh live in Florida, which continues to not recognize their union.

A belligerent US Airways passenger had to be escorted off the plane by sheriff's deputies after she responded with hostility to a flight attendant's repeated requests to stop talking on her phone.

When entomologist and bee removal expert Jonathan Simkins was alerted to the presence of a larger-than-average yellow jacket wasp nest on privately-owned hunting ground in Central Florida, he expected to have his work cut out for him.

A Florida teen foiled his own attempt to steal a car at gunpoint when he realized he didn't know how to drive a vehicle with standard transmission.

A Florida dad decided to give his son a 13th birthday to remember, so he rented out all of Jacksonville's historic Sun-Ray Cinema and told Jonah to invite some friends to play video games on a really big screen.

A Florida man's first date with a woman he met at a Daytona Beach convenience store ended with the man naked, bloodied, and cashless in an empty cow field.

The 84-year-old line cutter who was recently rewarded for jumping the queue at Publix with the largest single jackpot in American lottery history ($370.8 million), may have bought dinner for a restaurant full of strangers over the weekend. She also may have continued hoarding the millions all to herself, not givin' anyone shit. An employee of the Buddy Freddy's restaurant in Plant City, FL told the Tampa Bay Times that a woman who "sure looked like" Gloria MacKenzie paid for dinner for 180 people on Sunday. That woman told the employee that she sure wasn't Gloria MacKenzie; just some other mysterious 84-year-old millionaire from central Florida buying everyone dinner for no reason.

The Dunkin' Donuts employee who patiently endured the racist tirade of a singularly bad customer will be recognized for his superhuman grace under fire.

The only thing we know for sure about this story is that, on Saturday night, a sheriff's deputy from Monroe County in Florida removed a Doritos bag from a chip-loving deer's head.

Mother-of-two Mindy Crandell was standing in line at a Publix supermarket in Zephyrhills, Florida, waiting to buy a Powerball ticket in the hopes of claiming her share of a historic $590.5 million payday, when 84-year-old Gloria C. Mackenzie suddenly cut in front of her.

Pay attention, beauty-loving Americans: the jack-booted thugs of Big Government are coming to take away your right to burn people's skin with a laser without any medical training whatsoever.

Police in Florida arrested a man they say killed three coworkers who made fun of him for being a poor shot.

Two Florida women—childhood friends, recently reunited—were arrested Wednesday for attempting to shoplift swimsuits. One of them, the Ocala Star-Banner reports, was eating beef jerky. The women told cops they were attempting to cross an item off their bucket list. (Presumably stealing, or maybe just "getting swimsuits for free somehow," or maybe eating beef jerky in Walmart in which case the shoplifting was really not warranted.)

It took Tampa jurors only two hours to return a not guilty verdict in the two-day murder trial of a retired Army lieutenant colonel who shot and killed his wife's lover.

Police in Miami say they had no choice but to forcefully restrain a 14-year-old boy who was playing on the beach with his friends because he was giving them "dehumanizing stares."

A Papa John's employee was unwittingly recorded making extremely racist remarks about the customer he had just delivered a pizza to after he accidentally butt-dialed the customer and left a message in his voicemail box.

Law enforcement officials in Florida believe they know who was behind the May 5th shooting death of a Lauderhill man — because the mastermind accidentally butt-dialed 911 and practically confessed to the crime.