Seven marines and four soldiers from Eglin Air Force Base are feared dead after a helicopter taking part in a training exercise crashed over the water Tuesday night off the Florida Panhandle.

According to a report published by the Miami Herald on Sunday, officials at Florida's environmental protection agency have been banned from using the terms "climate change" and "global warming" since Republican Governor Rick Scott took office in 2011.

If you haven't yet lost the will to live, what are you waiting for? Scared? Afraid of ending up in Hell? Afraid everyone in Hell will find out you're a big baby? In any event, heaven exists here on Earth: It's a live streaming feed of poolside bros at a Holiday Inn.

A Florida man who confessed to shooting and killing his neighbor after an alleged struggle brought the dead man's body to his lawyer's office in his pickup truck Wednesday. According to the Fort Myers News-Press, the man "didn't know who else to trust."

Miami Gardens Police Chief Stephen Johnson was arrested—and immediately fired—on Friday for soliciting a prostitute in Dania Beach, NBC Miami reports. He had called the number on an ad placed by authorities.

When 19-year-old Juanye Jones visited a Daytona Beach hospital Wednesday night, his chief concern was his nagging headache. Doctors ended up finding something a bit more serious, however: a fragmented bullet lodged in his head.

Today's sign that The End Is Near: A Florida man makes vape liquid out of (something he claims is) his friend's semen, then inhales it and blows forth a mighty jizz cloud. This herald of the apocalypse, ID'd only as "Brad," claims he's "the first man ever to vape semen." He was reportedly paid $68 for the seminal act. (Why not make it $69? ;) )

A Broward County, Fla., sheriff's deputy is on restricted duty after an attorney caught him on video Monday morning dragging a mentally ill woman down a courthouse hallway by the shackles around her legs.

Here's a modern fable about Florida: There once was a young man from Maine, who traveled to Tallahassee to "party with the Rainbow People in the national forest." While there, he attempted to pay his $10 tab at a sports bar with a rock. And that was the most sane and reasonable thing he did all night.

A K9 cop in Florida was stripped of his badge this week after biting an employee in a Dunkin' Donuts parking lot, the New York Daily News reports.

Sure, when it's your time to split you could die of a heart attack or stroke like everyone else—or you could go down swinging with a little chin music from the World's Greatest Detective, like Stephen Merrill did earlier this month.

Free flight enthusiast and "serial stowaway" Marilyn Hartman has reached a new peak of sneakiness: She was arrested by police Monday on Amelia Island, Fla. after talking her way into a villa at the Omni Amelia Island Plantation Resort. She was busted after the room's actual guests tried to check in.

Whoa there: After 18 hours of labor, a Florida woman reeled in this 14.1-pound whopper last week, one of the state's largest on record. Whatta catch!

Hundreds of manatees, the Andrew W.K.s of the sea, turned up at a Florida hot spring this week in such great numbers that the water had to be closed to humans for more than a day while they got their mellow, listless sea cow party on.

Lonely child-killer George Zimmerman will walk free again. On Friday, prosecutors in Florida dropped aggravated assault charges against Zimmerman after his ex-girlfriend recanted her story and reportedly stopped cooperating with authorities.

Jasmine Tridevil, the woman who became infamous last year for claiming to have a surgically implanted third breast—sadly, it turned out to be an expensive prosthesis—has had a bit of a rough start to 2015. TMZ reports she was booked in Tampa early Monday morning for a DUI, and is currently sitting in jail on $500 bail.

Samela and Pedro Hernandez pleaded guilty this week to illegally practicing medicine out of their South Florida home without licenses. The duo were providing "touch up" butt injections to patients, mostly women, who have undergone posterior enhancement surgery overseas.

A 68-year-old man in North Miami Beach, Florida roasted to death on Sunday after getting into a sauna at his condominium and not making it out. His family went to check on him after a few hours, and found his body had roasted to look like "jerky."

Linda Klem of Kids Stop and Play Daycare in Holiday, Fla. has been charged by police with child abuse after she was caught on security camera kicking a sleeping 15-month-old.

According to NBC, authorities have shut down a mall in Melbourne, Florida after a gunman opened fire inside, injuring at least two people. Police say the shooter is "contained" and they currently have control of the situation.