A teen dressed in a white lab coat allegedly convinced employees at a Florida hospital that he was a doctor for a full month before a suspicious patient alerted authorities.

A teenager will be honored by Ft. Lauderdale police for saving the life of the officer who had just arrested him.

Poor ol' George Zimmerman. According to attorney Don West, the killer of Trayvon Martin just can't catch a break. This weekend, West told reporters that his client "hasn't been very lucky with the ladies" after Zimmerman was arrested for domestic violence (again) on Friday.

A 5-year-old Florida girl is dead after her father threw her off a bridge and into Tampa Bay, 62 feet below, St. Petersburg police say.

A man was arrested at a Hudson, Fla., Kmart Monday while wearing a shirt that said "WHO NEEDS DRUGS? No, seriously, I have drugs." Pasco County deputies allege that—surprise!—he had drugs.

A Florida dad taught parents in the state last week that it's fine to spank your kids, as long as you call the cops to oversee it.

Also they pooped in there.

When officials came to arrest 28-year-old Floridian Casey Molter for the thorough dismantling he'd just given his girlfriend's '97 Altima, he told them he'd done it because she was a "spiritual person" who could "tell a person about their dreams." Her latest vision, he added, was a little heavy on the dead grandma dildo sex.

Florida's Duval, Clay and Baker counties have ended the practice of courthouse weddings to avoid performing ceremonies for gay couples, the Florida Times-Union reports.

The United States Census Bureau announced today that the State of New York, which had been the nation's third most populous state, has now slipped to fourth place, behind Florida. In the 12 months ending July 1, 2014, the Sunshine State gained 293,000 new inhabitants, while New York added a meager 51,000.

On Sunday, paramedics took seven football fans to the hospital after lightning struck a parking lot outside of Raymond James Stadium in Tampa.

Lots of cities have songs about them. Well, now Jacksonville does too, and it's fucking awesome.

Two men walked into a Lake Wales, Fla. Walmart store last week and loaded up a cart with hundreds of dollars worth of toys, then one of them took off with the goods while the other faked a heart attack to create a diversion. They would have gotten away with the heist, too, if the store had been miraculously devoid of security cameras.

After stealing $10,000 from her grandmother's sock drawer, an 11-year-old Arkansas girl reportedly gave a cab driver $1,300 to drive her to a 16-year-old crush who lived over 800 miles away.

Nelson and Joyce Coniglio have come out victorious in a harassment suit against Bank of America. They were awarded more than $1 million this week after the bank made 700 automated calls across four years.

Anthony Smith, 21, was arrested by Martin County, Fla. police last month after sheriff's deputies found him outside his home, naked and masturbating. He was just listening to his mother, apparently: Smith told police that she doesn't allow him to watch porn inside.

A Keystone Heights, Fla. couple turned themselves in to Clay County police earlier this week after allegedly forging documents to live in their $1.4 million, 7,000-square foot "home." The couple's ruse was exposed when the home's new, actual owners discovered people were already living in their house.

ORLANDO—(BTC @ $355.27) The hotel is a tomb of hopeful thinking. Built in the 1980s, the single tower of the Wyndham Lake Buena Vista Hotel at Disney World juts up from the Orlando ground as if tectonic forces pushed skyward a sheet of pure, brown stucco. A soundtrack of Mickey Mouse anthems plays around the clock. The carpets are damp. And for a weekend in October, a group of men and women who mean to change the future of civilization were staying there.

On Tuesday, a Florida man shot himself dead after a gun he was using to threaten his wife's dog accidentally fired in his face, say police.

A 17-year-old Florida girl was arrested Friday for human trafficking after the Venice police department began investigating a high school prostitution ring organized on Facebook. The girl arranged at least one act of prostitution that involved a 15-year-old girl and a 21-year-old man, according to cops.