The AP reports a man in Tallahassee, Florida set his house on fire Saturday morning, then shot and killed a deputy and wounded another when they responded to the scene.

As more and more accusers come forward, Bill Cosby has remained silent—officially silent—about the allegation that he drugged and raped several women throughout his career. Last night, before a sold out show at a college campus in Florida, he spoke to Florida Today, saying, "I know people are tired of me not saying anything."

An unidentified gunman opened fire inside Strozier Library on the Florida State University campus in Tallahassee early Thursday morning, injuring three students. The shooter was shot and killed by police.

Here's something depressing: teacher-student racy photo scandals are no longer limited to high school. A 28-year-old fifth grade teacher in Florida was arrested yesterday after allegedly sending sexual photos to a student at her school—so, a child under the age of 12—via the messaging app Kik.

In his strangely poetic mugshot, Gabriel Harris of New Smyrna Beach, Fla., appears to be the saddest man in the world, wracked with a deep and abiding pain we can hardly begin to comprehend. But was he upset at his arrest, or at being dragged away empty-handed from Taco Bell at 3 a.m.? Either seems pretty plausible when you're drunk.

The president of a Florida college that serves more than ten thousand students says he does not believe that his own students should be entitled to report on things that happen at their own school. Why is this man in the field of education?

After giving birth via cesarian section at Boca Raton Regional Hospital in September, Ruby Graupera-Cassimiro fell unconscious from a rare amniotic fluid embolism. Doctors attempted to revive her for three hours, and after 45 minutes without a pulse, her family was called into the operating room to say their goodbyes. Just before doctors planned to declare the mother dead, her heart started beating again.

According to The Palm Beach Post, a 53-year-old Florida woman is facing criminal charges after, authorities allege, she stabbed her boyfriend for threatening her turtle.

Stephen Ramsey, a 45-year-old lothario, was arrested in his Naples, Florida, home after getting wasted and calling 911 several times looking for a date. At one point, with a chuckle, he asked the operator about her feelings on handcuffs before hanging up.

William Wilson acquired his pink Cape Coral, Fla. home in a foreclosure auction Tuesday for $96,000. When he went to the home the next day to inspect the property, he found an unlisted, additional feature: the decaying remains of what neighbors believe to be the home's last tenant, who hasn't been seen in years.

Earlier this week, ninety-year-old activist Arnold Abbott was issued a citation for distributing food to the homeless in violation of strict new rules in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. He warned that the law wouldn't stop him, and yesterday, he was busted for filling bellies yet again.

In Fort Lauderdale, Florida, ninety-year-old volunteer worker Arnold Abbott was arrested this week for preparing and serving a meal to a group of homeless people. He faces a $500 fine and up to 60 days in jail, local news outlet KHON reports.

A mom pretending to be her daughter to get out of a traffic stop had a pretty quick explanation for her unlikely appearance—a rare medical condition that caused her to age rapidly.

The owner of a 12-year-old pug named Chloe says she dropped her dog off at the vet Monday for a follow-up appointment about a scratched cornea. A few hours later, she got a call letting her know Chloe was recovering nicely from having her left eye removed.

Scientists in Florida say they have documented lizard species there evolving in as little as 15 years—so quickly that one may even run for President of the United States.

In Brevard County, Fl., a rash of fiendish hogs have been causing so many problems that there is a threat that they may force officials into canceling trick-or-treating because the hogs are threatening to get into the candy supply.

Two men in Jacksonville, Fl. who had been on the lookout for a massive alligator finally took their reward on Thursday when they were able to get their hands on a 765-pound, 13-foot-4-inch "monster" alligator. They promptly named him Lumpy.

You'd be hard pressed to find a more comic illustration of the out-of-control state of American law enforcement than the case of Shaquielle Olmeda, an 18-year-old Floridian who was arrested this week for snatching a pack of cigarettes from a man on the street.

Clearwater, FL police say 33-year-old Melissa Dawn Sellers was taken into custody this week after she went a little overboard and called her roommate some names she regretted the next morning. Just kidding, she lit him on fire!

Here you will find an argument that the city of Miami, which is slowly being slowly eaten by the sea, should encourage more development, so it will have the tax base necessary to pay for the construction of defenses to save those developments from the rising seas. That's that Florida logic.