Smoke from a large wildfire closed a 57-mile stretch of Interstate 75, also known as Alligator Alley, Wednesday night.

Christopher Alexander Delgado, 34, of Apopka, was arrested Tuesday on charges of wire fraud and money laundering, according to a news release from the U.S. Department of Justice. He is the founder, president and CEO of the blockchain firm Goliath Ventures, formerly known as Gen Z Venture Firm, which is headquartered in Orlando.

Authorities say a South Florida sheriff’s deputy shot and killed a man suspected of killing two people at one location and wounding someone at a nearby store before striking the deputy with his SUV and dragging him some distance.

Melvin Trotter, 65, was convicted of strangling and stabbing Virgie Langford at her store in Palmetto in 1986.

The bill contains wide-ranging changes to the state election code, including new proof-of-citizenship requirements when registering to vote, reductions to the kind of photo identification cards that can be used at polling locations,

Florida’s Department of Health is using emergency rules to cut about 12,000 people off from affordable access to their HIV/AIDS medication starting Sunday.

Russia's ⁠foreign ministry ⁠spokeswoman said on Thursday ​that an incident with a ‌Florida-registered speedboat off ‌the coast of ⁠Cuba ⁠was an ‘aggressive provocation by the United States’ ​aimed at escalating the situation and triggering a conflict,