A 9-year-old boy was killed Monday when the school bus he was on turned in front of a fully loaded tractor-trailer and was hit broadside, according to Florida Highway Patrol.
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency said Wednesday that an illegal immigrant who was injured and lost most of her family in Sunday's multivehicle wreck in Florida will not face deportation.
Heavy fog mixed with smoke from a nearby brush fire caused deadly collisions on Florida's Interstate 75.
After the crashes stopped, Steven Camps said, all he could hear was the sound of crying as the air, heavy with smoke, shone red from vehicle fires.
Florida authorities had reopened a section of Interstate 75 barely half an hour before a pileup on the smoke-shrouded highway that killed 10 people over the weekend, a state Highway Patrol spokesman said Monday.
The Florida case of a trooper ticketing a Miami police officer in his squad car for driving 120 miles per hour "is a simple misunderstanding that has been blown out of proportion," the officer's attorney said Friday.
A Miami police officer in a marked squad car has been charged with reckless driving, accused of zigzagging through Florida Turnpike traffic at more than 120 miles an hour so that he could be on time for his off-duty job, the Florida Highway Patrol said Saturday.
Florida police chase a police officer rushing to get to his off-duty job at speeds of more than 120 miles an hour.
Two Florida law enforcement officers who were escorting President Barack Obama's motorcade Tuesday night were hurt when their motorcycles collided, authorities said.
A medical examiner's autopsy of former pro wrestler "Macho Man" Randy Savage shows he died of natural causes due to heart disease, the Florida Highway Patrol announced Thursday.
Retired pro wrestler "Macho Man" Randy Savage, 58, was killed Friday morning in Seminole, Florida, when the Jeep he was driving jumped a median and hit a tree, the Florida Highway Patrol said.
The wrestling champion suffered a heart attack and crashed his car into a tree
A witness says a pilot who crashed in Florida was attempting a basic loop and flew straight into ground.
A pilot performing stunts in an east Florida air show died in a fiery crash Saturday when the Russian military plane he was flying broke from formation and plummeted to the ground, officials said.
Former teen idol David Cassidy was ordered to serve a year of probation and had his license suspended for six months after pleading no contest Wednesday to a DUI charge in Florida.
A nephew of the Dalai Lama died in northeast Florida Monday evening after he was hit by a car while walking along a highway.
The former teen star, now 60, spent nine hours behind bars before posting $350 bail
Former teen idol David Cassidy faces a drunken driving charge after a Florida Highway Patrol officer stopped him on a Fort Pierce, Florida, highway Wednesday night.
Miami Heat basketball player Udonis Haslem was charged with possession of marijuana on Sunday after a traffic stop, the Florida Highway Patrol said.
A 68-year-old woman was killed and 16 other people were injured, three seriously, when a church van crashed on the Florida Turnpike, authorities said.
A passenger train collided with a vehicle crossing over railroad tracks in northern Florida on Monday, killing a woman and two children in the car, authorities said.
After three failed efforts by troopers to meet with him in the aftermath of his November 27 auto accident, golfer Tiger Woods met with the Florida Highway Patrol five days later -- after they'd closed the case and decided to cite him for careless driving.
A hospital update on Tiger Woods' mother-in-law, who was released hours after being admitted with stomach pain.
Tiger Woods' mother-in-law, Barbro Holmberg, was released from a hospital in "good condition" Tuesday afternoon, hours after she was admitted, a hospital spokesman said.
The Florida Highway Patrol interviews Tiger Woods' neighbors about his car accident.
Golfer Tiger Woods will be issued a careless driving citation for the crash outside his home last week, but he will not face criminal charges, the Florida Highway Patrol said Tuesday.
Investigation concluded: Tiger Woods to be cited for careless driving, faces fine of $164. Case closed.
The golf champ will be cited for "careless driving" for his car accident
Florida authorities say the golfer hasn't yet talked - and charges are pending
Tiger Woods has canceled plans to attend his own golf tournament in southern California because of injuries he suffered near his Florida home early Friday, the pro golfer said in a statement Monday.
The Florida Highway Patrol says Tiger Woods was seriously injured in a car accident near his Windemere, Florida home.
Tiger Woods canceled a meeting with Florida State police for the third time on Sunday after issuing a statement in which he said the car crash outside his luxury home was his own fault.
Florida police are set to talk to the golf great Saturday afternoon
Pro golfer Tiger Woods says he bears sole responsibility for an early-morning car accident, but state police said he has canceled a Sunday interview with investigators looking into the crash.
Elin Nordegren used golf clubs to smash open Woods's back window
State troopers arrived at the home of Tiger Woods on Saturday to interview the pro golfer and his wife about a car crash near his home but were told the couple was not available to talk as scheduled, a spokeswoman for the Florida Highway Patrol said.
The golfing champ crashed his car into a tree near his Florida home early Friday morning
Imagine this: It's a gorgeous spring day in Miami and you're thoroughly tempted to lower the top of your rental car and push the power pedal a little too hard in a bid to break free from the traffic crush on the Palmetto.
Hulk Hogan's daughter says buckling up kept her safe during a "horrible car accident" on Sunday
Most wildfires across Florida were contained Tuesday, including a blaze that charred more than 3,500 acres and caused $9.6 million in damage in the city of Palm Bay.
Five young men died Saturday when the car they were in drove off the end of a private airstrip near Ocala, Florida, became airborne for 200 feet and slammed into an oak tree, authorities said.
Twisted, charred wreckage smolders on a stretch of Interstate 4 between Tampa and Orlando, Florida.
Five people, including two children, were found dead in three locations Friday in what Largo, Florida, police are investigating as a possible murder-suicide.
Several people save three kids whose van went into a retaining pool. Affiliate WESH reports.
Two children trapped in a sinking minivan are alive thanks to the efforts of five good Samaritans who jumped into a retention pond near Walt Disney World and saved them.
Thick smoke from area wildfires forced officials to reclose stretches of I-75 and I-10 in northern Florida on Sunday.
Dense smoke that closed parts of two major interstate highways was expected to keep choking Floridians and traffic until at least midmorning Sunday.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - PGA Tour player Arjun Atwal estimated he was going 80 mph in a 45 mph zone just before a car speeding next to him flipped and killed its driver, documents from the Florida Highway Patrol show.
Investigators are sifting through garbage cans collected at exits and rest areas, reviewing 55 surveillance tapes from toll plazas, and studying bullets and bullet fragments to determine who killed a family along the Florida Turnpike.
A man, a woman, and two children clasped in her arms were found shot to death Friday on the shoulder of Florida's Turnpike, police said.
Firestone announced a renewed recall effort Friday for its radial tires, mainly spares, still remaining on the Ford Explorer and similar SUVs from the 1990s.
News of a crash in which seven children perished so upset their grandfather that he had a massive heart attack and died, the children's mother said.
Seven children, including an infant, died Wednesday when a tractor-trailer rear-ended their car near Gainesville, Florida, slamming it into the rear of a school bus that had stopped to let children off.
Emergency officials in Florida shifted their focus from search and rescue to relief efforts Monday after Hurricane Jeanne cut a destructive path through the state.
Hurricane Jeanne, downgraded Sunday to a tropical storm, is responsible for the deaths of at least four people in Florida, officials said.
The teenager sentenced to life in prison for the 1999 death of a 6-year-old girl when he himself was 12 signed a plea deal Sunday that will get him out of prison soon, but leave him under house arrest for a year and on probation for a decade, his mother told CNN.
Kevin Killoran was 5 feet 9 inches and weighed 180 pounds when he joined the Florida Highway Patrol 12 years ago, but his weight climbed. Supervisors warned him that unless it dropped to patrol sta...
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