Fishermen grow out hair to help 3-year-old battling cancer

It was all laughter and smiles inside a Great Clips in South Tampa Tuesday night. You could hear the sound of clippers slicing off hundreds of thousands of strands of hair. Each will soon help make up a wig, which serves as a special layer of normality for girls like 3-year-old Trinity.

Largo teen granted wish to spend day with Dr. Jen Arnold

At 16 years old, Julie has spent a lifetime struggling with lung and breathing issues. This week, she lived out her dream when she connected with the person that has inspired her to keep fighting.

2nd Sesame Street Place park to open in San Diego

Officials with SeaWorld Entertainment and Sesame Workshop announced Monday that they are opening the country's second Sesame Place park in San Diego in spring 2021. The first Sesame Place theme park opened almost 40 years ago outside Philadelphia.

Country star Kelsea Ballerini surprises blind boy battling cancer with special gift

Country music star Kelsea Ballerini surprised 9-year-old Ayden, who is blind and battling brain cancer, with a customized electric guitar with his name engraved in Braille.

Police: South Florida man killed peeping tom outside girlfriend's house

A Florida man is charged with manslaughter for fatally beating a peeping tom who had been peering into his girlfriend's window as they had sex.

Two suspects charged in largest seizure of turtles in recent history, FWC says

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) has charged two suspects for poaching thousands of native turtles in Florida in what the agency says is the largest seizure of turtles in recent history.

Trump drops plan to host G-7

President Donald Trump on Saturday abruptly reversed his plan to hold the next Group of Seven world leaders' meeting at his Doral, Florida, golf resort next year.

Toddler with leukemia in desperate need of bone marrow donor

A little girl is in desperate need of a bone marrow donor. Chloe Bella Carvalho has been diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia (AML). She has been at Arnold Palmer Hospital undergoing chemotherapy and needs to find a perfectly matched donor.

Tropical Storm Nestor forms, threatening US Gulf Coast

Tropical Storm Nestor formed in the Gulf of Mexico on Friday, threatening the northern Gulf Coast with rising seawater, high winds and heavy rains.

Rare crocodile snapped up outside Englewood home

The Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office says an Animal Resources officer trapped a croc, which was about 6 feet long, and turned it over to Florida Fish & Wildlife for relocation.

Florida man who thought he had a bad sunburn on leg nearly dies from flesh-eating bacteria

A Pennsylvania native who recently moved to Pensacola, Florida, with his fiancee will need to learn to walk again after nearly losing his leg to a flesh-eating bacteria.

Five years after giving birth to victim's child, nanny sentenced to 20 years

Once a live-in nanny, Merissa Mowry was sentenced to 20 years for sexually battering the child for whom she was supposed to care, resulting in the birth of another child.

Florida man accused of not informing sex partners of HIV status

A Florida man with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is accused of having sex with multiple partners without informing them of his infection.

Space station's 2 women prep for first all-female spacewalk

NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir will make "HERstory," as NASA is calling it, with the first all-female spacewalk. All four men aboard the International Space Station will remain inside, as Koch and Meir go out to replace a broken battery charger.

Next G-7 to be held at Trump National Doral in Miami, White House announces

The White House said Thursday it has chosen President Donald Trump's golf resort, Trump National Doral, in Miami as the site for next year's Group of Seven summit.

Jury selection in South Florida school shooting set for Jan. 27

A judge issued an order Thursday to begin jury selection on Jan. 27 in a trial involving the 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that killed 17 people and wounded 17 others.

Florida woman allegedly attacks boyfriend with metal detector for watching porn, claims she did ‘God’s work’

A 77-year-old Florida woman was arrested for allegedly attacking her boyfriend with a metal detector after discovering him watching a television show that the woman believed to be pornography.