The role of a lifeguard is pretty much described in their title: they guard lives. So when 21-year-old lifeguard Tomas Lopez was informed that a man was drowning and needed assistance, he leapt into action to save the guy’s life. …

Have you ever heard a parent tell you that they would die so their child could live? A mother in Florida actually did die protecting her daughter on June 25th. As tropical storm Debby was barely anything with just 45 …

Sometimes it seems that there are a lot of things that we still do not know about the whole George Zimmerman – Trayvon Martin incident that we should know by now. What we found out today goes further into explaining …

50 Shades of Grey, author E. L. James’ erotic novel which began its life on a Twilight fanfiction website, was unceremoniously yanked from Florida’s Brevard County libraries after it was labeled by some as erotica. Don Walker, a spokesman for …

Disney and Star Wars have been in a harmonious partnership since 1986 when Star Tours became the very first non-Disney attraction to get it’s own ride. The ride was built and designed by a combination of Lucas Arts and Disney …

Miami-Dade Fire Captain Brian Beckmann got into a bit of hot water last month when he made some fairly brutal and racially insensitive comments on his personal facebook page. This is what he had to say about the press conference …

Louis Vuitton, the manufacturer of expensive handbags carried by thousands of people who usually cannot afford to do so, is asking a Florida court to put the hurt on hundreds of websites that sell knock-off Vitton products. Their targets: louiszvuitton.com, …

The New York Times is reporting the recent Florida law requiring welfare applicants to submit to a drug test has actually cost the state $45,7870 since its inception in July, state documents are showing. The law was approved amidst the …

Florida rapist and serial murderer David Alan Gore has been sentenced to death for the 1983 murder of 17-year old Lynn Elliot and will die by lethal injection tonight at six p.m. Gore is responsible for the rape and murder …

According to the Washington Post, Florida special prosecutor Angela Corey plans to announce as early as Wednesday afternoon that she is charging neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman in the shooting of Trayvon Martin. The announcement will be made at 7:30pm …

Florida state appointed special prosecutor Angela Corey said Monday she will not take the Trayvon Martin shooting death before a grand jury. Under Florida law, only first-degree murder cases require the use of grand juries. Corey said her decision to …

Remember the community college baseball team that beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 3 years ago? Well, they did it again. This time they beat the Baltimore Orioles 2-1 in what manager Buch Schowalter called a “controlled scrimmage.” Yeah right. To be …

President Obama spoke out during a press conference yesterday about the shooting death of 17-year old Trayvon Martin, saying that the incident evokes thoughts of his own children, just like it does for many Americans. “If I had a son, …

Trayvon Martin, the 17-year old Florida teen who was shot by a self-appointed neighborhood watch member in February, was apparently on the phone when it happened…and his last words could be damning for the man accused of shooting him. The …

In one of a series of recent attacks in Florida as of late, a mother fought off a shark that was attacking her daughter, minutes after a surfer was attacked on the same beach. Valeh Levy and her 15-year-old daughter …

In November 2010, the federal Transportation Security Administration put a freeze on airports opting to use privatized security services instead of the agency’s own employees, but a provision in a Senate bill passed last month has opened the door for …

Mitt Romney’s win in the Florida GOP primary race was no surprise. And, there has been a not-so-surprising dearth of responses on Twitter from regular folks. Everyone, especially Newt Gingrich, was just ready to move on to the next one. …

As the results from Tuesday’s Florida GOP primary roll in, you can see how they break down county by county via Google’s Politics & Elections dashboard. Earlier this month, Google unveiled Politics & Elections as a way to group all …

It was only a matter of time, but citizens in some states are getting the chance to vote via the Internet. LiveBallot, based on Microsoft’s Windows Azure cloud computing system and developed by Democracy Live, allows voters who are overseas …

In order to aid in a new “project,” Florida Governor Rick Scott has waded into the murky water that is Facebook feedback. On Thursday, Scott posted a contest of sorts to his Facebook page that asked people to share their …

Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum said today his office has sued online travel companies Expedia and Orbitz for failing to pay the right amount of taxes on hotel room rentals.

The lawsuit states that while the companies have been collecting these taxes from consumers all along, they have only been paying a portion of the taxes to the state and keeping the rest as profit.  Florida says the practice denies it of millions of dollars every year in tax revenue.