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Former Florida defensive tackle Desmond Watson, a 6-foot-6, 464-pound prospect, is signing with his hometown Tampa Bay Buccaneers as an undrafted free agent.
Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 33 shots and the Tampa Bay Lightning came back to beat the Florida Panthers 5-1 to cut their deficit in the first-round series to 2-1.
Florida students who were traumatized by the 2018 Parkland school shooting — and last week’s deadly shooting at Florida State University — are urging lawmakers in the Republican-controlled statehouse not to roll back gun restrictions they passed in the wake of the killing at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
Florida’s “hanging chads” ballot controversy riveted the nation during the 2000 presidential contest and later prompted Congress to create an independent commission to help states update their voting equipment.
Matthew Tkachuk had two power-play goals and an assist in his first game after a two-month absence and the Florida Panthers opened defense of their Stanley Cup title with a 6-2 win over the Tampa Bay Lightning in the opener of the teams’ first-round playoff series.
Student survivors of last week’s deadly shooting at Florida State University are urging legislators to block an effort to reverse a law passed in the wake of the 2018 Parkland shooting that raised the state’s gun-buying age from 18 to 21.
A growing number of Republican-led states are taking aim at driver's licenses issued by other states to people in the U.S. illegally.
Students who experienced a shooting at both Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018 and Florida State University days ago have sent a letter to Gov. Ron DeSantis demanding he reject a law that would lower the firearm purchase age back to 18 years old.
U.S. Coast Guard crews are still searching for five people missing after a boat capsized off Florida’s Atlantic Coast.
President Donald Trump was in Miami for his latest appearance at a sports event as he watched UFC fighters and was joined by several Cabinet members and top administration officials.
The Final Fours held in the Alamodome have always been exciting. San Antonio has hosted some classic college basketball games and Monday’s championship between Florida and Houston had fans on the edge of their seats all night long.
Florida is a unanimous No. 1 in the final Associated Press men’s college basketball poll of the 2024-25 season after winning the national championship.
After a comeback win against Houston inside the Alamodome, the Florida Gators took a trip down the San Antonio River Walk to celebrate its third national title.
A thrill-a-minute NCAA title for the Florida Gators in San Antonio has reminded us all of what’s so good about the games these college athletes play.
The 2025 NCAA Men’s Basketball National Championship game started with both teams trading baskets like body blows.
Florida and Walter Clayton Jr. somehow overcame Houston’s spirit-crushing defense Monday night to will out a 65-63 victory in an NCAA title-game thriller not decided until Clayton’s own D stopped the Cougars from taking a game-winning shot at the buzzer.
Florida and Walter Clayton Jr. somehow overcame Houston’s spirit-crushing defense Monday night to will out a 65-63 victory in an NCAA title-game thriller not decided until Clayton’s own D stopped the Cougars from taking a game-winning shot at the buzzer.
The University of Houston men’s basketball team is set to face the University of Florida in the NCAA Men’s Final Four National Championship, riding high after a thrilling 14-point comeback against Duke University.
After the University of Houston Cougars rallied from a 14-point deficit with eight minutes to play against Duke in Saturday night’s Final Four matchup, the Florida Gators understand how tough it is to beat Houston.
Whoever said there were no great underdog stories left in March Madness, or that the title would go to whoever spends the most money — or amasses the best collection of big names from the transfer portal — clearly never checked out Houston.
Alijah Martin never really liked talking too much about his first Final Four experience because of the heartbreaking ending with Florida Atlantic two years ago.
Florida has gone from being picked to finish sixth in the rugged Southeastern Conference to playing for national championship.
On the second day of the 2025 Men’s Final Four weekend, the excitement continued as the two winning teams advanced to compete for the championship title.
Florida takes the win against Auburn 78-73 in the NCAA Men’s Final Four semifinal game. The Gators will advance to seek their third national championship on Monday, April 7.
Two All-Americans, one chance to give their their team a chance to win a national championship.
Walter Clayton Jr. scored 34 points and Florida beat Southeastern Conference rival Auburn 79-73 in the Final Four on Saturday night, sending the Gators to the national championship game for the first time since their titles in 2006 and 2007.
With the 2025 NCAA Men’s Final Four officially kicking off on Saturday evening, all four teams—Auburn, Duke, Florida, and Houston—held open practices on Friday for fans and the media at the Alamodome.
Auburn and Florida are the last two standing of a record 14 Southeastern Conference teams that made the NCAA Tournament.
A handful of elections in Florida and Wisconsin have become key tests of President Donald Trump’s political standing just over two months into his second term in the White House.
A bitcoin investor is headed to space with three polar explorers on the first flight to carry people over the North and South poles.
At least four states are considering giving college athletes tax breaks on endorsement income.
Fittingly for an NCAA Tournament in which big schools from big conferences took record numbers of spots in the first week, then hogged them all for the second week, the Final Four will bring four teams seeded No. 1 to the sport’s biggest stage to play for the title.
Walter Clayton Jr. rescued top-seeded Florida with two late 3-pointers, and the Gators rallied from nine points down late to reach the Final Four with an 84-79 victory over Texas Tech in the NCAA Tournament’s West Region final.
President Donald Trump has spent nearly every weekend in Florida since starting his second term.
An appeals court has ruled that President Donald Trump can fire two board members of independent labor agencies from their respective posts in the federal government.
Will Richard scored 15 points, Alijah Martin added 14 points and seven rebounds, and top-seeded Florida played a steady second half to run away from No. 4 seed Maryland and into the NCAA Tournament’s West Region final with an 87-71 win.
The White House has pulled Rep. Elise Stefanik’s nomination to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
A bill that would relax restrictions on working hours for Florida teenagers is moving through the state Legislature amid an ongoing crackdown on illegal immigration.
Washington is roiled by the news that one of President Donald Trump’s top aides added a journalist to a group chat discussing military plans.
Walter Clayton Jr. and Florida ended UConn’s pursuit of a third straight national championship, with Clayton burying two key 3-pointers in the final three minutes of a scintillating 77-75 victory for the top-seeded Gators in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.
Detectives have recovered four diamond earrings from a suspected thief two weeks after he gulped the Tiffany & Co. jewelry worth nearly $770,000 during his arrest on the side of a highway in the Florida Panhandle.
Tobacco Road is the center of the NCAA Tournament this week with three women’s first-round sites at Duke, North Carolina and N.
The handful of remaining perfect brackets in the NCAA Tournament busted out on Sunday, ending the hopes of millions against exceptionally long odds.
A Florida man who killed an 8-year-old girl and her grandmother on a night in which he drank heavily and used drugs has been executed.
A Florida man was sentenced to eight years in federal prison for bombing a sculpture in San Antonio, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
TCEQ's Office of Public Interest Counsel has officially recommended denying a wastewater permit for a Florida-based corporation planning to develop nearly 3,000 homes and a wastewater plant in northwest Bexar County.
A SpaceX capsule has arrived at the International Space Station, delivering the replacements for NASA's two stuck astronauts.
Walter Clayton Jr. scored 22 points, and No. 4 Florida pulled away from No. 5 Alabama for a 104-82 victory in the Southeastern Conference Tournament semifinals.
Gun rights advocates have been fighting to overturn a Florida law setting the minimum age to buy a gun at 21 since the day the measure was signed, in the wake of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida in 2018.
As near temperatures climbed to near records in parts of the central United States, a potent storm system was setting up to wallop the nation later.
Duke has ended Auburn’s eight-week stay at No. 1 in the AP Top 25 men’s college basketball poll.
Air Force fighter jets on Sunday intercepted a civilian aircraft flying in the temporarily restricted airspace near President Donald Trump’s Florida home, bringing the number of violations to more than 20 since Trump took office on Jan. 20.
President Donald Trump created a task force Friday to prepare for the 2026 World Cup, which will bring the globe’s premier soccer tournament to North America at a time when Trump’s on-again-off-again tariffs have ratcheted up tensions across the continent.
A Florida sheriff says there are “no signs of an active shooter” and no injuries after police responded to a report of gunshots at the Corry Station, a Navy installation in Pensacola.
Florida’s attorney general says his office has opened a criminal investigation into Andrew and Tristan Tate, who are charged with human trafficking in Romania.
The State Department has reinstated the “foreign terrorist organization” designation for Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi group, fulfilling an order announced by President Donald Trump.
Miami Beach broke up with spring break last year and city leaders still aren’t interested in couples counseling.
The Florida Man Games are back for Round 2, as teams from around the state gather to prove they have what it takes to join the ranks of the world’s worst superhero.
Influencer brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate have arrived in the U.S. from Romania after authorities lifted travel restrictions on the siblings, who have millions of online followers.
The warmer conditions have kept mosquitoes, cockroaches and ticks active, setting the stage for a significant "pest surge" this spring. Experts predict a rise in bites, infestations, and health issues related to pests in the coming months as our temperatures continue to be warmer over the next month.
Georgia fans showed it’s possible to storm the court for a postgame celebration — and to be polite at the same time.
Georgia guard Blue Cain sank a go-ahead 3-pointer with 47 seconds remaining after No. 3 Florida took its first lead by scoring 13 unanswered points, and the Bulldogs beat the Gators 88-83.
The Justice Department has concluded that a military veteran’s presidential pardon for charges that he stormed the U.S. Capitol also extends to his separate conviction for illegally possessing stolen grenades and classified information.
The aspirations of Florida’s first lady Casey DeSantis have long been a topic of discussion in Tallahassee.
As Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis approaches the end of his term in office, he is talking up one potential heir to succeed him in 2026: his wife, Casey DeSantis.
A rainy day in Florida resulted in all but one Grapefruit League spring training game being canceled.
Coast Guard crews have rescued three boaters in Florida after their boat flipped over and they were stuck at sea for nine hours.
This time of year is always intense and nerve-racking for high school basketball programs that want to win a state title.
A woman backed by wealthy advisers who built a company to make it easier for college students to apply for financial aid has gone on trial on criminal charges that she defrauded JPMorgan Chase & Co. in a $175 million buyout.
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President Donald Trump is throwing his support behind congressional efforts for a federal takeover of the nation’s capital, saying he approves putting the District of Columbia back under direct federal control.
Eight green sea turtles stunned by the cold during a rare snowfall in Florida have been released back into the Atlantic Ocean.
Native American activist Leonard Peltier has been released from a Florida prison, weeks after then-President Joe Biden angered law enforcement officials by commuting his life sentence to home confinement in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents.
Auburn is No. 1 in The Associated Press men's college basketball poll for the sixth consecutive week.
Republicans are trying to exclude people who are in the U.S. illegally from the numbers used to portion out congressional seats among the states.
