Topic: Sheriff Grady Judd

A 21-year-old University of Florida student has been charged with first-degree murder after allegedly confessing to stabbing his mother to death at her Florida home over the weekend, authorities say.

A former Illinois judge and several Disney employees were among 108 people arrested over the past six days during a Florida human trafficking sting operation, the Polk County Sheriff's Office said Wednesday.

A Marine veteran accused of brutally killing a family of four and shooting an 11-year-old girl multiple times said he did it in search of a girl who was the victim of sex trafficking and was about the commit suicide.

A former U.S. Marine wearing full-body armor shot and killed four people, including a 3-month-old infant, and injured an 11-year-old girl in Florida early Sunday, police said.

Former Tropical Storm Nestor made landfall on St. Vincent Island, Fla., on Saturday afternoon with maximum sustained winds of 45 mph.

Teachers should be armed and schools should have better security to prevent attacks like the one in Parkland, Fla., this year, a special panel said in a report.

Four people died when a small plane crashed after taking off from a Florida airport in heavy fog on Sunday, authorities said.

Undercover deputies in Florida arrested a man accused of importing three pieces of pottery covered in $600,000 worth of meth paste.

A Florida man dressed in a French maid costume and a dog collar was one of 95 people arrested in a prostitution sting, police said.

Local and federal law enforcement agencies combined their efforts to bust over 130 suspected sex offenders in Tampa as part of "Operation Cyber Vigilance."