OAKLAND PARK (AP) — A 7-year-old South Florida girl is recovering after a 6-foot iguana bit her foot and tore away tendons. ...more

October 1, 2009

Authorities are looking for the man who sped through an Orlando International Airport parking collection booth without paying a $917 bill. ...more

October 1, 2009

Police say a Seminole County mother strangled her toddler by using her hands and a bra. Authorities said Tuesday that 22-year-old Nioshka Bello was arrested upon release from the hospital, where she had been involuntarily committed after a suicide attempt. Police say Bello swallowed as many as 20 Benadryl pills after killing 2-year-old daughter Janessa Sandoval on Saturday. ...more

September 30, 2009

Authorities are looking for Grace Jamieson, 89, who has been missing since this morning. ...more

September 29, 2009

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (AP) — A Southern California man accused of killing a pedestrian while driving and text messaging has been ordered to stand trial for gross vehicular manslaughter. ...more

September 28, 2009

CHICAGO (AP) — Cell phone footage showing a group of teens viciously kicking and striking a 16-year-old honors student with splintered railroad ties has ramped up pressure on Chicago officials to address chronic violence that has led to dozens of deaths of city teens each year. ...more

September 28, 2009

Authorities say friends of an ill man dumped the 54-year-old from a car and planned to meet him at a hospital, but the man died on the side of a Seminole County road. ...more

September 27, 2009

Authorities found three Volusia County children Saturday who had been missing, according to Volusia County Sheriff's Office. Their mother has not been located. ...more

September 26, 2009

The father of a suburban Philadelphia woman who faked her own abduction and fled with her daughter to Disney World has been ordered to stand trial in connection with a scuffle with TV cameramen. ...more

September 26, 2009

Melbourne police say a 37-year-old woman tried to sell her 6-year-old boy for gas money. ...more

September 26, 2009