Posted: 10:22 AM Authorities say 10 homes are among two dozen structures burned by a brush fire in the Ocala National Forest.

Posted: 10:21 AM Researchers say they have tagged and released a great white shark off the coast of Jacksonville.

Posted: 10:19 AM Casey Anthony has come out of seclusion for a meeting with the creditors in her bankruptcy case in Tampa.

Updated: 5:41 PM Florida Highway Patrol investigators say a motorcyclist was killed Saturday in Santa Rosa County.

Posted: 5:36 PM An Alabama casino has won its bid for an expanded liquor license.

Posted: 5:31 PM The Birmingham school board is planning a series of community meetings before it votes on a plan to close seven city schools.

Posted: 5:17 PM As the cost of building a new nuclear plant soars, there are signs of buyer's remorse.

Posted: 3:50 PM A grand jury has decided not to charge a University of South Alabama campus police officer in a student's shooting death.

Posted: 10:36 AM The Volusia County Council has decided to ban driving on the beach in front of Andy Romano Beachfront Park.

Posted: 10:34 AM Authorities shut down a south Georgia wastewater treatment plant as a river flooded critical buildings and structures.

Posted: 10:32 AM Four Alabama youths are accused of stealing a goat, beating the animal and then tossing it from an 18-foot-high bridge into shallow water below, where it died.

Posted: 7:41 AM With recent rains, Lake Lanier is at its highest level in almost two years.

Posted: 5:52 PM A Jacksonville man has been convicted of second-degree murder in the strangling death of his girlfriend.

Posted: 10:28 AM A Pensacola judge sentenced a woman to 300 days in jail after she was convicted of animal cruelty for duct-taping her dog's injured eye.

Posted: 10:26 AM Four people charged in connection with a 2009 salmonella outbreak that killed nine people and sickened hundreds are set to appear in federal court in south Georgia.

Posted: 10:24 AM A BP executive who led the company's internal probe of the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico says his investigators didn't explore whether top BP managers had a role in causing the disaster because they didn't have access to employees and records from contractors.

Updated: 5:35 PM Police say a girl who accidentally shot herself in the leg at a midtown Atlanta high school has been taken to the Fulton County Jail.

Posted: 10:03 AM There's a lack of gun-friendly bills in gun-friendly Florida.

Posted: 9:50 AM A new report shows that deaths of younger teen drivers increased sharply in the first six months of last year, reversing a decade-long trend.

Posted: 9:49 AM Mindy McCready's funeral is being held in her hometown of Fort Myers.

Posted: 10:37 AM Two people were struck and killed by a train after the vehicle they were traveling in went through the lighted gates at a railroad crossing near Lakeland.

Updated: 10:35 AM Organizers of the Redneck Games, a Georgia festival that includes competitions such as toilet seat horseshoes and mud pit belly flops, say this summer's event is being canceled.

Posted: 10:34 AM The Republican-controlled Florida Senate's new leader is a sharp-tongued orator.

Posted: 12:54 PM The Alabama attorney general's office used a century-old gambling case to get a rare, but not unprecedented, search warrant to raid VictoryLand casino in Shorter.

Posted: 12:39 PM One of the most beautiful tracts in Alabama, a sandy white stretch at Gulf State Park, could become the site of a large hotel and conference center.