Posted: 9:45 AM Florida is wiping away a drug conviction of a man who spent 27 years in prison for a murder he didn't commit.

Posted: 9:44 AM A large building erupted into flames early Thursday near Atlanta's airport, with smoke filling the sky as jets approached the runway.

Posted: 6:12 PM Two Alabama real estate investors have pleaded guilty to bid rigging and mail fraud in a scheme to artificially lower prices of auctioned homes.

Posted: 4:18 PM A newly-formed committee at Columbus State University is considering expanding the school's athletic program and moving its teams to NCAA Division I.

Posted: 10:24 AM Authorities say they are awaiting result of an autopsy to determine what caused the death of an inmate in Houston County.

Posted: 10:23 AM Police say they were called to a Tampa apartment complex by a man who was requesting to go to a detox facility. But when they knocked on his door he came out pointing a firearm at them.

Posted: 10:20 AM Florida wildlife officials say they've spotted the first mothers and calves of the right whale calving season.

Posted: 10:18 AM Indiana's recently ousted state school superintendent is Florida's new education commissioner.

Posted: 10:22 AM Authorities say a search is on for the wreckage of a small plane that crashed in south Georgia.

Posted: 10:20 AM The State Board of Education is interviewing three finalists for Florida Education Commissioner.

Posted: 10:19 AM A central Florida woman faces multiple charges after kicking her 66-year-old mother and punching an 8-year-old who tried to defend her.

Posted: 10:18 AM Officials in central Florida say a severe thunderstorm that may have produced a tornado damaged about 40 structures in a mobile home community.

Posted: 10:17 AM A Florida girl is expected to be released from a western New York hospital nearly four months after the stroller she was strapped into fell into the Erie Canal.

Posted: 10:15 AM A Florida judge has denied defense requests to end 24-hour GPS monitoring of George Zimmerman while he is out on bond in the fatal shooting of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin.

Posted: 2:06 PM The Florida Senate is providing a page on its website so citizens can get information on the federal health care overhaul and express their views on the subject.

Posted: 10:35 AM A former South Florida police officer is scheduled to be executed for killing nine people in 1986.

Posted: 10:34 AM Authorities say a 17-year-old boy fatally stabbed his mother's live-in boyfriend.

Posted: 10:31 AM Walt Disney Co. is moving all four of is cruise ships to Florida during the first half of 2014.

Posted: 10:30 AM Police say a man shot a woman outside a church in South Florida before fatally shooting himself.

Updated: 10:28 AM The older sister of missing Florida foster child Rilya Wilson is in the courtroom as testimony resumes in the murder trial of the girl's caretaker.

Posted: 10:43 AM Authorities say one person is dead after the canoe he was in with six other people capsized in a lake in northwest Orlando.

Posted: 10:42 AM Victims of domestic violence in the Orlando area won't have to leave their pets behind when escaping abuse.

Posted: 10:40 AM Two Pakistani-born brothers charged in an alleged terrorist conspiracy have pleaded not guilty during an arraignment in South Florida federal court.

Posted: 10:39 AM The state education department is urging Georgia school officials to evaluate the potential threat posed by carbon monoxide after lethal levels of the gas were found in an Atlanta elementary school, where more than 40 children and some adults were sent to hospitals

Posted: 10:38 AM Georgia twins charged in the death of a former Pensacola newspaper reporter made brief appearances in a Florida courtroom.