Posted: 9:09 AM ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Officials at the First Baptist Church of Orlando say more than $40,000 in offering has been stolen.

Updated: 6:41 PM Tuesday, Governor Rick Scott announced four appointments and one reappointment to the Criminal Justice Standards and Training Commission.

Posted: 3:41 PM An appellate court has rejected Attorney General Pam Bondi's appeal of ruling against the Legislature's plan to privatize nearly 30 prison facilities in South Florida.

Posted: 3:39 PM A judge has delayed a ruling on whether the ousted president of the nation's oldest black fraternity should be reinstated.

Posted: 3:36 PM Lowndes County Sheriff Chris Prine says a Valdosta woman has been arrested on multiple counts of identity theft.

Posted: 3:33 PM Federal prosecutors say the owners of a Savannah-based casino boat owe the government nearly $7 million earned from illegal gambling in state waters off Georgia and South Carolina.

Posted: 3:26 PM Orlando is asking the Florida Supreme Court to reverse an appellate ruling that says red light camera fines were illegal if collected before the state passed a law allowing the cameras.

Posted: 3:25 PM A 9-year-old Gardendale girl has drowned after pulling her younger brother to safety in a pond near Haleyville.

Posted: 1:06 PM Two dozen tea party and like-minded groups are trying to organize a rally that would take place the day before the Republican National Convention begins and feature former presidential candidates Michelle Bachmann and Herman Cain.

Posted: 1:01 PM Environmental groups are suing the Army Corps of Engineers, the state and a water management district over algae blooms that are polluting southwest Florida's Caloosahatchee River.

Posted: 3:30 PM A central Florida man has been convicted in the fatal beating of an elderly man who authorities say was mistaken for a sex offender.

Posted: 5:11 PM Authorities say a Tampa Bay area man and woman were killed when a pickup ran into their motorcycle.

Posted: 5:10 PM A Jacksonville man has been sentenced to life in prison for killing another man outside a gas station.

Posted: 2:47 PM Health officials say the nation is on track to have the worst year for whooping cough in more than five decades.

Posted: 2:45 PM The Obama administration is speeding up expansion projects at five major U.S. ports, including two in politically important Florida, as part of a broader plan to accelerate public works projects across the country during a weak economic recovery.

Posted: 2:43 PM A day after a judge declared a mistrial, federal prosecutors say they will retry Cortnee Brantley.

Posted: 10:18 AM Authorities say five masked home invaders fatally shot a 50-year-old man in east Orange County.

Posted: 10:15 AM One of the state's major tomato growers will pay two women $150,000 and change the way it deals with harassment complaints to settle a federal lawsuit.

Posted: 10:14 AM A man has pleaded guilty to setting a blaze that gutted a Pensacola abortion clinic.

Posted: 5:06 PM First lady Michelle Obama on Wednesday visited a summer camp in Alabama for children impacted by last year's tornadoes and met with local leaders on recovery efforts.

Posted: 3:06 PM Authorities say the suspect in a shooting rampage at an Alabama bar is on suicide watch at the county jail.

Posted: 11:16 AM Authorities in central Florida say two men were trying to rob an Internet cafe when a 71-year-old patron began shooting his own gun, wounding the suspects.

Updated: 3:35 PM A 4-year-old child was found dead in a home that burned in Polk County.

Posted: 11:10 AM Odyssey Marine Exploration Inc. says it has recovered approximately 48 tons of silver bullion from a British cargo ship sunk during WWII off Ireland's coast.

Posted: 11:09 AM The eastbound lanes of Florida's main east-west corridor have been shut down because a fuel tanker overturned.