The 11-foot-long, more than 550-pound alligator tore through a screen to take a dip in a Florida family’s pool.
Author: Michael Braun, Fort Myers News-Press
Florida man once bitten by alligator is chomped by 8-foot shark while on vacation
Justin Stuller is now sporting two dozen stitches and a small limp after tangling with an eight-foot lemon shark in the Florida Keys.
Florida daycare teacher fired after child comes home with ‘I’m out of diapers’ written on torso
A Florida mother has pulled both of her children from the daycare center after the incident.
Man accused of stealing Florida airport employee’s wallet, taking car with a mother and child inside
A Texas man is facing seven charges including assault and kidnapping after carjacking a family’s vehicle at Southwest Florida International Airport.
Florida woman’s right hand severed by private plane’s propeller in Key West accident
The Florida Highway Patrol says Rebecca Lynn Gray, 45, was struck by a propeller blade as she helped prepare a rented Cessna for takeoff Saturday.
She was dead for 18 minutes after drowning in a rip current. Then she started breathing
Tia Gambrel-Irizarry, a trained diver and former lifeguard, drowned in a powerful rip current off Turner Beach on the edge of Captiva. She survived.
My dad died too soon, but a 1940 article gave me a glimpse of a man who stood up to Nazis
A story in a World War II-era newspaper gave me insight into how an Austria couple — my parents — escaped Nazis and built a home in England, America.
Florida man charged with bludgeoning crew member to death on commercial fishing boat
Charges of second-degree murder were filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Fort Myers against Casey Lowell Hickok, 32, of Copeland, Florida