DAYTONA BEACH — A researcher at Florida Atlantic University who studies shark migration off Florida’s east coast suspects thousands of blacktip sharks aren’t migrating as far south in the winter as they used to because of warming water temperatures along the coast.That could spell more sharks off Central Florida, said Stephen Kajiura, a researcher and professor in the University's department of biological sciences and director of its elasmobranch research [...]

Instead, a new federal commission on school safety will examine the age issue as part of a package the White House announced Sunday in response to the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, last month that left 17 dead.

A top airport official said the pilot of US-Bangla Airlines flight BS211 did not follow landing instructions from the control tower, and had approached the airport's one runway from the wrong direction.

Calendars apparently do not mean much to "Landlord" the gopher tortoise.While spring doesn’t officially begin until March 20, the roughly 11.5-pound tortoise recently decided to stir from his long slumber and crawl out from his igloo-shaped enclosure inside the Emerald Coast Wildlife Refuge.Maybe he was just hungry. Or perhaps he actually sensed that it was getting warmer outside. [...]

DEFUNIAK SPRINGS — A bag of large knives was found within arm’s reach of a man who said he thought about killing the sheriff's deputy who pulled him over.According to a press release from the Walton County Sheriff's Office, on March 9 a deputy on routine patrol observed a camouflage Jeep traveling eastbound on U.S. Highway 90 near Gene Hurley Road. The tag displayed on the Jeep turned out to be registered to a 2007 Blue Hyundai Sonata.The deputy pulled the [...]

"Mayday, mayday, mayday," the pilot is heard saying during the crash Sunday night. "East River — engine failure."

The calculations cover eight months under President Donald Trump, the first hints about how his administration complies with the Freedom of Information Act.