Virgie Langford was ready for retirement. For five decades, the 70-year-old ran a mom-and-pop grocery store in Palmetto along Florida's Gulf Coast. The neighborhood had gotten dangerous, Langford got ...

RAIFORD, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a death warrant for James Duckett, a former Central Florida police officer convicted of killing an 11-year-old girl more than 30 years ago. Duckett’s execution ...

House lawmakers were digging into Jeffrey Epstein’s sprawling financial portfolio Wednesday as a committee deposed his former accountant and tried to understand his connections to some of the world’s ...

Billy Leon Kearse was convicted of shooting Fort Pierce Police Officer Danny Parrish with his own service weapon. A man convicted of fatally shooting a police officer with his own service weapon ...

Danny Parrish wanted to be a dad. The 29-year-old Army sergeant and his wife Mirtha were trying to get pregnant before he was to leave for Operation Desert Storm in 1991. The couple thought they had a ...

STARKE, Fla. — A man convicted of fatally shooting a police officer with his own service weapon during a traffic stop was executed Tuesday evening in Florida, becoming the third person put to death by ...

A man convicted of fatally shooting a police officer with his own service weapon during a traffic stop was executed Tuesday evening in Florida. Billy Leon Kearse, 53, became the third person put to ...

Three men are scheduled for execution in Florida during the month of March. Billy Leon Kearse is set to be executed on March 3 for the 1991 murder of a police officer. Two other men, Michael King and ...

A Florida man was executed Tuesday night for the grisly murder of a married mom who he raped and shot in the face after her 911 call went unanswered. Michael Lee King, 54, was sentenced to death for ...

STARKE, Fla. — A man convicted of fatally shooting a police officer with his own service weapon during a traffic stop was executed Tuesday evening in Florida, becoming the third person put to death by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A man is scheduled to be executed at Florida State Prison, shown in this file photos, Tuesday evening. ©Curt Anderson STARKE — A ...