LAKE CITY, Fla. (AP) — A Florida police officer was shot early Tuesday while making a “well-being" check at a home that had been struck by bullets, police said.

LAKE CITY, Fla. (AP) — A tornado uprooted trees and downed power lines Sunday in a rural part of north Florida, according to the National Weather Service.

LAKE CITY, Fla. (AP) — A woman was dragged for several hundred feet on a Florida highway while holding onto the door of a truck before she lost her grip, was run over by the same vehicle and died,...

LAKE CITY, Fla. (AP) — A plane crashed into the backyard of a Florida home Saturday. It's unclear if anyone was injured.

Columbia County Sheriff’s officials said the plane crashed into the...

LAKE CITY, Fla. (AP) — A 15-year-old Georgia girl died and her sister and mother were injured when their car crashed into pine trees on the side of Interstate 75 in north Florida on Tuesday,...

LAKE CITY, Fla. (AP) — Officials say two inmates have died and another was injured in a suspected drug overdose at a Florida prison.

A Florida Department of Corrections news release says the...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A second small Florida city this month has paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to hackers who took over most of its computer operations, an official said Wednesday, while a...

LAKE CITY, Fla. (AP) — Charges have been dropped against a Florida man who refused to remove what a deputy considered an obscene sticker from his vehicle's window.

LAKE CITY, Fla. (AP) — A baby has been injured after an oak tree fell on a Florida home during a strong storm, crashing through the ceiling where she slept.

LAKE CITY, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say an 11-year-old Florida boy fatally shot his visiting 14-year-old friend.

A Columbia County Sheriff's Office news release says the boy was arrested Wednesday and charged with manslaughter.

CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) — It was a lucky day for some Florida police officers who recovered a stolen van filled with Krispy Kreme doughnuts.

Clearwater police posted a photo on Facebook of a group of officers standing in front of the van holding boxes of the tasty treats.

LAKE CITY, Fla. (AP) — An inmate at a Florida prison strangled his cellmate, gouged the body's eyes and then strung the dead inmate's ear around his neck, according to a news report.

LAKE CITY, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say an inmate killed his cellmate at a Florida prison.

News outlets report that a prisoner at Columbia Correctional Institution Annex strangled and mutilated his cellmate early Thursday morning.

The Florida Department of Corrections identified the victim as 58-year-old Larry Mark, who was serving a life sentence for a 1981 murder.

ROSEBURG, Ore. (AP) — A motorcyclist from Florida who was last seen May 28 in Oregon has been found injured on a dirt road in the Oregon wilderness.

The Douglas County Sheriff's Office said Sunday that a search effort for Matthew Chapin, of Lake City, Florida, began Friday.

He was found Sunday near Clearwater Falls in the Umpqua National Forest, north of Crater Lake.

LAKE CITY, Fla. (AP) — A Florida soccer coach arrested in New York after accusations that he ran away with a teenage girl has been returned to his home state.

Online jail records show that 27-year-old Rian Rodriguez was booked Thursday into the Columbia County Detention Facility on charges of sexual assault and interference with child custody.

LAKE CITY, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say a missing Florida teenage girl and a 27-year-old soccer coach have been found in New York.

The Gainesville Sun reports that the 17-year-old and Rian Rodriguez were stopped by a New York State Police officer Friday afternoon in Syracuse. The Columbia County Sheriff's Office in Florida says the girl, who had been missing since Saturday, was detained, and Rodriguez was taken into custody.

LAKE CITY, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say a missing Florida teenage girl and a 27-year-old soccer coach have been found in New York.

LAKE CITY, Fla. (AP) — A high school soccer player from Florida is missing and authorities believe she is traveling with a 27-year-old soccer coach.

LAKE CITY, Fla. (AP) — Two former Florida prison guards who were members of the Ku Klux Klan have been convicted of plotting to kill a black inmate after his release.

A Columbia County jury found David Elliot Moran, 49, and Charles Thomas Newcomb, 45, guilty of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder, Attorney General Pam Bondi's office said Tuesday. No date has been set for sentencing.

LAKE CITY, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say more than two dozen kids attending a science competition in north Florida fell ill and were taken to the hospital after eating a catered lunch.

The Columbia County Sheriff's Office said on its Facebook page that 28 children and 2 adults were taken on Saturday to hospitals due to suspected food poisoning.

Authorities say people fell ill at Florida Gateway College in Lake City at a middle school Science Olympiad was being held.