The 4-year-old girl sobbed as rescuers rushed her ashore. In the boat behind her, the faces of her fellow survivors were painted with "a thousand-yard stare," one witness said Monday.
After treading water for about 20 hours, a 4-year-old girl and three others were rescued Sunday by Coast Guard crews off the Florida Keys, though an 80-year-old woman drowned before she could be reached.
An 8-foot-long alligator sank its teeth into a 90-year-old woman's leg and tried to drag her into a canal in southern Florida, a spokeswoman for the state's Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said.
A leisurely day of sport fishing ended with an exhilarating struggle Sunday when a group of fishermen landed a massive thresher shark off the coast of Florida.
Call it the latest piano bar, a large-scale mystery, or a whole new set of Florida Keys.
Denise Leone has been a school crossing guard in Pinellas County, Florida, for more than two years, helping children safely cross the road each morning on their way to Forest Lakes Elementary School.
Florida wildlife officials release a mother bear and her three cubs, one of which had been found with a jar on its head.
It may seem like a story ripped from the pages of "Winnie the Pooh," but a little black bear is alive after Florida biologists removed a plastic bottle stuck on its head for at least 10 days.
A 55-year-old researcher was attacked by an alligator Tuesday while diving on his job at Silver Springs Amusement Park in Ocala, Florida, authorities said.
Looking for love, or perhaps just for some cafeteria food or spelling lessons, an alligator was found Monday inside a middle school in suburban Tampa, Florida.
Florida's endangered manatees are dying because of unusually cold weather. CNN's David Mattingly reports.
The unusually cold weather that struck Florida in January did more than damage crops and citrus trees.
Something fishy's going on in Miami, and police and Florida wildlife officials said they're trying to get to the bottom of it.
Florida Law enforcement officials said Monday they had launched an investigation into a tragic boating accident near St. Augustine, Florida, that took the lives of five people and seriously injured seven others.
A fishing boat carrying two NFL players and two other men capsized last month because it was improperly anchored, a Florida agency reported Friday.
A woman who died after she was hit by a spotted eagle ray leaping from the water off the Florida Keys suffered "multiple skull fractures and direct brain injury," a medical examiner said Friday.
A Florida Fish and Wildlife official says an eagle ray leaped from the water, struck a woman on a boat and killed her.
Florida officials investigate after a woman in a boat was hit in the head by an eagle ray and killed.
Ray Davis, senior vice president of zoological operations at the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta, talks about a ray accident.
A woman on a boat died after a spotted eagle ray leaped from the water off the Florida Keys Thursday and struck her, officials said.
A woman sunbathing on a boat died after a stingray leaped from the water off the Florida Keys on Thursday and struck her, officials said.
A 13-year-old boater was arrested Monday after authorities said he hit and killed a 6-year-old snorkeler, then sped away.
Attacks on humans by alligators, bears, mountain lions and other predators are extremely rare, but some wildlife experts say they could become more common as people and animals encroach on each others' habitats.
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