Leon County

Authorities say police in a Florida park fatally shot an armed woman who “ambushed” them as they were searching for a drug investigation suspect. The shooting happened at Tom Brown Park in Tallahassee at about 10:30 p.m. Thursday. The police department said Friday that officers responded to the park after receiving a report that the person they were looking for,...

Rocky Hanna publicly opposed the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law, once defied the governor’s order barring any school mask mandate, and criticized a DeSantis-backed plan that will pay for students to attend private school.

The president of the national teacher’s union visited South Florida, calling out Gov. Ron DeSantis and his education plan for the state. NBC 6’s Ari Odzer reports

Texas’ prison system has temporarily stopped transporting inmates as it investigates how a convicted murderer escaped from a bus last month and later killed a man and his four grandsons.

A convicted murderer on the run since escaping a prison bus after stabbing its driver on May 12 was shot dead late Thursday after he killed a family of five and stole their truck from a rural weekend cabin, a Texas prison system spokesman said.

Authorities on horseback used canines to search for a Texas inmate who escaped a prison transport bus after stabbing the driver in rural Leon County.

Killing of Jorge Diaz-Johnston, the brother of former Miami Mayor Manny Diaz.

An indictment was handed down Thursday in the killing of Jorge Diaz-Johnston, the brother of former Miami Mayor Manny Diaz who was the plaintiff in a historic same-sex marriage lawsuit. A circuit court in Leon County handed down the five count indictment against 37-year-old Steven Yinger, who faces charges including first-degree murder, tampering with evidence and grand theft. According to…