Putnam County Sheriff's Office

An out-of-state teen was arrested for allegedly falsely reporting a violent hostage situation in upstate New York last year, among other countrywide “swatting” incidents, according to Putnam County officials.

Authorities say a woman who was investigating the 2010 death of a Florida sheriff’s deputy’s girlfriend was fatally shot inside her condominium.

The Putnam County Sheriff’s Office says 23-year-old Taylor Fender walked away from a work crew Monday and headed into a restaurant just as a deputy was pulling into a parking spot.

Authorities say a Florida man was arrested after complaining to deputies that he might have been sold the wrong drug. The Putnam County Sheriff’s Office posted on Facebook that 49-year-old Douglas Peter Kelly was charged Tuesday with possession of methamphetamine.

Authorities say the body of a missing northeast Florida sheriff’s deputy who fell out of a boat on the St. Johns River has been located.

Authorities say a Florida gun rights supporter accidentally shot by her 4-year-old son remains hospitalized.

A northeast Florida woman whose 4-year-old son accidentally shot her in the back while they were traveling in her pickup truck is apparently a gun lover who made numerous social media postings about gun rights.

Sheriff’s investigators Wednesday were trying to determine how a 4-year-old boy had access to a gun he used to shoot his mother as she drove a pickup truck in north Florida.

The search for the owner of dozens of marijuana plants found on a Florida property ended when a man went to a sheriff’s office to complain that detectives had stolen the plants.

Police have arrested a north Florida woman in connection with a spree of chain saw thefts.

An arrest report says that an 11-year-old boy accused of strangling a 4-year-old boy at a north Florida mobile park has a history of disturbing behavior.