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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — An officer used a stun gun on a woman who resisted arrest after leaving her 7-month-old daughter in the car while she went into a tanning salon.

MARATHON, Fla. (AP) — A Florida Keys teen has admitted to police that bite marks on her body came from vampire role-playing and not an attack that she had previously reported.

BONITA SPRINGS, Fla. (AP) — A great horned owl that was struck by a vehicle on Interstate 75 in southwest Florida had to be euthanized because of the seriousness of its injuries.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Florida's last two remaining aircraft for use by state officials are gone.

LARGO, Fla. (AP) - A Tampa Bay-area man convicted of killing his wife after accidentally calling her cell phone and leaving a recording of the murder has been sentenced to life in prison.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Two Mediterranean fruit flies have been found during routine monitoring in South Florida.

MIAMI (AP) - Officials say one man was killed and another was wounded by a Miami police officer.

Authorities have arrested a South Florida man accused of shooting and wounding five people in December.

The Ford Motor Co. has informed NASCAR it would like to race the Mustang in the elite Sprint Cup Series beginning in 2013.

State Supreme Court Justice Barbara Pariente is frustrated by the slow progress of developing privacy protection rules as Florida moves toward electronic court records.