The 2017 season produced the seventh highest ACE total, dating back 166 years. With an ACE total of 223.12, this season was about double the intensity of the normal season median of 110.5.

Despite Hurricane Irma, Florida saw a record number of tourists in 2017. The state had 116.5 million visitors last year, up from 112.8 million in 2016.

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A Florida man pleaded guilty to randomly shooting four people in a 2017 killing rampage. The killings terrorized the Tampa neighborhood where they occurred for weeks.

Florida was one of five states (along with Texas, California, Arizona, and New York) that accounted for 43 percent of all walking deaths through the first six months of 2017.

State legislators filed about 1,900 bills in the 2017 session. Only 12.6 percent, or 234 bills, were passed by both the House and Senate chambers.

The Florida Legislature begins its 60-day session this week divided on many issues, with Republican leaders clashing over health care, gambling, incentive programs and a reservoir to help control ...

A Florida man has pleaded guilty to randomly shooting four people in a 2017 killing rampage that set a Tampa neighborhood on edge for weeks. Howell Donaldson III entered the guilty pleas to four ...

Howell Donaldson III stands in the Hillsborough Courthouse on Monday, May 1, 2023, in Tampa. The Florida man pleaded guilty to randomly shooting four people in a 2017 killing rampage that set a ...