Outdoor space: Directly behind the main house is an in-ground swimming pool surrounded by a stone patio. The guesthouse, known as the Boathouse, has its own kitchen, and the other house, known as the Gate House, has two bedrooms and its own driveway. A detached garage holds two cars.

In the second of two lawsuits challenging practices at the facility known as “Alligator Alcatraz,” civil rights attorneys sought a preliminary injunction to ensure that detainees at the facility have confidential access to their lawyers, which they say hasn’t happened. Florida officials dispute that claim.

A central Florida woman is suing a dairy farm and grocery store for allegedly selling raw milk that hospitalized both her and her toddler and also led to the death of her unborn baby. Rachel Maddox of Seminole County said in the lawsuit filed Aug.

The Florida Department of Health said this month that Keely Farms Dairy, a farm in New Smyrna Beach, was tied to 21 infections from raw milk consumption.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration asked Walmart to pull three lots of Great Value brand frozen shrimp from stores after federal officials detected Cesium-137, a radioactive isotope, in shipping containers and a sample of breaded shrimp imported from Indonesia.

The elusive rainbow snake is a nonvenomous species, whose population has declined in recent decades, according to the wildlife commission.

In his sophomore season, the signal-caller will try to lead Florida to its first College Football Playoff appearance.

What do you do when getting some R & R at a Florida beach town? Hit the beach, of course. But a new shop on Anna Maria Island, near Bradenton on Florida’s Gulf Coast, might bring you inside for a bit. Who can resist chocolate as it spins on a wheel? Or the taffy stretched on a machine that was built in 1910.