Florida authorities have arrested a U.S. Secret Service agent and two other men on felony charges, saying they committed brutal beatings as part of a fraternity hazing ritual.

A judge in Miami has vacated the life sentence of a 55-year-old Black man who prosecutors said was wrongfully convicted because of mistaken identity in 1991.

Prosecutors say three people have been arrested on charges involving the theft of the identities of some of the victims of June’s deadly South Florida condominium collapse.

Officials say prosecutors in Florida will pursue a grand jury investigation into the deadly collapse of an oceanfront condominium building.

Florida prosecutors say they're pursuing hate crime charges against a South Florida doctor accused of attacking a Hispanic man at a supermarket.

HOMESTEAD, Fla. – Postal and law enforcement officials are investigating after four dozen mail-in ballots were found undelivered at a post office in Florida. Postal Service Office investigators said Saturday they found six completed ballots and 42 blank ballots among piles of undelivered mail in a post office near Homestead on the Florida peninsula’s southern tip. Video taken by a postal worker shows they had been sitting there for more than a week. Postal officials did not immediately respond to an email Saturday asking how the backlog occurred and if anyone is facing discipline. The investigation was launched Friday after Florida House Minority Leader Kionne McGhee tweeted video taken by a postal worker of the piles of undelivered mail.

MIAMI A Miami woman faked her sons abduction after trying to drown him twice, with witnesses rescuing the boy from a canal the first time, and the second attempt ending in the boys death, officials said Saturday. Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle said Patricia Ripley, 45, is facing attempted and premeditated murder charges and being held in jail with no bond. Then, Fernandez Rundle said, Ripley drove her son to another canal. Unfortunately when she took him to the second canal, and there was no one there, Fernandez Rundle said in an interview with The Associated Press. Fernandez Rundle also noted that because the boy was nonverbal, he could not have told his initial rescuers what had happened with his mother.

MIAMI A Miami woman faked her sons abduction after trying to drown him twice, with witnesses rescuing the boy from a canal the first time, and the second attempt ending in the boys death, officials said Saturday. Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle said Patricia Ripley, 45, is facing attempted and premeditated murder charges and being held in jail with no bond. Then, Fernandez Rundle said, Ripley drove her son to another canal. Unfortunately when she took him to the second canal, and there was no one there, Fernandez Rundle said in an interview with The Associated Press. Fernandez Rundle also noted that because the boy was nonverbal, he could not have told his initial rescuers what had happened with his mother.

Christopher Furlong/Getty ImagesMIAMI, Fla. - The Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office will no longer prosecute minor cases involving marijuana, and police there will now be required to confirm suspected marijuana in felony cases with lab testing. Our sister station, Local10.com, reports the decision was announced Thursday in a memo sent to law enforcement agencies. Smelling or observing what officers suspect is cannabis will no longer be sufficient to establish probable cause of actually being cannabis, according to the memo. Hemp, which is similar to marijuana but does not contain THC, became legal in Florida in July. "There is no way to visually or microscopically distinguish hemp from marijuana."