Accidents

• DeSoto named the most dangerous county in Florida for cyclists, averaging over 17 cyclists involved in a fatal collision per 100,000 people.

Eight boaters were rescued in two separate accidents after their boats overturned along Florida's Gulf Coast.

An aide to Gov. Rick Scott died Sunday night after the boat on which she was a passenger crashed into mangrove branches lining a narrow channel in...

A federal agency says Tampa Electric Company ignored its own rules when performing a dangerous maintenance job at one of its plants that left five...

In late June, five workers at TECO's Big Bend power station in Apollo Beach were gravely injured in an accident. Two died that day, three others later...

With three reported alligator bites in as many days in Southwest Florida, and state wildlife officials reporting a record pace of 16 such bites so far in…

Over the last two decades, more workers have died at Tampa Electric’s power plants than at those run by any other Florida utility.

A 30-year veteran of TECO and a Tampa contractor were killed in an accident Thursday at the Big Bend Power Plant in Apollo Beach. The explosion happened...

UPDATE: 11: 30 AM MondayThe Lee County Building Industry Association has issued a statement to members identifying the pilot of Saturday morning’s plane…

Walt Disney World plans to honor a Nebraska boy who was killed by an alligator at one of its resorts near Orlando with a sculpture of a lighthouse.