PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. — A West Palm Beach mom turned to WPTV as she seeks accountability in her son's death. Was the man who fatally shot Rolando Victorero "standing his ground" under Florida's self ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Prosecutors charged a white man with manslaughter Monday in the death of an unarmed black man whose videotaped shooting in a store parking lot has revived debate over ...

Someone cuts you off in traffic, nearly hits you, and waves a gun as he does it. Is it self-defense to follow him for nine miles? Is it justified, when he stops, gets out and yells don’t follow me — ...

PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. — Luis Resendizgama was 16 when Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office investigators say he shot and killed 33-year-old William Difonzo Jr. Now, the teen is free of criminal ...

Maria Florinda Rios Perez De Velasquez’s mistaken arrival at the wrong Indiana address Wednesday cost her her life. As the ...

Surface map for this weekend. Read full article: A St. Johns County mom helped kids escape a house fire that killed the family cat. Now they’re getting help to rebuild On November 2, 2025, SJSO ...

Florida was the first state to implement the stand-your-ground law in 2005, which allows people to use deadly or non-deadly force in self-defense. A local stand-your-ground case is happening right now ...

The Office of South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson said the state's "Stand Your Ground" law applied in the shooting case of Scott Spivey Wednesday. Under South Carolina’s Protection of Persons ...

Greg Hembree recalls having to call a staff meeting when South Carolina passed the law eliminating a person’s duty to retreat during a confrontation before using deadly force. “We had to talk about ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. (WSVN) - A judge is hearing the second day of arguments in the case of an officer involved in a shootout with armed robbers that left an innocent UPS delivery driver dead six ...

Gun control advocates say states need to rethink the laws. "Stand your ground laws," have proliferated around the country after they were first introduced in Florida in 2005, with proponents ...

How many people have to die before we take a hard look at the stand-your-ground defense in Texas? How long before the message gets out that this will-nilly shooting of people on your property is a bad ...