VERO BEACH, Fla. (KRON, AP) – A man who authorities say crashed his car into a Florida jail in order to visit some friends apparently got what he wanted. Indian River County Sheriff’s Office spokesman ...

A flakka drought has descended upon the good state of Florida, which is presumably horrendous news for anyone hoping to make it into headlines with a distinctly Floridian flakka freakout. After ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A year after it ravaged South Florida, flakka — the synthetic street drug known for causing psychotic outbursts — is virtually gone. The deaths. The hallucinating users. The ...

As in all years, you know that some pretty weird stuff went down in the Sunshine State in 2015. The majority of cases don’t involve people acting violently; instead, they tend to involve people making ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) – A South Florida woman has pleaded guilty in a federal case involving importation of the synthetic drug flakka from China. Court records show 22-year-old Jaime Nicole Lewis ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- It's a new drug. And it's a killer. Known on the street as "flakka," the synthetic concoction is hitting hard in Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio and other parts of the country.

A few years ago, a new synthetic drug called Flakka appeared in Florida. It wasn’t long before viral videos and sensationalized news reports of alleged Flakka overdoses started to spread across the ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) – One man ran naked through a Florida neighborhood, tried to have sex with a tree and told police he was the mythical god Thor. Another ran nude down a busy city street in ...

Just under 1% of American teenagers are knowingly using the synthetic drug flakka, according to new research. "The main finding was that less than 1% of high school seniors are estimated to have used ...

Just under 1% of American teenagers are knowingly using the synthetic drug flakka, according to new research. “The main finding was that less than 1% of high school seniors are estimated to have used ...