What do you do if you’re Joakim Noah? Do you strike while you’re the hottest thing in college basketball and become the No. 1 pick in the NBA?

The 400-pound American alligator named Spike at the Phoenix Herpetological Society will be leaving shortly for a new life at a preserve in Florida.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Florida linebacker Brandon Spikes remembers dancing on the Orange Bowl logo, passing around the national championship trophy for teammates and coaches to hoist high into the Miami sky and then partying long into the night.

Earl Simmons, the rapper better known as DMX, has been arrested in Miami, Fla. by the FBI, one day after the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office issued a warrant for his arrest.

Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano is again hitting the road to campaign for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.

DAVIE, Fla. - Hillary Rodham Clinton won the Florida Democratic primary Tuesday night, an event that drew no campaigning by any of her presidential rivals and awarded no delegates to the winner.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - With all of Florida under a freeze warning, citrus and other farmers prepared Wednesday for possibly damaging temperatures into the teens and 20s.

ATLANTA - A long, tough season ended with a Gator chomp again. Mission accomplished for Florida. The Gators were too much to handle once again Monday night, keeping their stranglehold on the college basketball world with an 84-75 victory over Ohio State for their second straight national championship.

LADY LAKE, Fla. - Displaced residents slept in shelters and officials enacted curfews after violent thunderstorms, including at least one tornado, left a swath of central Florida in shambles and killed 19 people or more.

KEY WEST, Fla. - Forecasters from the National Hurricane Center extended a hurricane watch for the southern tip of Florida's peninsula as Tropical Storm Ernesto grew closer Monday.

SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — Before Wednesday's game, Boynton Beach, Fla. pitcher Michael Broad didn't seem impressed with the three home run game Chandler National slugger Cory Bernard had the night before against Eldridge, Ohio.

The Coyotes gave their lineup a major boost of offense on Friday, acquiring 30-goal scorer Olli Jokinen from the Florida Panthers for defensemen Keith Ballard and Nick Boynton and the 49th pick in this year's draft.

The headline on Arizona State’s basketball release for today’s game against Xavier says this:

The Sheraton Wild Horse Pass Resort on the Gila River Indian Community filled nearly 500 room nights this month with two hastily scheduled meetings chased out of Florida by hurricanes.

CHICAGO  -- Immigrant rights activists are outside Wrigley Field, saying the Cubs should move their spring training facility out of Arizona.

The Boeing Co. said Monday it will move an aircraft repair operation from Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport to Florida, which will involve a transfer of about 60 jobs.