Blake Lively has been compared to a llama. The "Gossip Girl" star was horrified when a photographer told her she resembled the hairy, humped animal at the launch of luxury hotel W Fort Lauderdale in Florida on Friday.

The 21-year-old beauty was strutting down the red carpet in a slinky white gown and towering black heels when a paparazzo screamed at her to attract her attention.

Marcus Schrenker, the investment adviser who allegedly faked his death early this year, is expected to plead guilty on Friday in a Florida court for intentionally crashing his plane.

Schrenker, who owns three Indiana companies, was charged in January with making a false distress call, prompting the U.S. Coast Guard to act and military jets to be sent out, and willfully wrecking his plane.

A man described by friends as a consummate "Good Samaritan" was killed and decapitated Thursday by a homeless man who he took in off the streets.

Deputies in North Fort Myers, Fla. responded to a call at the home of Charles Buddy Rogers on Thursday, and came upon a brutal discovery. They found Roger's head near the front door of his apartment and his body sitting in a wheelchair inside the home.

State wildlife officials are asking for a hunting permit of sorts from the federal government in order to reduce the numbers of a slithering scourge that is threatening native wildlife in the Everglades.

Officials want the U.S. Department of Interior to allow hunting for Burmese pythons in the national park, where hunting is banned. Up to 150,000 of the reptiles, which are not indigenous to Florida, live in South Florida, according to state estimates.

South Dakota's south-central town of Winner literally became a winner on Wednesday as the sole winning ticket for the $232 million Powerball jackpot was sold in a convenience store there.

The winning ticket numbers are 5-6-12-16-21 with 7 as the Powerball number. Either the Ampride or Lil' Feller convenience store in the ranching and farming town of 2,800 sold the winning ticket, according to lottery officials. The seller of the winning ticket also gets a prize of $50,000.