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Stephanie ColombiniIn the first part of our series Growing Up With Guns, we look at Hillsborough’s Youth Gun Offender program. It's tackling crime by offering teens mentorship, education and mental health services. -
Ash Ponders/KFF Health News (left image)The FDA and the manufacturer were alerted to Profemur titanium hips breaking inside patients as of 2005. It took 15 years to recall the devices. Many fractures could have been avoided.
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As a 21-year-old faces gun charges in the Oct. 29 shootings, police announced law enforcement agencies are offering additional rewards for information leading to arrests. -
Sarasota police have recovered video of Florida's GOP chair and his alleged victim in a rape investigation.
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In an interview, Maya Kowalski talks about her landmark legal victory against Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital. The case had been profiled in a Netflix documentary.
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A teenager being held on gun charges in relation to the Oct. 29 shooting that killed two and injured 16 now faces an adult count of second-degree murder.
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A lawyer for a suspended Florida prosecutor told the state Supreme Court that Gov. Ron DeSantis exceeded his authority when he removed a Democratic state attorney from her elected office.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis’ appointees to Walt Disney World’s governing district have released a series of reports justifying their takeover of the government and accusing their Disney-controlled predecessors of being a part of “the most egregious exhibition of corporate cronyism in modern American history.”
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Attorneys for the family of a Black man fatally shot by a Georgia deputy during a traffic stop are demanding $16 million in restitution from the sheriff's office. 53-year-old Leonard Cure had previously spent 16 years in a Florida prison for a crime he didn't commit.
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Lawyers and family members of three Black people who were fatally shot during a racially motivated attack at a Jacksonville Dollar General blamed the national chain for not providing security to protect customers and employees.
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The hearing had been scheduled for Tuesday, but U.S. District Judge Marcia Morales Howard approved a continuance until Dec. 13 because the state’s lead lawyer was diagnosed this weekend with pneumonia.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis and legislative leaders late Friday urged the Florida Supreme Court to reject a challenge to a deal that allowed the Seminole Tribe to offer online sports betting statewide, saying it does not violate a 2018 constitutional amendment that restricted casino gambling.
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One law partner said the court’s ruling on Marsy's Law was broader than what media and civil liberties groups had expected.
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An appeals court upheld the map, which plaintiffs say violated part of the constitutional amendment that barred drawing districts that would “diminish” the ability of minorities to “elect representatives of their choice.”
