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State officials will step up enforcement Nov. 1 to prevent the harvest and sale of undersize oysters from Northwest Florida's Apalachicola Bay, as efforts…

Before each feature film at the Cannes Film Festival, an enchanting piece of music from Camille Saint-Saen's Carnival of the Animals, plays. For me, it…

In 2000, the Florida ballots of overseas service members were a key point of controversy in the Bush vs. Gore election. Now, 16 years later, little has…

President Donald Trump is likely to announce the end of a program that extends legal protections to people who were brought into the U.S. illegally as...

Consumers who want to enroll in Obamacare for 2018 will have less help and a shorter time to do it.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is now being held at a federal facility outside Boston where he can be treated for his injuries. Some victims of the Boston Marathon bombings, and their families, had been upset that he was in the same hospital as people who had been injured by the blasts.

The NAACP Legal Defense Fund has said it will push for a civil rights case against George Zimmerman, who was acquitted in the fatal shooting of black teen Trayvon Martin.

How much can someone's face affect the sentence he receives in court? A lot, according to a study that asked people to rate the trustworthiness of convicted murderers based on their mugshots.

The FWC approved draft rules in July that would change the listing for “conditional” species, like Burmese pythons and Nile monitor lizards, to "prohibited."

The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Friday forecast a 15 percent decline in orange production for the recently started growing season as compared to the last harvest

Teachers get money from the state to spend on their classrooms — but some pandemic must-haves are off limits.

The Florida House Education Committee will hear a bill Wednesday that would merge the state’s two smallest and youngest public universities with its two…

Love it or hate it, Daylight Saving Time will be back this weekend. It's a time when we can all look forward to the bleary-eyed week after we "spring…

Around the world, people are experimenting with new ways of expressing friendliness — without touching skin.

As Florida's Legislature finishes its work in the Capitol, efforts fizzled that seemed promising just weeks ago to reduce prison sentences for non-violent…

An organization representing immigration attorneys is suing the Trump administration, saying it puts lawyers and immigrants at risk by not relaxing legal…

January was a deadly month for inmates in Oregon prisons, with 20 coronavirus-related deaths. A lawsuit has been filed alleging poor conditions and "willful indifference" by the state.

A school in Utah that allowed parents to opt out of Black History Month curriculum is now backpedaling as activists demand change.

For years, veterans have been targeted by online schools offering what can be worthless degrees. Vets hope a provision tucked inside the new COVID-19 relief bill will finally address the problem.

The ride-hailing company expects to include a human in case something goes wrong, but the driverless vehicles would be the first available for commercial use. They could be on the road in a few weeks.

It's been nearly a year since the coronavirus pandemic began. NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro asked people to share the moment they realized COVID-19 was changing their lives.

Florida is the latest state to consider a law targeting transgender athletes. The measure would require athletes to compete in school sports according to their sex assigned at birth.

Ramiro Lobo's students speak English as a second language. During the pandemic, the Oakland, Calif., tutor has helped them navigate remote learning while trying to make them feel less isolated.

Past proposals failed because of concerns by Republicans that they could be viewed as increasing taxes on consumers.

The bill would measure whether “competing ideas and perspectives” are fairly presented and encouraged during class lectures.