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The Fed boosted a key interest rate again — its seventh hike since 2015. The move, which was expected, will trigger higher rates on credit cards, home equity lines and other kinds of borrowing.

Florida is one of only three states that allows prosecutors to have the only say if a juvenile suspect is tried as an adult.The American Civil Liberties…

Gov. Rick Scott's mandate that all assisted living facilities have generators and 96 hours of backup fuel will cost the industry about $280 million,...

December is a month of religious celebrations – there’s Chanukah and Christmas. It’s also a time when many service members are stationed far away from…

Gov. Rick Scott last year bragged that the Trump administration had agreed to steer $1.5 billion in supplemental Medicaid funding to the state, saying...

Medicaid managed care plans are no longer on the chopping block.

Neglected for nearly a decade, the Florida Forever conservation program would get $100.8 million in a proposed $88.7 billion budget that lawmakers are…

Executive Director Richard Russell knows the Sarasota Opera from the inside out, having served as an opera apprentice, in the chorus and then as a…

Much of what is in the materials has been previously reported, but their release offers the most detailed looks so far into his claim that he acted in self defense. He writes that "in fear for my life," he shot the teenager.

The six-month extension of Temporary Protected Status for Haitians began over the weekend, and ends in January of 2018.

Rejecting arguments that Florida's Sunshine Law was violated, an appeals court Tuesday upheld a 14.5 percent increase in workers' compensation insurance...

Funeral services were held today for U.S. Rep. Bill Young, who died last week after 43 years in Congress.Several hundred people gathered at the First…

Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam calls citrus greening "as bad a situation as it could possible be for Florida signature crop." That's why the state's…

WUSF News has embarked on a new storytelling mission called "Telling Tampa Bay Stories," where our journalists will be visiting some of the region’s…

Free orange juice will continue to be available to travelers at Florida welcome centers as the state Department of Citrus squeezes staff to help the…

With a slogan of "Like class...but way better," the orchestra is working with USF School of Music students, visiting patients at the Moffitt Cancer Center, and sharing classical music with the public at a concert Thursday evening.

Alligators have been used as shoes, briefcases, university mascots, lunch and now, authorities say, a deadly weapon.Joshua James, 24, was arrested Monday…

Floridians planning a long day trip for the Memorial Day holiday can breathe a little easier.AAA, the auto club, released a report estimating that…

A deal on the state's public-safety budget that lawmakers reached late Friday would not give the Department of Corrections the 734 additional positions ...

Electrical outages during recent hurricanes have many homeowners investing in portable generators which have become more affordable and available to…

Gov. Rick Scott asked federal officials Friday to add Florida airports to the list of the five around the country that have stepped up security to monitor…

"I want him to suffer," Onil Castro tells CNN about his brother Ariel, who is accused of kidnapping three young women and holding them captive in his home for about a decade. Onil and Pedro Castro, another brother, say they knew nothing about what was allegedly happening inside their brother's home.

Update, 10 p.m. 8/26/14: With some precincts yet to report, Detzner says he believes more voters cast ballots early and absentee than on Election Day....

Weather permitting, on Wednesday morning you'll be able to see the second lunar eclipse visible in North America in a series of four that runs through next year.

Who stole the American Dream? That's the title of Pulitzer-Prize winning reporter Hedrick Smith's latest book.The man who helped publish the Pentagon…