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Update Monday 2:00 PM ET: The tropical wave over the eastern Caribbean Sea is moving slowly west-northwestward and it’s not becoming better organized...

Heading into a critical election year, Florida legislators may have to tighten spending because of a combination of a slowing economy and reverberations…

Even with no presidential candidate in sight at their state convention on Saturday, Florida Democratic leaders said grassroots party members are energized…

On their first date, Tom Gasko and his husband, Donnie Pedrola, talked for hours about vacuum designs. "Most people aren't that passionate about something," Pedrola tells Gasko at StoryCorps.

The Florida Department of Corrections is asking state legislators to increase its budget so it can address long-standing issues with the treatment of...

A short-lived tropical depression is likely to form over the Gulf of Mexico Friday, before merging with an approaching front this weekend. The system is...

Gun deaths worldwide total about 250,000 yearly and the United States is among just six countries that make up half of those fatalities, a study found.

In a case that started with an altercation at a Jacksonville Beach bar, the Florida Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that a car could be considered a ...

All three of the flu outbreaks that have been reported in Florida so far this season occurred in Hillsborough County, according to the state.

McCovey was known as one of the most powerful left-handed batters in baseball and is tied for 20th on the all-time home run list.

During his 27-year tenure as president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), Freeman Hrabowski III has helped convert the school into…

Gaps in commercial building permit records and inaccurate charges are among some of the findings in an audit of Pasco County’s Central Permitting…

A Tampa lawmaker has proposed a federal bill that would restore millions of dollars in funding taken from a group that helps sign people up for health…

Enrollment for the upcoming fall semester is expected to be down at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg, and a variety of factors, including…

One in three women and one in six men in the United States experience some form of contact sexual violence in their lifetime, according to the Centers for…

WUSF News is looking for student journalists ready for the opportunity to work in a professional newsroom. We're taking applications for a number of…

The most people ever have tested positive for the coronavirus statewide, as well as in the greater Tampa Bay region and three local counties, since Wednesday.

The counties were taking reservations by phone after websites crashed Tuesday but stopped after all time slots were filled by the afternoon.

For the fourth straight day, the number of people in Florida testing positive for the coronavirus was more than 11,500.

The United Kingdom embarked on its mass coronavirus vaccination campaign on Monday. The person who received the first dose is 90-year-old Margaret Keenan.

The positivity rate of people who tested positive for the coronavirus for the first time dropped to 8.63%, the lowest it's been since Dec. 27 when it was 9.69%.

The St. Petersburg MLK Day Parade is going virtual this year due to COVID-19.

With some students in Chicago returning to schools for in-person learning and many more scheduled to start soon, some teachers and parents are balking at the move, fearing it's still not safe.

Monk has spent four decades challenging audiences and winning awards with her unusual fusion of song, theater, dance and film. Lately, she's begun to consider how her work will last after she's gone.

The extremists are calmly milling about the Capitol grounds, despite the D.C. curfew in effect. The relatively peaceful dispersal is in stark contrast with response to the summer's BLM protests.