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Floridians depend on cars to get just about anywhere. And getting to the doctor without one can be tough. Orlando resident David Williams knows this...

It’s a hit. Spectators cheer and volunteers help as a child with special needs runs toward first base, his baseball helmet bobbing loosely on his…

Kids fish off of a narrow dock in Manatee Pocket, casting lines into coffee-colored water untouched by the toxic algae bloom fouling the St. Lucie River...

The Florida Division of Emergency Management is urging residents and businesses from Tampa to Pensacola to prepare for heavy rainfall and flooding…

Next month, it will have been 15 years since the United States went to war in Afghanistan and then later, into Iraq. It’s estimated 2.5 million men and…

Just three weeks after hiring new head football coach Charlie Strong, the University of South Florida has fired men's basketball coach, Orlando…

Florida is making a database of medical procedures and the average price patients should expect to pay for them. Members of the House Health and Human...

With little comment, Gov. Rick Scott and the state Cabinet agreed Tuesday to spend more than $22 million to preserve three pieces of land covering 14,000…

Growing up in Florida’s foster care system, Victor Sims says he lacked the stability of a permanent home and supportive family.After being adopted at the…

Washington's ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley called on the U.N. Security Council to impose "the strongest possible measures" on Pyongyang after its latest nuclear weapon test.

Excess water from Hurricane Irma is still making its way through Florida, exacerbating the significant water management challenges the state's faced...

Also: The local prosecutor reportedly may seek the death penalty against Ariel Castro, and also might file charges for every day of kidnapping and every act of sexual violence, among other offenses.

A piece of Cuba was left in Downtown St. Peterburg Sunday. The "Afternoon in Havana" event was filled with salsa lessons from professional ballroom…

Captain Citrus was born in 2011 as a big, fat talking orange wearing a green cape. Now he's being transformed into a buff Marvel Comics superhero who...

The state is getting closer to its Florida Forever fundraising goal for the upcoming budget year, though environmentalists say the amount is not…

The Greenhouse in St. Petersburg helps grow entrepreneurs. Every Wednesday morning, a group called 1 Million Cups meets to give entrepreneurs the chance…

C.W. Bill Young, whose political career took him from the minority party in the Florida Senate to control of the U.S. House budget committee, died at 6:50…

As expected, Charlie Crist and Rick Scott have trounced their opposition in today's primaries.On the Democratic side, Crist captured 74 percent of the…

With a looming deadline, Florida legislators return to the state Capitol this week promising to do what they couldn't during the 60-day regular session...

Two inmates, Richard Matt and David Sweat, used power tools to cut through steel walls, slithered through a steam pipe and emerged on the outside through a manhole.

Tampa Lighthouse for the Blind will have an open house from 1 to 6 p.m. Friday, May 1, at their location at 1106 W. Platt Street in Tampa. See the map…

The number of abortions performed in Florida dropped by 10 percent between 2010 and 2014, but the decrease is less than in other Republican-led states...

This week, NPR has revealed that the U.S. military conducted chemical weapons experiments on American soldiers and sailors during World War II.It also…

The world's largest cruise company could be heading to Cuba.Starting in May, Carnival Corp. plans to offer trips from Miami to the Caribbean island…

House and Senate budget negotiators struck a deal on a state spending plan Monday night moments before the stroke of midnight, pouring $301 million into...