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I spotted this oh-so-Florida decoration on my neighbor's lawn in Brandon. I thought it was prime caption material -- and apparently, many of you agreed.…

Florida Gov. Rick Scott today, Dec. 12, 2012, will honor the Oviedo family of Green Beret Staff Sgt. Robert Miller. His name will be included in Florida's…

Rep. Bill Young of Pinellas County says he's open to voting for tax increases -- depending on what else is in the bill.“Any increased revenue has got to…

It's been two years since Hillsborough County's referendum on mass transit went down in flames. WUSF's Steve Newborn talks with Ray Chiaramonte, executive…

Department stores are mostly full of the same old stuff, so we went trolling online for some Florida-themed (read: kitschy) holiday gift ideas. Check out…

Changes are coming to Hillsborough County School District's Special Education department. It's under scrutiny after the deaths of two special ed students.…

USF St. Petersburg students got a little extra help dealing with the stress of Finals Week in the form of wet noses and fuzzy faces.Dogs from the Pinellas…

University of South Florida researchers announced earlier this week that they’ve found evidence of around 90 deaths and 50 gravesites at the defunct…

Charlie Crist made it official today: he's a Democrat. The former Republican governor and then independent candidate for Senate registered as a party…

Even as researchers unearth more information about what may lie under the ground of the Dozier School for Boys, the allegations of brutality that marked…

Kelley Benham and Tom French faced one of the most difficult decisions any parent would ever have to make: whether to allow their daughter to die or fight…

State Senate committee hearings tend to be long on detail, short on excitement. But Tuesday saw an impassioned debate between two high-profile health…

The Tampa socialite who exposed the affair of CIA Director David Petraeus, forcing him to resign, is calling upon Congress to restrict access to private…

What's 42 feet long by 22 feet high and has dozens of peoples and animals on it? The Greatest Show On Earth, a massive mural by William Woodward.It was…

States are now governed pretty much by one party or the other, which nearly as often as not enjoys supermajority status in legislatures, according to a report by the Pew Center on the States. That means individual states will be moving in different direction on everything from abortion to tax policy — and many are likely to resist laws set in Washington.

Lawrence Wright's Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood and the Prison of Belief looks at the world of the controversial church and the life of its founder, L. Ron Hubbard, who died in 1986.

Republicans in states that President Obama carried are looking at proposals to change the way Electoral College votes are given out. If these changes had been in place nationwide in November, Mitt Romney might have won.

The 2012 election will be remembered for revealing major demographic shifts among voters. That change was very apparent in the swing state of Florida.NPR…

During last summer's Republican National Convention, countless luminaries took to the stage of the Tampa Bay Times Forum: party nominee Mitt Romney, GOP…

Pity Florida's Office of Insurance Regulation. It finds itself 2 1/2 years behind on preparing for full implementation of the Patient Protection and

In his inaugural address, President Obama envisioned a nation where even "the poorest child knows she has the same chance to succeed as anyone else." But a new report finds that 44 percent of Americans do not have the savings to cover basic expenses for three months if they lose their income.

Most states require car owners to have liability insurance to cover damages their vehicles cause to others; some economists think we should require the same of gun owners.

Florida was a poster child for all the familiar excesses of the housing bubble -- the bad loans, the overheated market, the frenzied development. Although…

It's a somber day on Florida's east coast, as Kennedy Space Center holds a Day of Remembrance on the 10-year anniversary of the space shuttle Columbia…

Dr. Kiran Patel of Tampa, who already has two small but fast-growing Medicare HMOs, said he has offered to take over Universal Health Care, a…