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Florida could gain a badly-needed economic boost and thousands of new jobs each year if state officials accept federal funds to expand Medicaid, three new…

Eleven people were killed and one of the largest environmental disasters in history happened after an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico exploded in 2010.

A University of South Florida professor is one of just four recipients of what's considered one of the nation's highest honors for undergraduate…

Volunteers led by the non-profit environmental group Tampa Bay Watch shoveled, bagged, and moved fourteen tons of fossilized shells to Schultz Nature…

Charlie Crist can describe Barack Obama in four words: "He's the real deal."Crist made the remark Thursday in Oldsmar during an awards banquet for the…

The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office says 13-year old Andrea Bower was running late this morning to catch the bus to take her to Giunta Middle School…

The high-profile scandals involving Generals David Petraeus and John Allen revolve around questions of infidelity. If either is proven to be an adulterer…

Gov. Rick Scott has requested a meeting with Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to discuss creating a health-insurance exchange that…

Don Gaetz, who will be installed as president of the Florida Senate on Tuesday, said he will appoint a "select committee" to study how to implement the…

What did former CIA director David Petraeus and Gen. John Allen have to do with Tampa Socialite Jill Kelley's twin sister Natalie Khawam?Well, they both…

Ok, so we may be the butt of jokes nationwide, what with the five days it took to count all the votes down to the Jill Kelley-General Petraeus sitcom. But…

Two weeks after Election Day, it appears the partisan makeup of the new House of Representatives will be 234 Republicans and 201 Democrats, although the outcome is not yet official in two states. That would be a gain of eight seats for the minority Democrats.

Howard Miller spent his childhood at his grandparents' hotel in St. Petersburg, rowing out to the small mangrove island just offshore to see the local…

USF may soon be on the hunt for a new athletic conference to play in if just one more team defects from the Big East, according to the Providence…

Each year, Lego turns out 19 billion plastic bricks, figures and gears for building things. But sometimes it seems even 19 billion isn't enough. Seattle-area resident Will Chapman wanted more, so he started making Lego-compatible parts — including World War II weapons.

One of the nation's largest health insurers has been shown the door by BayCare Health System, Tampa Bay's dominant non-profit hospital chain.The dispute…

Key Republicans, including House Speaker John Boehner, say it's time to find common ground in revising the nation's immigration laws, but conservatives in the House could be a firewall against a bipartisan deal.

For the first time since the Great Recession, incomes are up in every major U.S. metropolitan area – including Tampa Bay.That’s according to figures…

Thousands of UnitedHealthcare's Medicare Advantage members spent Monday looking for new coverage in order to keep their doctors after BayCare Health…

Sarasota police were accused today of going on "bum hunts" against the city's surging homeless population. The American Civil Liberties Union is suing the…

There's a photo being circulated in a chain email that shows Trayvon Martin was a lot more 'gangsta' than we've been led to believe.He's much older and…

2016 is a long way off, but The New Republic's Ed Kilgore thinks many Republican governors made the decision to reject Medicaid expansions under Obamacare with their eyes firmly set on the White House.

Julian Castro, the high-achieving and young mayor of San Antonio, will become the first Hispanic American to give the keynote address at a Democratic convention.

The decision over replacing the iconic upside-down pyramid on St. Petersburg's waterfront won't go before the voters. The city council today voted down a…

From June 2011 to June 2012, Tampa Bay's unemployment rate dropped from 11.2 percent to 9 percent, according to new Labor Department figures.That decrease…