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Election Day is just weeks away and many of us are getting “robo” calls - computer generated telephone calls - asking for our vote or trying to help get…

Are you a military spouse looking for work or a veteran hoping to land a good job? The national campaign, Hiring Our Heroes, is holding a job fair…

Molesting or annoying the sea cows is a second-degree offense in Florida. Riding them is out of the question.

After a federal judge struck down in August a law that placed restrictions on third party organizations to register voters, a group of organizations came…

Medicare open enrollment season is around the corner, and lots of bargain plans are available to beneficiaries who shop around. But will they? Two-thirds…

We won't just get to elect the next president on the November ballot. In Florida, eleven amendments to the state constitution will be up for vote - and…

Gov. Mitt Romney started his campaign calling for big tax breaks for the middle class. Over time his goals for those breaks have expanded to maintaining the government's flow of income and creating jobs. In the end, will a middle-class tax cut still be possible?

Nancy Watkins’ accounting office on a leafy street in Tampa may be one of the scariest addresses in Florida — for Democrats.Inside, Watkins guides…

Due to an influx of voters in recent weeks, the Hillsborough County Supervisor of Elections Office plans to stay open an extra two hours Tuesday - October…

In less than a month Florida voters will help to decide who wins the Presidential election. The fate of 11 constitutional amendment proposals is also in…

The proposed Florida license plate will be easier to read in an effort to crack down on toll booth runners.Currently, state tags have raised letters and…

The Rays' baseball season may be over, but Tampa Bay residents still have a reason to flock to Tropicana Field this fall.Starting Nov. 8, the Trop parking…

Florida has registered its first fatality from the fungal meningitis outbreak linked to contaminated back-pain injections, the Department of Health…

Contrary to some University of South Florida football fans' wishes, Coach Skip Holtz will keep his job, despite USF losing four games in a row and 10 of…

One of the legends of Florida politics is gone. Sam Gibbons, who represented Tampa in Congress for more than 30 years, died this morning at the age of…

The StateImpact Florida reporting team covers education across the state by focusing on how the policies affect the individual students.

Analyzing 20 months' worth of blogs, news stories and story comments in Florida, Ohio and Virginia found that voters in the nation's swing states talk about unemployment in very particular ways. The findings could cast some light on what's driving the vote.

For all the attention on female voters, the gender gap is no less among white men. They voted in large numbers against Barack Obama four years ago, and are expected to do so again this year. At a motorcycle festival in Florida, some of these voters weigh in on the GOP ticket and the election.

Both the Romney and Obama campaigns agreed to a laundry list of rules for the debates. That "Memorandum of Understanding" is 21 pages long and covers everything from air conditioning to props. Whether the candidates obey the rules is another story.

Lynn University in Boca Raton, Fla., hosts the third and final presidential debate Monday. In the year since Lynn snagged the debate, its 2,000 students have watched a quiet campus turn into a hotbed of activity.

Back by popular demand! Play Bingo with your friends and family during the last Presidential debate on foreign policy at Lynn University.When Romney says…

President Obama and challenger Mitt Romney focus on foreign policy the last debate at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida.Join Brian Lehrer and the…

Florida's clemency board has made it harder for former felons to win back their voting rights.

Other takeaways from the debate that was ostensibly about foreign policy: domestic issues; Obama on the attack; a strong but calm Romney; and an appeal to the base.

Tampa Police say they've arrested a Hillsborough County school bus driver for aggravated child abuse.This afternoon the driver was taking special needs…