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There’s a small but growing legal community in the U.S. that’s helping veterans with their benefits claims while working to improve the VA system. And…

Jaden Piner started acting because his grandma made him do it. She was preaching at church one Sunday and needed a visual element for her sermon. She...

Republican Joe Negron was sworn in as the new President of the Florida Senate last month and he recently laid out his priorities for education in the…

State Insurance Consumer Advocate Sha'Ron James is seeking to file a friend-of-the-court brief in a constitutional fight about a new law that forces...

Panhandle developer Jay Odom is bankrolling a Northeast Florida operation licensed by health officials to grow, process and distribute non-euphoric...

Medical marijuana is expected to be available in Florida by the end of next week after the state's Department of Health granted its first authorization...

The first organization authorized to dispense medical marijuana in Florida has made its first home delivery.

Florida's first charter school opened 20 years ago. Since then, enrollment in these publicly funded, privately run schools has exploded. Today, more than…

Late last fall, Dr. Christine Curry was at a faculty meeting with her colleagues when the conversation turned to new reports linking the Zika virus to a...

Battling claims about the upcoming referendum on medical marijuana are creating a cloud of confusion. So WUSF's Steve Newborn attempts to clear the air on…

I’m the health reporter here at WLRN, but a couple of weeks ago, I declined to go to a town hall meeting in Miami Beach about the city’s very new status...

Looking back, Ronnie Wyche said it’s easy to spot the red flags: Recruiters dodged his questions, rushed him through enrollment paperwork and brushed...

Determining whether people have been infected with the Zika virus can be difficult.

How much do you know really about your doctor? Maybe you’ve seen a framed diploma in her office, but do you know if she has a criminal record or was the...

Florida health care regulators are considering doing away with a rule limiting the number of trauma centers that can set up shop in each region.

A measure signed into law by President Obama includes money to help combat the Zika virus. Florida is expected to be one of the areas to get a large...

Lawyers representing seven Arizona Death Row inmates want information about the drugs used in Florida's lethal-injection procedure, but corrections...

In 2000, the Florida ballots of overseas service members were a key point of controversy in the Bush vs. Gore election. Now, 16 years later, little has…

When humans talk to dogs, the canine brains seem to separate the meaning of the words from the intonation used and to analyze each aspect independently.

These days, former Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Indianapolis Colts head coach Tony Dungy works as an analyst for "NBC Sports' Football Night in America." But…

According to NASA, the United States sees about 25 million lightning strikes per year.The state that gets the largest number of those, by far, is Florida.…

As Nov. 8 draws closer -- more and more ads, polls, and political pundits are defining what the election means. WUSF News is turning to you to learn the…

Even as the state prepares to carry out a constitutional amendment authorizing medical marijuana, a lack of guidance from health officials could create...

In a highly unusual move that heightened confusion in an already-murky legal arena, the Florida Supreme Court quickly rescinded an order Wednesday that...

The Florida Legislature is preparing its response to a state Supreme Court decision requiring unanimous jury decisions for the death penalty.