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Lawmakers are heading back to Tallahassee on June 1 for a three-week special session.The Florida Legislature was unable to agree on a single balanced…

The Obama administration says there’s no need for a judge to order mediation as Gov. Rick Scott requested because they’ve been engaged in ongoing...

Governor Rick Scott kicked off his “Jobs Jamboree” tour in Miami Monday, in lieu of traditional inaugural events. Instead of an inaugural ball or...

Floridians are heading to the polls on Tuesday where voters will decide which Democratic candidate they want to face president Donald Trump in November.…

The number of people who have tested positive for the coronavirus topped 1,000, according to the Sunday evening update from the Florida Department of…

The change is intended to ensure the safety of law enforcement, citizens and offenders.

Pinellas County businesses are being warned to follow recommendations designed to reduce the spread of coronavirus or they will be forced to…

More than 500,000 Floridians, or about a quarter of the 2.07 million who have requested mail-in ballots, have already cast votes in the March 17…

Leaders in Tampa’s black community want an overhaul of the city’s police oversight board. Activists say changes are long overdue. Tampa’s citizen review…

Don Shula, the steel-jawed son of Hungarian immigrants who rose from tiny Painesville, Ohio, to carve his name in professional football’s record books...

It would receive a greater share of money from the state's cigarette tax.

In a new anthology of baseball essays, sportswriter Stefan Fatsis celebrates his beloved, 31-year-old baseball glove. He talks to Robert Siegel about how he set out to find out about his mitt's history and what he learned along the way.

Babe Ruth gave the home run its status as a potent weapon in the game of baseball, the author of a new biography says. "Before [he] came along, the home run was kind of a mistake...," Leigh Montville says.

The story of Valentino Achak Deng, one of the tens of thousands of children refugees from the Sudanese civil war, is the basis for Dave Eggers' new novel, What Is the What. Eggers and Deng talk about their collaboration and the traumas the "Lost Boys" endured.

The average price of a gallon of gas in the greater Tampa Bay region is now $2.96 a gallon.

It's a condition similar to the "bends" that scuba divers can contract.

Record snow in parts of the Northeast left thousands without power.

The opening of an art exhibit at Arlington National Cemetery showing more than 1,300 portraits of U.S. military personnel killed in Afghanistan and Iraq brings together artists and families of the dead.

Roller coasters -- love 'em or hate 'em --- they have become the definitive attraction of theme parks worldwide, and can impress even the most sensitive stomachs among us.

While many or the nation's major orchestras continue to struggle financially, smaller community and regional orchestras are flourishing. Jeff Lunden profiles southern New Jersey's Bay-Atlantic Symphony.

The National Museum of Health and Medicine in D.C. is not for the squeamish. Founded in 1862, the museum displays everything from a large human hairball to skull fragments from Abraham Lincoln.

Ivanka Trump reacted to then-Attorney General William Barr saying that the 2020 election was not stolen.

Andrei Vasilevskiy had 33 saves to lead the Lightning, who have won two straight after dropping the first two games on the road.

In his book Under the Banner of Heaven, author Jon Krakauer examined the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and of fundamentalist splinter groups, who are not Mormons and who broke off from the church after it abandoned the practice of plural marriages. The book excerpt below looks at the history of the polygamous community in Colorado City, Ariz.

By one estimate, about a third of poll workers have quit since 2020, leading to a national shortage.