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Sara LaBarbera is teaching 6th graders at Walker Middle School near Tampa how to research poets using an online library.One student, working on a series…

The daughter of the Democratic political legend says she will run for Congress next year, taking on incumbent Republican Steve Southerland in a district that includes Tallahassee and part of Florida's panhandle

Florida Atlantic University's plan to sell its stadium naming rights for $6 million to the private prison company, GEO Group of Boca Raton, turned from a…

Someone has an anniversary today. But don't panic. It isn't you.Actually, it's all of us.Today marks Florida's 500th anniversary. On April 3, 1513,…

University of South Florida graduate and Fulbright Scholar winner Demelza Hays, who was profiled on WUSF's University Beat last year, recently traveled…

Florida’s Water and Land Legacy campaign is one step closer to getting a constitutional amendment to fund the Florida Forever land preservation program.On…

A quality-improvement project carried out by hospitals in Florida and four other large states triggered a rapid and dramatic drop in early elective…

This week volunteers led by the Homeless Coalition of Hillsborough County ventured into Tampa and Brandon to conduct a count of the homeless population…

The discovery of a hidden camera in the room of a brain-damaged veteran at the James A. Haley VA Medical Center last year has led to new legislation in…

It’s tax day – time to file your federal income taxes if you haven’t already.It’s also a reminder of the tax fraud scam that the Tampa Police Department…

State Rep. Mike Fasano of Pasco County went through the math of the House's health plan on Monday and showed how any family poor enough to qualify for it…

Florida is a state divided.You could draw a map illustrating factions based on our politics, our Cuban sandwich preferences or our favorite NFL teams.…

If you live in the Tampa Bay region and have a free Tuesday (April 16, 2013) evening, you’re invited to be a part of the welcome home crowd at the St.…

You've probably heard the statistic: For every dollar a man earns, a woman doing comparable work makes only 77 cents. That goes for full-time, year-round…

Surgeon General John Armstrong, who also functions as Secretary of the Florida Department of Health, will likely not win Senate confirmation this year,…

Last semester, USF St. Petersburg students stressed out by final exams got a chance to unwind with a visit from therapy dogs.With finals approaching once…

Florida is one of the top “hot spots” for homeless veterans making it the focus of VA officials who have the stated goal of ending veteran homelessness by…

After a massive Boston-area manhunt for the suspect in the marathon bombings, police closed in on a boat in a Watertown backyard where the 19-year-old was hiding. The dramatic resolution came shortly after police announced they did not believe the suspect was in the area.

A Florida native accidentally took the "best photo" of one of the Boston bombers, according to the FBI. The Tampa Bay Times reports that Jacksonville…

Not 24 hours after the FBI released images of two suspects in Monday's blasts, one of the suspects is dead and the other is still at large.

The House Appropriations Committee today passed HB 7169, a measure that creates a program called Florida Health Choices Plus, that will cover about…

Much has been made of the fact that the suspects in the Boston bombings are ethnic Chechens, with links to the volatile North Caucasus region of Russia. Russian reaction to the story, however, appears to be as complex as the region's turbulent history.

The bombing and its aftermath revealed a massive, highly coordinated homeland security apparatus that can organize a mass casualty disaster or lock down a major American city at a moment's notice. Or both.

As investigators wait to interview wounded Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the site of the two blasts is still being processed for evidence. Nearby, mourners and well-wishers have left a pile of flowers, notes and mementos in the days since the attack.

Surviving suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been charged with using a weapon of mass destruction to kill three people and wound more than 200 at the Boston Marathon.