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Robert Zimmerman, Jr., tells NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday that it will be a "long time" before his brother is able to return to a normal life.

The state has turned down a request by USF researchers to allow them to exhume bodies at the Boot Hill Cemetery at the former Arthur G. Dozier School in…

The verdict in the Travyon Martin case is reverberating at the annual gathering of Delta Sigma Theta, a prominent service sorority that has long focused on African-American civil rights.

George Zimmerman didn't invoke the stand your ground law in his trial, but in Florida and elsewhere similar self-defense measures are expected to come under heightened scrutiny.

Officials with the Hillsborough County Health Department confirmed that a University of South Florida student has tuberculosis, the Tampa Bay Times…

City University of New York had initially offered the former CIA director $200,000 to teach a course and deliver two lectures.

In the wake of the George Zimmerman trial, an NPR producer reflects on the time and energy he has lost trying to avoid being seen as a threatening black man.

"It's time to question laws that senselessly expand the concept of self-defense and sow dangerous conflict in our neighborhoods," the attorney general said Tuesday. Such a law hovered over the trial of George Zimmerman for the death of Trayvon Martin.

The jurors said the death of a teenager "weighed heavily on our hearts." But they did what the "law required."

Both leaders of Florida’s legislative chambers are asking Education Commissioner Tony Bennett to withdraw from a coalition of states developing a new…

More than 550 wheelchair athletes are in Tampa for the 33rd National Veterans Wheelchair Games. Under the Americans with Disabilities Act, public places…

After a British newspaper wrote that the man who helped rescue three young women from captivity is now having trouble getting by, he told other news outlets that such tales aren't true.

After weeks of bruising attacks on the Affordable Care Act by House Republicans and other opponents, Democrats Thursday retaliated with a one-two…

In extensive and personal comments about the Florida teen's death and the trial that just concluded with a not guilty verdict for the man who fired the fatal shot, the president urged Americans to consider why African-Americans have reacted so strongly.

President Obama's statement Friday in the White House briefing room, where he made an unscheduled appearance and talked about the Trayvon Martin shooting death and last week's acquittal of George Zimmerman. "I did want to just talk a little bit about context and how people have responded," he said.

Since the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the killing of Trayvon Marton, there's been a renewed call to repeal Florida's stand your ground self-defense law. But despite some talk of boycotts that could hurt Florida's economy, Gov. Rick Scott says he won't ask the Legislature to revisit the law.

U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio held a press conference at Gatorland, an Orlando tourist attraction, on Friday to denounce the Affordable Care Act for putting the…

Milwaukee Brewers slugger Ryan Braun has been suspended for the rest of the season for the use of performance-enhancing drugs he reportedly obtained at…

Lakeland city officials held a public forum Monday night to discuss complaints about improper searches, botched criminal cases and a sex scandal involving…

It's a mostly sunny economic forecast for Florida for the next three years, boosted by a strong housing market recovery. That's according to a quarterly…

It's hard to find anyone who thinks President Barack Obama's series of heavily promoted economic speeches will be the flash point that unclogs the system…

Since the Affordable Care Act was signed, most state governments have made the most of the federal grants flowing from Washington for health-system…

How do parents of adult children deal with the stress and uncertainty when their child volunteers to go off to war?Jean Cicero is married to a police…

A new study drives the point home: When it comes to operating motor vehicles, Tampa ranks fourth worst out of 39 cities, according to Slate.The rankings…

Police say after negotiations fell apart, a SWAT team stormed the building and fatally shot the suspect.