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A group of Florida doctors has been charging Medicare at a surprisingly high rate. A ProPublica investigation analyzed a recently released Medicare...

Three to six hurricanes are expected to form during the six-month season that begins June 1. That's below average, but NOAA officials emphasized a single storm can make for a bad year.

Also: Amazon has removed the "Buy" buttons from a number of Hachette titles; Hassan Blasim's short story collection The Iraqi Christhas won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.

It's been said that in Florida, any building that's more than 30 years old is well, old, and worthy of being torn down for something new and shiny. That…

The interim CEO of WellCare Health Plans says he’s trying to move past the company’s troubles and focus on expanding its Medicare, Medicaid and...

Have you ever been interested on what goes into that morning cup coffee? You can find out tonight at the South Florida Museum in Bradenton. Coffee has…

Twenty-two-year old Elliot Roger killed six people in a rampage in Santa Barbara, California.It was a rampage predicted by a series of YouTube videos and…

A state Republican staffer, tagged as a "genius map drawer," denied discussing or sharing proposed new district lines in 2011 with national GOP officials,…

Two synthetic marijuana products -- identified as "Scooby Snax" and "Purple Flake" -- have sent more than two dozen people to the hospital in...

Without the public ceremony of past years, Gov. Rick Scott on Monday quietly signed into law a $77 billion, election-year budget, slashing just $68.9…

People are less likely to seek shelter or otherwise prepare for storms given female names, researchers say. As a result, such storms result in nearly twice as many deaths as those with male names.

Among the big winners in the 2014-15 state budget signed by Gov. Rick Scott on Monday is the University of South Florida, which picked up funding for a…

The federal government is proposing that Florida cut its carbon dioxide emissions from power plants by 38 percent by the year 2030.The U.S. Environmental…

This Friday will mark the 70th anniversary of D-Day, the historic military landing at Normandy during World War II. This week on Florida Matters, we'll…

Even though she's relatively new to the research world, Crystina Bronk knows there's a not-so-complementary - but partially true - stereotype about her…

After a weekend scare, in which more than two dozen people were treated at UF Health Shands Hospital in Gainesville, the threat from a bad batch of...

Governor Rick Scott has about two weeks to act on more than a 100 bills delivered to his desk Thursday. They include a bill granting in-state tuition...

Calling him “a menace to society,” the Florida Board of Medicine rejected the Department of Health’s proposed settlement to allow Dr. Ronald Wheeler to...

A few years ago, the directors of the St. Petersburg Museum of Fine Arts and the Tampa Museum of Art decided they wanted to collaborate on something.…

During its meeting Friday in Tampa, the Florida Board of Medicine issued fines and penalties against Hillsborough County physician Betty Jo Carter, for...

New York Times Columnist Maureen Dowd was in the state of Colorado a while back, a state that has legalized the recreational use of marijuana.She decided…

Florida students living in the country illegally will be allowed to qualify for in-state college tuition rates under a bill signed into law by Gov. Rick…

When Jonathan De Leon left his home state of New Jersey to teach at North Miami Middle School in 2007, he immediately saw possibility — both in the school…

An internal audit of the 731 Department of Veterans Affairs medical centers nationwide was released today and four Florida facilities made the list…

With Hispanic voters likely to play a key role in the 2014 elections, Gov. Rick Scott signed a bill Monday allowing some undocumented immigrants to pay…