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A record number of homeless students are attending Florida Schools according to new numbers out from the U.S. Department of Education. Almost 70,000...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has a new ally in its graphic anti-smoking campaign. Even though the CDC's “Tips from Former Smokers”...

Jordan Davis leaned back and cowered in the moments before his death.That’s the picture Assistant State Attorney John Guy painted before jurors on the…

A Lakeland eye clinic and Michigan funeral home on Thursday became the subject of the first federal lawsuits to protect transgender people in the...

Long-sought regulations on Florida's commercial parasailing industry, along with a measure about crimes against unborn children, are among 32 laws that go…

Department of Corrections Secretary Mike Crews is threatening to stop payments to a Missouri-based company that won a five-year, $1.2 billion contract...

Jose Manuel Godinez-Samperio came to the United States with his parents when he was 9 years old.His parents overstayed their visas, and he lived the…

A 21-year-old southwest Florida pedestrian was seriously injured when she was struck by an ambulance. Sheriff's officials say Kimberley Nicole Tate was...

The American Civil Liberties Union has filed federal complaints against school districts in Broward, Hernando, Hillsborough and Volusia counties over the…

Republican lawmakers in Florida and Texas snubbed the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion for adults, but their states did broaden the program this...

Gov. Rick Scott's staff nearly reached a multi-billion dollar deal with the Seminole Indian tribe that would have allowed it to add roulette and craps at…

Former Florida Lieutenant Governor Jennifer says writing an autobiography on her life leading up to the events of her resignation was both therapeutic...

The Florida Board of Education’s new budget request promotes Governor Rick Scott’s pledge for record funding of K-12 public schools. If it’s approved by...

Stricter regulations in the state’s compounding pharmacy industry take effect Wednesday -- two years after a national outbreak of fungal meningitis...

Sometimes the best partnerships are the ones made out of mutual need – take the new arrangement between USF Sarasota-Manatee and the Resort at Longboat…

Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Charlie Crist kicked-off his ten-day “Kitchen Table Tour” Monday. Crist is traveling the state talking to middle...

USF's School of Public Affairs and Nielsen's latest results on their annual Sunshine State Survey was released today, asking how Floridians feel about…

Whistleblowers at a North Florida prison were punished by their bosses after exposing abuse of inmates, including an instance where one guard sprayed…

Ebola has come to the United States. And, with the Ebola diagnosis of a man in Dallas who had traveled to this country from Africa, the frightening Ebola…

Gov. Rick Scott says Florida officials continue to work with health care providers and the Center for Disease Control in an effort to prepare Florida...

Former Orlando Health patients may have to help repay the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services after a federal audit discovered the hospital...

A Jacksonville law firm has created a firestorm in the already heated debate about whether Floridians should allow doctors to order medical marijuana for…

You seldom use the word "lucky" to describe a plane crash, but a pair of men picked a fortunate place to crash their sea plane Monday morning.The…

This is a three-part radio series produced in partnership with The Florida Center for Investigative Reporting. Florida has gone through some big changes...

A "whistleblower" lawsuit by the state's former long-term care ombudsman was settled last week through mediation.Brian Lee, who held the ombudsman post…