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Apple Computer co-founder Steve Wozniak spoke Tuesday at the Sun Dome on the University of South Florida Tampa campus. While he isn't as famous as Apple's…

The president is directing Attorney General Jeff Sessions to propose ways to ban devices like the ones used in the 2017 Las Vegas shooting that accelerate the shooting rate of semi-automatic weapons.

Freshman cadets Peter Wang, Martin Duque and Alaina Petty were given the Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps' highest medal for heroism. Wang, 15, was also posthumously admitted to West Point.

Composer Michael Ippolito's early life in Florida was filled with music, in schools like Brandon's McLane Middle School. He says he was a little bit ahead…

Two Hillsborough County students and one from Manatee County have been arrested on felony charges of making verbal threats against their high…

A second gun-related bill has been postponed in the Florida Senate in the wake of last week’s mass shooting at a Parkland high school.

A state representative has apparently fired an aide who emailed a reporter a claim that two survivors of a South Florida school shooting were…

Peter Wang, a 15-year-old freshman at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School who spent the last moments of his life protecting other children, was buried...

A few days after the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, 16-year-old Aiden Edrich carried a bouquet of hydrangeas from Publix, still...

A 15-year-old student who was shot five times during last week's massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is credited with saving the lives of...

At the request of Florida's governor, mental health experts, educators and law enforcement professionals met Tuesday in Tallahassee at workshops...

Miami-Dade County’s school system wants an extra $30 million this year from Florida to better prepare classrooms for a mass-shooting era — with...

A group of law enforcement officials from across the state is looking into putting prevention methods in place to avoid another mass school shooting.

The parents of a Florida State University fraternity pledge who died in November are suing the fraternity and members they say caused his death.

As lawmakers consider proposals to limit opioid prescriptions, Gov. Rick Scott’s administration is taking steps to do the same in the Florida Medicaid...

Students who survived the Parkland school shooting prepared to flood the Capitol on Wednesday , pushing to ban the assault-style rifle used to kill 17...

Florida has received another reprieve in submitting its education plan to the federal government.Last week, the state requested a second extension citing…

Like a bear waking from hibernation, Major League Baseball teams are emerging from their cave-like dugouts to start a new season.Spring training is…

Students grappling with fear and frustration after last week's fatal school shooting staged peaceful protests mourning for victims and urging a ban on assault rifles.

The lawmakers voted 71-36 against opening up debate on the bill that would ban assault weapons and large-capacity magazines, leaving it in committees that aren't scheduled to meet during this session.

African-Americans and Latinos are twice as likely as whites to be denied traditional home loans in the Jacksonville area. That’s the takeaway from a...

Metal detectors at schools, better coordination between agencies and keeping guns out of the hands of people who are mentally ill were among the...

Former Florida congresswoman Corrine Brown has twice been rejected as she tries to delay her entry to prison.The 71-year-old Democrat was sentenced to…

The state’s lawmakers are hard at work in Tallahassee as the 2018 legislative session continues. This week on the latest edition of our monthly Florida…

Scientists say a North Atlantic right whale has made another appearance in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of NaplesThe Naples Daily News reports that…