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NASA's unmanned Orion spacecraft has successfully splashed down about 400 miles west of La Paz, Mexico, in the Pacific Ocean after a liftoff, two orbits…

Five weeks after the departure of Joe Maddon, the Tampa Bay Rays have announced the hiring of Kevin Cash to be their next manager.Cash, 36, is a former…

Super Typhoon Hagupit is forecast to hit the Philippines this weekend, and a Sarasota disaster relief organization, ShelterBox, is preparing to help in…

Should the Florida Supreme Court or the state Legislature have the power to shift the burden of proof to a defendant or the state prosecutor in a Stand...

Protests against police brutality that have spread across the country reached Florida Friday night with events taking place in Tampa and Miami.While…

In this installment of StoryCorps Tampa Bay, 23-year-old Kalima Haneef remembers her grandmother, Najiyyah Shaheed, with her uncle Shalaby Shaheed. Her…

A spacecraft on its way to Pluto has just woken up from hibernation. By next month, scientists expect to have the first good pictures of the dwarf planet. All of the others have been, well, crummy.

Students who are the first in their family to attend college often have a more difficult time finishing their degree.Research shows those students know…

The water and sediment flow might have been massive enough to build a mountain, NASA researchers say.

Gov. Rick Scott could face sanctions over his use of a private email account now that a judge in Tallahassee has given the okay for an additional...

Taxpayers are on the hook for at least $307,000 and perhaps much more to cover legal expenses in Gov. Rick Scott's repeated failed efforts to convince…

Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn spoke Tuesday about the possibility of the Tampa Bay Rays exploring new stadium sites in Pinellas and Hillsborough…

Christian Ward lounges on a couch in the University of South Florida student center in Tampa. He props crutches against the armrest and stretches out...

Welcome to the first meeting of NPR's new book club! We're reading Hector Tobar's account of 33 men who were trapped for 69 days in a Chilean mine. Send us your questions; we may read them on-air.

Recent shootings around the country have left many reexamining police departments and policies. But they've also led to a renewed focus on personal...

Electronic cigarettes have surpassed traditional smoking in popularity among teens, the government’s annual drug use survey finds.Even as tobacco smoking…

WellCare Health Plans, Inc., Florida’s largest Medicaid HMO provider, announced Monday that Kenneth Burdick will be appointed as CEO, according to a...

Hundreds of inmate deaths with questionable circumstances have sparked a potential federal investigation into the state's corrections system. The U.S....

Gordon "Skip" Beadle has a prosthetic right leg, the tenth such device he’s depended on since the retired U.S. Marine was wounded during the Vietnam...

Florida's elder guardianship program is meant to help vulnerable elders. But Sarasota Herald-Tribune reporter Barbara Peters Smith recently published a...

There are differing reactions from Florida's two U.S. Senators on President Obama's announcement that he will ease the longtime U.S. embargo on…

The stalemate outlasted 10 U.S. presidents, a failed invasion, a nuclear crisis and countless boatloads of Cuban asylum seekers. The two countries are still trying to figure out the new relationship.

President Obama says the U.S. and Cuba will normalize relations, which were severed in 1961. Here are images that highlight the decades of tense relations.

Florida's largest power company can now get in the natural-gas production business with its customers' money.But it won't be able to use money from those…

On Thursday, the St. Petersburg City Council rejected by a 5-3 vote Mayor Rick Kriseman's proposed agreement with the Tampa Bay Rays that would have…