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The University of South Florida and a trio of WUSF reporters are being honored for their work in response to the BP Gulf oil spill in 2010.A team of USF…

Under the health care overhaul, many people who find their job-based health coverage too expensive can get help buying insurance through exchanges. But rules just finalized by the Internal Revenue Service will limit who is eligible for a subsidy and could leave some families shut out.

Almost 950 Florida-licensed pharmacies engage in “sterile compounding,” the type of high-risk drug-making that led to a deadly fungal meningitis epidemic…

A group of about 200 schoolchildren, teachers, local officials and aviation buffs gathered to watch a Boeing 727 aircraft make its final landing at…

Ground has been broken on the latest expansion of the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, with both the economic and physical health of the Bay area being the…

The Super Bowl may be the most watched TV event of the year, but in this multi-media age it's also the last gasp of old media.Kelly McBride of the Poynter…

PolitiFact Florida has found some half truths in recent statements about gun control from Florida leaders.Gun violence is back on the front burner of…

Monday was the first full day of cost-saving furloughs for nearly 15,000 Federal Aviation Administration employees. While weather seemed to be a factor in…

The suspects in the marathon bombings are also suspected of killing a MIT police officer and carjacking an SUV. The driver of that vehicle says they told him he wouldn't be hurt. He did not believe that.

Imagine: you're a college student. You need a job. You get on an elevator, and there's the hiring director for the company you want to work for. You have…

There are thousands of videos on YouTube with young people trying something called the "cinnamon challenge." People try to swallow a spoonful of cinnamon…

Have tax breaks for insurance companies created tens of thousands of new jobs in Florida? And while you may have heard the rumors about "Obama-phones",…

The FBI wants to speak with "Misha," a man who relatives of the suspects say may have introduced Tamerlan Tsarnaev to radical Islam. Meanwhile, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev reportedly stopped giving information to investigators after being read his Miranda rights.

The Marion County School Board has voted to reinstate paddling in county elementary schools after a three-year hiatus.The punishment comes with a few…

A suspicious package that caused the closure of a stretch of South Dale Mabry Highway for a few hours late this morning ended up containing garbage.All of…

Lawmakers are considering a measure that would offer legal protection to groups that trap, sterilize and return feral cats to their colonies. But wildlife groups and some homeowners say the cats are a threat to public health — and to other animals.

By a 71 to 45 vote, the Florida House of Representatives on Friday passed its own health plan, which relies on state money and bypasses more than $50…

Florida Education Commissioner Tony Bennett says state leaders and lawmakers are listening to teacher concerns about evaluations.The Florida Education…

Federal agents who are investigating poison-laced letters that were sent to President Obama and others have arrested Everett Dutschke, of Tupelo, Miss. The Daily Journal of Tupelo reports that the arrest occurred around 1 a.m. Saturday.

Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev "vaguely discussed" jihad during a 2011 phone conversation with his mother, a U.S. official tells the Associated Press. The call, taped by the Russian government, reportedly did not include any mention of a plot in the U.S.

The interim president of Florida A&M University has lifted the suspension of the renowned Marching 100 band a year and a half after a drum major was…

This year has been anything but routine in Boston, after the deadly marathon bombings and the chaotic manhunt. But tonight, the traditional July Fourth show will go on as the Boston Pops performs amid bursts of fireworks. While the music and pyrotechnics will be familiar, the scene and mood are different.

We ask visitors on the National Mall about independence and they tell us about the freedoms that are the most important to them.

Francis Scott Key wrote the words to the ballad after witnessing the Battle for Baltimore in 1814. According to author Steve Vogel, after it was published, Key's composition took the country by storm. But it didn't become the national anthem until more than 100 years later.

Spectacular firework displays are the grand finale of big Fourth of July celebrations. We get some pointers from a professional photographer who has shot many a Fourth of July.