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To get into Florida colleges and universities you have to have studied — or be able to speak — a second language. But Florida students don’t have to...

The Florida Retail Federation originally predicted Black Friday 2013 would net three and a half to four and half percent more sales than 2012 and…

Florida A&M University is no longer on probation.The school has been taken off the probation imposed a year ago in the wake of a marching band member's…

President Obama shook hands Tuesday with Cuban leader Raul Castro, a move that led to speculation about the future of ties between the two Cold War-era foes. But one expert says none of the issues separating the U.S. and Cuba will be resolved by a handshake alone.

After being grounded because of federal budget cuts, MacDill Air Force Base's AirFest is back.Base officials announced today AirFest will be held March 22…

Five Florida hospitals, and three around Tampa Bay, have received the industry's highest award for managing the shift to a paperless environment. The…

Harlem's world-famous Sylvia's Queen of Soul Food Restaurant now has a location in St. Petersburg, on the ground floor of the historic Manhattan Casino on…

Officials are not releasing as much water from Lake Okeechobee as they did during last year’s rainy season.

The Senate sponsor of Florida's sweeping new child-welfare law says she'll be back next year with a bill to expand its reporting requirements.Sen. Eleanor…

Federal officials have approved a three-year extension of a program that requires almost all Florida Medicaid beneficiaries to enroll in managed-care…

Ryan Seashore starts off every CodeNow workshop with a simple request: Write out step-by-step instructions for making a peanut butter and jelly…

Premiums for Floridians buying insurance on the Affordable Care Act marketplace will rise an average of 13 percent for next year, the Florida Office of...

Gov. Rick Scott's office and campaign are attacking as "blatantly political" a letter from U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announcing that the Justice…

Alcohol is apparently pretty popular at the University of Florida, students at New College are active in politics but not so much in sports, and studying…

If things had gone as planned, USF Department of Anthropology Associate Professor Heide Castañeda would have spent the last two months in Texas and Mexico…

The governor of Florida got a dressing down from the Attorney General of the United States recently.In a letter to Rick Scott late last month, Attorney…

Tropical Storm Bertha has formed, becoming the second named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season.The U.S. Hurricane Center in Miami said the tropical…

The Florida Society of Anesthesiologists this week filed a legal challenge against the state Agency for Health Care Administration because of a new…

The former clinic owner accused of selling performance-enhancing drugs to Alex Rodriguez has agreed to plead guilty in what prosecutors called a wide...

Rejecting arguments of anti-abortion activists, a federal appeals court Wednesday refused to block a West Palm Beach ordinance that bans amplified sound…

Republicans who control the Florida Legislature kicked off a special session Thursday by proposing to tweak seven of the state's 27 congressional…

It's just a journalism class. But the syllabus for this once a week class at Boston University went viral.No doubt that is, in part, because it is being…

Florida’s Republican-controlled Legislature has passed new congressional maps largely along party lines. If Gov. Rick Scott approves them, the new...

The special redistricting session held by the Legislature lasted just five days, but the two-year battle over the boundaries of the state's 27…

In a matter of hours August 13th, 2004, Hurricane Charley demolished historic downtown Punta Gorda. Quaint brick shops collapsed. Glass office buildings…