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Every year, we remember some of the writers, actors, musicians, filmmakers and performers who died over the past year, and whose lifetime of creative work helped shape our world.

In 2005, two Chicagoans made a generational classic and then sprinted in opposite directions, each daring the rest of hip-hop to follow them.

It's a historical romance set in the late 1800s about a young female journalist who goes to Chile in the late 1800s to cover a brewing civil war.

From foreign policy and tariffs to immigration changes and targeting of DEI, here's a look back at some of the major moves made in the past 100 days of President Trump's second administration.

Chess Jakobs' new play "The American Five" tells the story of how Martin Luther King Jr. and his closest allies planned the March on Washington. NPR speaks with Jakobs and Ro Boddie, who plays King.

Howard Miller spent his childhood at his grandparents' hotel in St. Petersburg, rowing out to the small mangrove island just offshore to see the local…

Col. Lenny Richoux was certainly a popular commander when running Tampa’s MacDill Air Force Base. He started a friends of MacDill program to encourage…

Spiny lobster season in Florida lasts from Aug. 6 to March 31, and the state's wildlife commission has rules in place to ensure that it's not a…

Sarasota police have charged a 23-year-old man with aggravated manslaughter after officers say he left his 2-year-old baby in the car and she died.Uriel…

NPR News will air Special Coverage of the Presidential Inauguration today. Check out our live blog, updating throughout the day’s events and a fact check…

Tampa’s Lowry Park Zoo announced the birth of a rare Bornean orangutan.The zoo said in a statement Thursday that the endangered primate was born to mother…

After the Parkland, Florida, school shooting last February, a new state law requires public schools to put armed guards on every campus. Host Robin…

Pence will be at Lakeland International Airport at 3:30 p.m. Saturday.

SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCASTThis week on Florida Matters, we're talking about the fact that every public high school student in Florida must take an online…

Two people are dead after a bad accident early today that snarled traffic and left drivers fuming for miles and hours.The wreck happened at Interstate 4…

Tampa International Airport officials are reporting a 3.6 per cent increase in revenue for the first half of 2012.That's about 3 million dollars more than…

The Washington Post is reporting that George Zimmerman will be charged in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin.The newspaper cites an unidentified law…

Legislation to enact Florida's medical marijuana constitutional amendment is headed to the desk of Gov. Rick Scott.The Senate and House approved the bill…

The members of the Manatee Tiger Bay Club recently debated the issues of guns. This week on Florida Matters (Tuesday, Feb. 23 at 6:30 p.m. and Sunday,…

At 7:05 a.m. Thursday, the unmanned Orion test vehicle is scheduled to lift off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station atop a Delta IV Heavy rocket to…

Economists are telling the state's Citrus Commission that Florida orange production could sink by another two-thirds in the next 10 years if better…

A fire has destroyed a Tampa elementary school that was in a neighborhood that had just had power restored after Hurricane Irma hit the state.The fire at…

This is a compilation of WUSF's coverage of the University of South Florida investigation into the Dozier Reform School for Boys and the unmarked…

Just hours after the inauguration Tuesday of Gov. Ron DeSantis, his predecessor, Rick Scott, was sworn into the U.S. Senate.Scott appeared at DeSantis’…

Voting concludes Tuesday in the Illinois primary elections. Notable primaries include governor, U.S. Senate and congressional district races.