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A new report from Florida’s school superintendents warns that despite a nearly $100 million increase in funding, there may not be enough money to post...

After past deals have collapsed amid infighting among Florida's gambling interests, the Republican-controlled Legislature is trying yet again to pass a…

DREAMERS and activists with the Florida Immigrant Coalition gathered outside Senator Bill Nelson’s office in Coral Gables on Thursday demanding him to...

It’s a rather remarkable number: In 2017, over 130,000 calls were made to Poison Control centers in Florida. In honor of this year’s National Poison…

Addressing community concerns with its initial plan, Sarasota’s Selby Gardens has announced its amended expansion proposal.The initial plan was rejected…

A tornado touched down in Pinellas Park on Thursday night, downing trees, billboards and power lines while ripping roofs off houses.Construction cranes…

New research from USF is finding that a commonly-used fungicide may be toxic to aquatic life.The chemical is chlorothalonil, the most commonly used…

With a former Supreme Court justice shepherding the talks, negotiators Thursday tried to break through a long-running disagreement about how Florida…

Florida's top Republican legislative leaders said Wednesday that they finally reached a deal on a new budget that should clear the way for them to end…

There has been a lot of attention on the issue of sexual assault on college campuses in recent years. There was an alleged case of rape on the...

Among the $410 million worth of projects struck from the new state budget by Governor Rick Scott's veto pen are a number of items with ties to the Tampa…

As he eyes a run for the U.S. Senate, Gov. Rick Scott on Wednesday unveiled the first piece of his pending election-year budget proposal: a $30 million...

Gov. Rick Scott signed measures Wednesday that will impose minimum mandatory sentences on people who traffic in the dangerous drug fentanyl and require...

An anthropologist pursuing his Ph.D. at Brown University spent the past few months researching the H-2A guest worker program in Florida’s citrus...

While Florida’s fight against human trafficking is far from over, officials say one tool is helping combat the modern-slavery practice.

A sinkhole caused a section of a Clermont resort villa to partially collapse early Monday, while another section of the villa was sinking, authorities…

Vacationers staying in central Florida awoke to crashing sounds Sunday night, as their three-story building began to collapse. A large portion of the structure at a resort in Clermont was pulled into a sinkhole. It seems the process was slow enough that everyone in the building got out safely.

The sinkhole that opened up underneath a vacation villa near Disney World last night wasn't the first - or anywhere near the last - sinkhole that has…

President Obama, speaking from the Rose Garden, said he'd decided to use military force against Syria, but was also seeking congressional authorization for the action.

Congressman Alan Grayson is back in the news. The rather verbose Democratic Congressman from the Orlando area came to national fame a few years back, when…

A study by an international panel of scientists shows that the researchers are confident about the links between human activity, global warming and climate change.

A poll released Thursday by Quinnipiac University shows Donald Trump with a commanding lead in Florida over native son Marco Rubio, with less than three…

Communities that provide sanctuary to undocumented immigrants are coming under fire in the Florida legislature.

The Pirates-Marlins series was meant to honor Hall of Fame player Roberto Clemente, who hails from the island. But players say they were worried about contracting Zika.

CBS News and CNN say they've been told by sources familiar with what was found that investigators believe marathon bombings suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev wrote on an interior wall of the boat where he was found hiding. He allegedly said the attack was in retaliation for the Afghan and Iraq wars.