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Hillary Clinton spent her 69th birthday in Tampa.The Democratic presidential nominee was at Curtis Hixon Park in downtown Tampa Wednesday to urge Florida…

For the third time in seven years, the University of South Florida is looking for a new head football coach.Willie Taggart resigned Wednesday, four years…

The author of a controversial proposal that would broadly expand how and where people can carry guns said Tuesday he is breaking up the measure.

There’s an interesting term popping up in media reports lately: dog whistle.It's a metaphor for talking in a way that a small group of people hear one…

The Ringling Bros . Barnum & Bailey Circus features its first female ringmaster center stage just months before announcing the iconic circus will...

President Barack Obama in his State of the Union address called for renewed vigor in the fight against cancer. Drawing parallels to John F. Kennedy’s goal…

The Silver Star recipient is a three-star Army general known as a military intellectual. The president called him "a man of tremendous talent and tremendous experience."

"The wind is going to try to pull the roof ... vertically up and away from the ground," says one civil engineering professor. Experts are also concerned about how Florida's dams and levees will fare.

State hospitals are battling back against a pair of proposed “transparency” rules requiring hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers to provide...

Open enrollment for the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, begins in less than a week.

In a move that will almost certainly rankle already-perturbed lawmakers, a rejected vendor intends to challenge state health officials' hiring of a...

A Florida prosecutor who fought and lost a battle with the governor over her decision not to seek the death penalty said Friday that she will comply...

Resiliency is defined as the ability to recover from difficulties.And when it comes to a life-changing event like Hurricane Irma, there are two different…

An additional 44,000 Bright Futures students would have their scholarships expanded under a bill approved Monday by the Senate Education Committee. The...

WUSF's Mark Schreiner recently had the opportunity to sit down with Dr. Sophia Wisniewska, the new Regional Chancellor for USF Saint Petersburg.During the…

Ernest Hemingway's son turned down an offer from the publication that dismissed his father's work in 1924. Patrick Hemingway calls today's Vanity Fair a "luxury thinker's magazine," so he went to Harper's instead. NPR's Scott Simon suspects Hemingway himself would have sold the story to the highest bidder.

After careful consideration, gnashing of teeth and cleansing of palates, we have a winner in the Found Recipes Taste of Summer contest. Listeners wrote in, and NPR staff sampled recipes from the three finalists.

Gov. Rick Scott has rejected a request from Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater to consider a search for a new head of the Florida Department of Law...

PolitiFact Florida recently put a pair of claims from two of the leading candidates on the Republican side in the 2016 race for the White House under the…

After months of federal negotiations and proposals floated by Gov. Rick Scott, the House and the Senate, lawmakers on Saturday reached tentative...

Health care fraud sweeps across the country have led to charges against 243 people, including doctors, nurses and pharmacy owners accused of bilking...

A bruising budget battle that divided Republicans in the Florida Legislature is over for now, but the truce is likely only to last a few months....

Florida's presidential primary is more than nine months away, but there's already one winner in the contest: Gov. Rick Scott.No, he's not jumping in the…

Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, who was easily re-elected to a second term, is defending her decisions to take free trips to conferences and socialize…

State health-care officials expect to receive a report next week that spells out options for dealing with the possible end of a program that has provided…