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A new but controversial study asks if an end is coming to the busy Atlantic hurricane seasons of recent decades. The Atlantic looks like it is entering...

More than 80 colleges are creating a website where students will be able to apply to dozens of them and get help along the way.

Around this time of year, Joel and Lorraine Leydier usually make their annual drive from their home in a small town east of Toronto to Myrtle Beach, South…

12-7-15 5:00 p.m. This story has been changed to reflect the correct number of degree programs eliminated by the USF Board of Trustees.University of South…

As lawmakers prepare to tackle gaming legislation in Florida, some question how fantasy sports might fit in.

Americans who buy health insurance through their employer are paying more for their monthly premiums, a new study shows.

Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush said Tuesday that multiculturalism is bad for the United States, adding that immigrants who close themselves…

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...