With less than a week to go until five states in the Northeast hold their primaries, Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul is looking to play catch-up on Mitt Romney, the overwhelming favorite in the race for the GOP nomination.

The Paul campaign announced that their candidate will hold events in New York, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island later this week. Those states -- as well as Connecticut and Delaware -- will hold primaries on Tuesday, April 24.

Attorney General Pam Bondi wants a federal judge to delay the recently announced BP settlement because she says it doesn't give full compensation to Floridians.

Bondi has filed a statement of interest asking the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana, to review the pending $9.6 million settlement in the April 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

How much will Obamacare -- call it the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act if you like -- cost over the next 10 years?

If ever a story carried a ring of familiarity, the Gov. Scott Walker recall in Wisconsin is it for me. It's the story of a tea-party-conservative governor roundly disliked by unions, sour-grapes election losers and a liberal press.

The states first comprehensive energy bill in five years, considered a more modest approach than past diversification efforts and approved with overwhelming bipartisan support by the Legislature, will become law without the governors signature.

In announcing Friday that he will allow the bill to become law effective July 1, Gov. Rick Scott expressed mixed feelings on the pro-business legislation due to the addition of targeted tax credits that he threatened to later try to repeal if they dont work as advertised.

The national debate over guns, racial profiling and Florida's controversial self-defense law continued this week as murder charges were brought against a neighborhood watch volunteer who shot and killed a 17-year-old black teenager.

National news networks all went live as Special Prosecutor Angela Corey ended weeks of speculation by announcing Wednesday that 31-year-old George Zimmerman would face second-degree murder charges for the death of Trayvon Martin, whose shooting in a gated community in Sanford has sparked a national furor.

From his office window, Thomas W. Horton, in his fifth month as CEO of American Airlines, can see in the distance the Manhattan-size footprint of Dallas-Fort Worth airport, where American has 85 percent market share; it also has 68 percent in Miami, gateway to South America's booming market.

Some 2.2 million Florida students in grades 3-10 will buckle down for FCAT exams on Monday amid heightened and unprecedented security.

Determined to root out cheating at all levels, the state Department of Education implemented several new protocols last fall and expanded on them this year.