A new poll finds that former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich, fresh from his win in the South Carolina primary on Saturday, now heads the field of Republican presidential hopefuls in Florida leading up to the Jan. 31 primary.
Newt Gingrich's verbal pyrotechnics won the day in South Carolina, but can the resurgent former speaker of the House overcome Mitt Romney's big lead in Florida and repeat the miracle here?
A bill inspired by the infamous missing girl investigation and murder trial of an Orlando mother continues to advance in the state Legislature.
The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously supported SB 858, which would make it a third-degree felony for any person who provides misleading information to law enforcement during a missing child investigation where the child -- age 16 or younger -- is later found to have been injured.
Currently, providing false information is a misdemeanor.
School districts across Florida are rolling a little closer to being able to plaster ads on the side of the buses that travel residential neighborhoods picking up and dropping off children.
The Senate Transportation Committee, behind an 8-2 vote on Thursday, became the second committee to support SB 344, which would allow individual school boards to decide if they want to sell space on school buses to create revenue.
The Senate Education Pre-K-12 Committee backed the bill in a 4-2 vote on Jan. 9.
The Florida Senate isn't wasting time.
Senators this week tackled perhaps the most controversial issue of the legislative session, overwhelmingly approving plans to redraw boundaries for Senate and congressional districts. At the same time, Senate President Mike Haridopolos moved quickly to revive a controversial proposal that would privatize prisons across the southern half of the state.
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court can pack large portents in small details. When in late March it considers the constitutionality of Obamacare, there will be five and a half hours of oral argument -- the most in almost half a century.
Those who take a certain pleasure in denouncing the evils of negative political advertising should have spent the last week in South Carolina.
