A federal plan to tighten ozone rules would more than quadruple the number of Florida counties in violation of air-quality standards and smother 47,769 jobs statewide, industry reports say.

While prominent Democrats like Senate Minority Leader Al Lawson of Tallahassee and Rep. Yolly Roberson of North Miami Beach have endorsed Gov. Charlie Crist, who is running without party affiliation for the U.S. Senate, the governor still has a few friends left in the Republican ranks.

"Blacks for Gray, Whites for Fenty," ran the nuanced headline on page one of the Washington Examiner.

For more than 200 years, the political left has been coming up with reasons why criminals should not be punished as much, or at all. The latest gambit in Missouri is providing judges with the costs of incarcerating the criminals they sentence.

Florida Republican Party Chairman John Thrasher has to help GOP legislative candidates get elected, including himself, as he battles a well-known Democrat following an unexpected primary fight.

Rick Scott addressed questions about how to solve the state's looming insurance crisis to a group of business and community leaders in Coral Gables Monday.

Republican gubernatorial nominee Rick Scott unveiled his plan on taxes and insurance Monday, calling for a 19 percent cut in the states property taxes. In so doing, he continued in a duel of heated exchanges with his Democratic rival, state CFO Alex Sink.

The fight over Amendments 5 and 6, already litigious, is about to heat up.

With four recent polls, including one from Sunshine State News, showing that Gov. Charlie Crist, who is running for the U.S. Senate without party affiliation, is trailing Republican former House Speaker Marco Rubio by double digits, the governor is taking to the airwaves to attack.