Small-business issues have taken center stage in U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultzs bid for re-election to Congress.

An audit of state Republican Party finances found a pattern of "inappropriate" spending by Gov. Charlie Crist and disgraced former Chairman Jim Greer.

After three months of decreasing in the spring, the unemployment rate in Florida increased in July and August as the Sunshine State continues to lag behind the rest of the nation in terms of economic recovery

Congress came back to D.C. this week from its August recess and should have been ready to strap on their seat belts and get to work doing the legislation that they failed to do all year long.

Late Thursday the Florida Chamber of Commerce announced its endorsements in the gubernatorial and attorney general races -- backing Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Scott and attorney general hopeful Pam Bondi over their Democratic rivals.

Responding to a request by an appellate court, the Florida Supreme Court agreed Thursday to take up a dispute between the states largest teachers union and the Legislature, which have squared off over lawmakers attempt to relax class size restrictions passed by voters in 2002.

Individual members of the South Florida Agriculture Association say they are departing from the association's traditional Republican stance to back a lieutenant governor candidate they know, Democrat Rod Smith.

Religious conservatives will assemble in Washington this weekend to take part in the Value Voters Summit -- and to take part in a straw poll which will serve as an early test of strength to see which Republican hopefuls will appeal to this pivotal group of primary voters.

WASHINGTON -- Tuesday in Delaware was a bad day not only for Republicans but for conservatives. Tea partier Christine O'Donnell scored a stunning victory over establishment Republican Mike Castle. Stunning but pyrrhic. The very people who have most alerted the country to the perils of President Obama's social democratic agenda may have just made it impossible for Republicans to retake the Senate and definitively stop that agenda.

JERSEY CITY, N.J. -- The crime scene at 138 Griffith St. has changed in 76 years. Today it is a barber shop. In 1934, it was a tailoring and cleaning establishment owned and run by Jacob Maged, 49.