State lawmakers are game for a bill to require recess for Florida students, passing a bill Tuesday to mandate at least 20 minutes of recess each day in the Sunshine State.

In a decision that opens the door for a poker room in downtown Miami --- and possibly others throughout South Florida --- an appeals court on Tuesday decided that gambling regulators were wrong to deny a new pari-mutuel permit to a Miami operator.

For the boys of the Arthur G. Dozier School, an apology had been a long time coming.

This week, the 60 Plus Association is focusing on the Sunshine State, promoting its “Taxpayer Revolt Tour” across Florida. 

The 60 Plus Association, the largest conservative seniors group and often a check on the more liberal AARP, notes that its mission in Florida this week is to to raise awareness of three of its chief priorities at the federal level: ending the Death Tax; a full repeal of former President Barack Obama’s health care law; and rolling back regulations enacted by the Obama administration.

Calling for a “whole new generation of people to stand up and demand more for our politics,"  businessman Chris King kicked off his bid to be Florida’s next governor on Tuesday. 

A Florida Senate committee unanimously passed a plan to regulate Florida’s newly expanded medical marijuana industry on Monday. 

With the Trump administration pulling the United States out of the  Trans-Pacific Partnership when it took office in January, a Florida Republican is looking for closer trade relations with one of the Asian nations that had been part of it. 

It doesn't look like Gov. Rick Scott is going to let Orange-Osceola State Attorney Aramis Ayala anywhere near a capital murder case on his watch.

Conspicuous by his absence, Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum won’t say why he was a no-show at the Florida Democratic Party’s County Chair Association meeting this weekend, but some are raising their eyebrows, saying the mayor skipped out due to an ongoing scandal surrounding his government use of an email server for campaign purposes. 

Businessman Scott Fuhrman announced on Monday that he will seek a rematch with U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., in 2018.