Possibly facing a more competitive race in November than she is used to, South Florida Republican Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen called on the GOP leadership to do more to battle Zika.
The bodies of boys who died at the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys may finally find a proper burial ground in Tallahassee.
Whether it's the kind given to students in school or the kind that can detect a disease creeping into the state, tests helped drive the week in Florida.
Tests for Zika continued to provide more troublesome headlines for state officials --- and for the tourism industry that needs a flow of positive stories --- in the form of a second area where the virus is believed to have been transmitted by mosquitoes. That came even as a state economist suggested the fallout from the disease was already likely to take a bite out of state revenues.
U.S. Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte apologized Friday for his behavior surrounding an incident at a Rio de Janeiro gas station, saying he should have been more "careful and candid" about how he described what happened after a night of partying with his teammates.
But he didn't explain why he embellished details of an encounter with armed security guards and called it a robbery, and why he left out that he and three teammates had vandalized a gas station restroom.
While it might be another week until the primary, the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) is ready for businessman Randy Perkins to win the Democratic nomination to replace Congressman Patrick Murphy who is running for the U.S. Senate.
Perkins is currently running a radio ad featuring the support of Congressman Alcee Hastings.
“Randy really knows the struggles of working people and will fight for you in Congress,” Hastings says in the radio spot.
The Zika virus has made its way to the Miami Beach area, heightening fears over the spread of the virus in the Sunshine State.
Florida’s unemployment rate continued to remain constant in July, sitting at an unchanged 4.7 percent according to the latest report from the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity.
State CFO Jeff Atwater waded into one of the most competitive Republican primaries in Florida on Friday as he threw his support to Rebecca Negron’s bid to replace Congressman Patrick Murphy who is running for the U.S. Senate.
The United States' big government is about to get bigger.
The U.S. Justice Department announced Thursday it has seen enough of private prisons, and will phase them out as soon as possible.
In a memo explaining the decision, Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates wrote that private prisons “simply do not provide the same level of correctional services, programs, and resources,” “do not save substantially on costs,” and “do not maintain the same level of safety and security” as facilities operated by the Bureau of Prisons.
As this year's presidential race bounces along, the nation's partisan divide continues drawing attention.
People in red states and blue states talk past each other --- OK, often yell past each other. The presidential candidates can largely ignore much of the country because the real battle is in Florida and a handful of other swing states.
