A lawyer for Death Row inmate Terrance Phillips wants the Florida Supreme Court to order an investigation into allegations of racism involving the circuit judge who sentenced the Jacksonville man to death --- including accusations that the judge once said blacks should "go back to Africa."
The Florida Department of Health has cleared part of the area of downtown Miami impacted by the Zika virus, Gov. Rick Scott announced Thursday.
With the conventions over, a new poll shows Hillary Clinton ahead of Donald Trump in Florida, the largest swing state in presidential politics.
A group vehemently opposed to Florida’s cross-state rail expansion from Orlando to Miami graded state lawmakers on their position to All Aboard Florida in a report released Thursday. Citizens Against Rail Expansion in Florida (CARE FL), a group opposing AAF, ranked local, state and federal lawmakers and political candidates on their positions on the $1.5 billion project which will run from Orlando to Miami with various stops in between.
Even with Congress on recess, Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is taking a leading role in political affairs even as Democrats look to make inroads in her South Florida district.
While the lazy days of summer wind down to a close and Florida students prep to head back to school, one important aspect of the learning process may be absent before school even begins.
A state task force on Wednesday began an emotional debate about how to commemorate the victims of abuse and brutality at the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys and what to do with the unidentified remains of youths who died at the shuttered reform school.
"The mission and goals of this task force are different and sensitive from most other task forces," Secretary of State Ken Detzner told the nine-member panel, which held its first meeting in Marianna, near the site of the 1,400-acre Dozier property in Jackson County.
Zika is becoming a hot issue in a South Florida congressional race which is expected to be one of the most competitive in the nation come November.
Perhaps he didn't mean to, perhaps it came out wrong, but in the court of public opinion, Donald Trump has picked a fight with the grieving family of Capt. Humayun Khan, an American soldier slain while serving his country.
Glenn Sutphin no longer has the interim tag affixed to his title at the Florida Department of Veterans' Affairs.
A longtime chief of staff and legislative affairs director for the Florida Department of Military Affairs, Sutphin was unanimously appointed Tuesday by Gov. Rick Scott and the state Cabinet as executive director of the Department of Veterans' Affairs.
