Women's soccer fans in Central Florida were rejoicing Wednesday, the day after the Orlando City Soccer Club announced its launch of the Orlando Pride, the National Women’s Soccer League's 10 franchise.
Popular U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., opened the door to replacing House Speaker John Boehner this week, but a congressman from Florida is still standing in his way.
Vice President Joe Biden ended weeks of speculation on Wednesday and announced he will not run for the Democratic presidential nomination. Biden appeared with President Barack Obama in the Rose Garden on Wednesday and noted there was a window for running for president. “I’ve concluded that it has closed,” Biden said, explaining his family is doing better after the death of his son, Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden. “Beau was our inspiration.”
Republican presidential hopeful U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida is calling for more evaluation of foreign aid programs and supporting posting more information about it online. Rubio, who sits on the Foreign Affairs Committee, teamed up with U.S. Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., to unveil the “Foreign Aid Transparency and Accountability Act of 2015” on Tuesday. The bill sets guidelines, metrics and monitoring of federal foreign aid and puts more data online. Last year, the federal government spent $23 billion in nonmilitary foreign aid.
Florida is on the way to eradicating the largest outbreak of Oriental fruit flies in the state's history, an agriculture official told a Senate panel Tuesday.
Since Aug. 26, a record 165 of the voracious insects have been found in part of Miami-Dade County that is mainly agricultural land, with an estimated 2,000 growers, nurseries and other businesses affected.
Former U.S. Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., ended his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination on Tuesday but kept the door open to continuing as a third-party candidate.
Former Gov. Charlie Crist launched a bid for Congress on Tuesday, setting his eyes on a seat which is expected to contain much of Pinellas County.
A bill to allow concealed weapons on college campuses successfully made its way through another Senate Committee Tuesday, passing the Senate Higher Education Committee by a vote of 5-3.
Lawmakers appear closer to patching up differences on new statewide water policies which failed to advance earlier this year.
House Speaker Steve Crisafulli told reporters on Wednesday that talks were well underway to solve "minor technical hang-ups." Two days later, measures dealing with the issue were filed in both chambers. The proposals contain most of the elements included in a business-friendly plan approved by the House last year but which failed to win Senate support.
The redistricting saga isn’t over for Florida just yet -- for the Florida Senate maps, the party’s just begun.
