State Rep. Janet Adkins, R-Fernandina Beach, has been in the news this week for calling on more inmates to be included in U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown’s, D-Fla., district and the congresswoman fired back on Thursday. 

Earlier this week, Politico broke the news about Adkins’ comments to a closed door GOP meeting held last month as she talked about the continued congressional redistricting and how to deprive Brown of African-American voters. 

The stakes are getting higher in South Florida as U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., went to bat for the Democratic candidate running against U.S. Rep. Carlos Curbelo, R-Fla., on Wednesday as both sides looked to fundraise off the former House speaker. 

After more than 30 year of service, the USS Simpson (FFG 56), an Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate, will leave the Navy at the end of the month. 

The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles is the latest state agency preparing to update paperwork to reflect continuing ripple effects from the legalization of same-sex marriage.

The agency on Tuesday will go to Gov. Rick Scott and the state Cabinet with a proposed rule change related to transfers of titles on cars and boats --- with a revision replacing a reference to "husband and wife."

The war of words is heating up between businessman Donald Trump and U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., as the two Republicans continue running for the Republican nomination. 

The two Florida congressmen running to replace U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., in the Senate next year continue to exchange attacks against each other as they maneuver for position. 

U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., is gaining ground in his home state of Florida and is now in second behind Donald Trump in a new survey of the GOP primary in the Sunshine State, while former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton leads on the Democratic side. 

Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, favorite for the Democratic presidential nomination, is struggling against the top Republican candidates in a new poll of the pivotal swing state, Florida. 

Two top lawmakers are on a list of witnesses and depositions that the Florida House and Senate plan to use at a Thursday court hearing to defend congressional redistricting proposals.

The Florida Cabinet will meet next Tuesday to discuss excavations at the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys, a reform school in Marianna which was allegedly the site of torture, abuse and even the deaths of over 50 boys living there during the school’s 100-year history.