Things are getting dicier for U.S. Rep. Dan Webster, R-Fla., as a major Democratic contender jumped in the race this week while another is contemplating getting in. 

A triple murder in Lehigh Acres has garnered national attention even as it adds another factor to the debate over immigration, leading a Southwest Florida congressman to speak out against the Obama administration. Brian Omar Hyde, an illegal alien from Belize was arrested last week, accused of the murders of his aunt Dorla Pitts, her pregnant teenaged daughter Starlett Pitts and her boyfriend, Michael Kelly Jr. Hyde had a history of violence in his native Belize. 

Planned Parenthood fired back Monday against allegations that three Florida abortion clinics provided second-trimester abortions without proper licenses, seeking an emergency injunction against the state Agency for Health Care Administration "to protect women's access to safe, legal abortion."

As grounds for the injunction, Planned Parenthood said AHCA was ignoring a 2006 agency rule, which defined the first trimester as "extending through the completion of 14 weeks of pregnancy as measured from the first day of the woman's last menstrual period."

The congressional district which covers eastern Hillsborough County is set to be in one congressional district, not three, if the Senate has its way with a new congressional map proposal. State lawmakers continued to hammer away at creating a new set of congressional maps on Monday, with several senators putting forth their own amendments to shift the shape of certain districts across the state.

Drawing political boundaries seems like an easy task. It's not.

The Florida Legislature has done it twice recently, and the courts didn't like either plan. This week the legislators are trying again.

A “base map” has been drawn but it hasn't exactly gotten universal approval. No plan ever will.

If programmed correctly, a computer could draw a map that would cut the peninsula up into 27 congressional districts -- squares and rectangles containing approximately the same number of people.

With U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., moving up in the polls and memories of her collapse in the 2008 primaries in their minds, Democrats are starting to hedge their bets, looking at alternatives to former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential race. Speculation is growing.

WMEL, the flagship station of the Ed Dean Radio Show --  top political radio talk-show host focused on Florida politics -- has moved frequencies from 1300AM to 1060 AM, boosting its range as it goes from 5, 000 watts to 50,000 watts. 

John Harper, owner of Broadcast House LLC, and operator of WMEL purchased WIXC and earlier this month expanded the range of his station, including Dean’s show. 

Central Florida might be as hot as Tatooine and as swampy as Dagobah but apparently the Force is strong at Walt Disney World. On Saturday, the Walt Disney Co. doubled down on its commitment to the "Star Wars" universe, announcing the largest themed-land expansion at Disney’s Hollywood Studios at Disney World and the Disneyland park in California. 

Trying to catch businessman Donald Trump in the polls, former Gov. Jeb Bush, R-Fla., is increasingly relying on U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, the longest serving Republican in the U.S. Senate, for help to rally the GOP faithful.