Gov. Rick Scott and the members of the Florida Cabinet -- CFO Jeff Atwater, Attorney General Pam Bondi and Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam -- will participate in the release of a rehabilitated sea turtle following the May 8 meeting in Marathon, the governor's office announced Wednesday.
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Gov. Rick Scott shot down a request by Tampa City Council members to alter the states gun law for the city downtown when the Republican National Convention comes to town this August.
While the city has the ability on its own to temporarily ban water guns, sticks and poles, Scott stated that firearm possession is covered by Article I, Section 8 of the Florida Constitution and the Second Amendment.
Gov. Rick Scott will be at a fruit packinghouse in the Indian River County community of Fellsmere today for his ninth Lets Get to Work day.
His workday schedule includes lunch with employees and sorting, packing and boxing fruit, as well as a meeting with members of the Indian River Citrus League.
Scott will spend the day at IMG Citrus Phoenix Grove as a demonstration of the economic impact of Floridas citrus industry, according to a release from the governors office.
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WASHINGTON -- The squabbling between political campaigns and the harrumphing of pundits were put in proper perspective at, of all places, the White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA) dinner -- the annual Prom on the Potomac where 2,000 or so media members and movie stars gather to honor the president and admire one another.
Rep. Dennis Baxley, R-Ocala, who sponsored the states Stand Your Ground law seven years ago, thinks the task force now assembled needs to expand its public-safety focus.
A controversial Progress Energy Florida project to build two nuclear reactors in Levy County will not start producing electricity until 2024 -- and likely will cost between $19 billion and $24 billion, the company said Tuesday.
Progress released the information as it notified state regulators that it will seek to collect $151.7 million from customers in 2013 to pay for work on the Levy County project and for upgrades at an existing nuclear plant at Crystal River.
Members of the Citizens Safety and Protection Task Force said they didnt want to make the Trayvon Martin-George Zimmerman case the focal point of their review of self-defense laws.
But members of the statewide committee agreed to hold their group's first public input road meeting in Sanford on June 12.
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Looking to get their conservative credentials in order, the two leading Republicans looking to defeat Democrat incumbent U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson in November showcased their support from former presidential candidates on Tuesday.
Gov. Rick Scott signed legislation Tuesday designed to punish companies that do business with Cuba or Syria.Both nations are on the U.S. State Department list of state sponsors of terrorism.
For a symbolic flourish, Scott signed the bill, House Bill 959, in the Freedom Tower in Miami, a building that once served as a processing center by the federal government for refugees fleeing Fidel Castros communist regime.
