With 94 delegates to the Republican convention in Tampa, New York is the biggest prize on the table on April 24 when five Northeastern states have their say in the latest round of presidential primaries -- and Empire State Republicans appear to be solidly behind Mitt Romney.
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People may be able to dye baby chicks for at least a year, as a tradeoff in the state Department of Agricultures effort to fight the growth of Africanized honey bees, which have been tagged as "killer bees."
Florida business leaders are more optimistic about adding employees, according to a Florida Chamber of Commerce Small Business Council survey.
The nonscientific, random survey found 37 percent of employers in the Sunshine State plan to hire in the next six months, up from only 7 percent last July.
Meanwhile, only 3 percent anticipate layoffs, while 8 percent of business owners and operators in July 2011 were looking to cut staff.
A political committee that played an important role in Gov. Rick Scott's 2010 election raised $910,000 in contributions during the first three months of this year, according to state records.
The Let's Get to Work Committee also has started quickly in April, reporting on its website that it has already brought in about $438,000 -- with large contributions coming from private prison operator The Geo Group Inc., and a Florida Optometric Association political committee.
In the run-up to the U.S. Supreme Court hearing on Arizona's immigration law, two Florida Democrats are weighing in.
Reps. Ted Deutch, D-Boca Raton, and Frederica Wilson, D-Miami, signed an amicus brief with 65 other members of Congress -- all Democrats -- to support the Justice Department's opposition to the law.
They joined 11 state attorneys general -- also all Democrats -- in contending that Arizona's SB 1070 will "have the primary effect of redirecting undocumented immigrants to other states."
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On Wednesday, the Supreme Court of Florida elected Ricky Polston, who had been with the court since being appointed to it by then-Gov. Charlie Crist backin 2008, by a unanimous vote to serve as chief justice.
Generally considered one of the more conservative members of the court, Polston replaces current Chief Justice Charles Canaday, a former Republican congressman whose two-year term comes to an end.
When I was a kid, we dreamt about someday owning a "flying car" like the ones we saw in cartoons. Back in those days, I also heard my dad warn that "someday we will have another Depression, where the financial world just collapses overnight."
Second in a series of profiles of candidates in the 6th Congressional District, which runs along the northern east coast of Florida.
Craig Miller likes his position in the geopolitics of the new 6th Congressional District.
The first Republican to officially enter the race, Miller has an established residence in Winter Park, outside CD 6. But the former restaurant-industry executive has long maintained a home in the Volusia County town of New Smyrna Beach and has extensive business connections in the district.
A Republican congressional candidate in Southwest Florida is questioning what he calls an opponent's "creepy" purchase of personal Internet domain names.
"It's a little stalker-ish," Chauncey Goss said of the "Friends of Trey Radel," who bought the rights to chaunceygoss.com, chaunceygoss.net and chaunceygoss.org.
Adding to the intrigue, the site names were obtained in March and April of 2011 -- 11 months before Radel announced his candidacy for the 19th Congressional District.
The second anniversary is approaching of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion that claimed the lives of 11 workers and spewed economic shock waves along the Gulf of Mexico.
That means the media can be expected once again to highlight the tragedy, again causing a dip in efforts to revive the image of seafood harvested from the Gulf of Mexico, Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam said Wednesday.
