A Tallahassee judge gave Florida officials more time to present their defense of a two-year old law requiring women to wait 24 hours before receiving an abortion, but seemed skeptical that the state would convince him to keep the law on the books.
Frank Brogan climbed a very tall career ladder in Florida that took him from classroom teacher to chancellor of the State University System, always by exceeding expectations.
Members of the Florida delegation reacted to the collapse of Republican efforts in the U.S. Senate to repeal and replace former President Barack Obama’s federal health-care law.
With buzz growing that U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., will run for governor in 2018 instead of a fourth term in Congress, Democrat Nancy Soderberg announced on Wednesday that she would run for the congressional seat he currently holds.
After the federal government announced it was going after more than 400 people for Medicare fraud, two members of the Florida delegation in Congress have teamed up to offer a proposal toughening the penalties for that crime.
A Florida appeals court began to weigh in on how, exactly, Florida is fulfilling its Constitutional obligation to provide “a uniform, efficient, safe, secure, and high quality system of free public schools” on Tuesday.
It's clear gambling regulators weren't keen on a horse race between two aging nags on a dirt path, with the race launched by a red rag on a stick.
But what's less clear is whether the regulators had the authority to punish a tiny North Florida horse track that ran the race.
The controversial “flag drop” race three years ago at Hamilton Downs between two horses owned by the same woman was the focus of a hearing Tuesday before a three-judge panel of the 1st District Court of Appeal.
Environmentalists cry foul when South Florida Water Management District back-pumps floodwater into Lake Okeechobee to spare wildlife and threatened Glades communities.
Commissioner of Agriculture and Republican gubernatorial candidate Adam Putnam told a crowd Tuesday he believes concealed weapons permit holders should be allowed to carry their firearms on college campuses.
