Conservative Washington, D.C.-based watchdog Judicial Watch today released a letter from the Justice Department admitting a Democratic Party/Obama campaign donor and Justice Department attorney spent more than 1,529 hours investigating the IRS targeting conservative organizations in 2010 and 2012.
Florida is three days away from the 2016 Back-to-School Sales Tax Holiday, Aug. 5-7.
The Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) is among state agencies reminding parents, guardians and community members to make sure that Florida’s students start the year off right by taking advantage of the tax holiday.
DJJ points out that research shows children and teens who stay in school are less likely to make contact with the juvenile justice system. In fact, having problems at school is considered a major risk factor for criminal offending, the department claims.
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Hillary Clinton’s post-convention lead over Donald Trump has continued to grow as more polls have come in, according to FiveThirtyEight Newsletter.
Initial polls conducted after the Democratic National Convention suggest Clinton received a convention bounce in the high single digits. That exceeds Donald Trump, who came out of the Republican National Convention with a 3-4 percentage point bounce. A bounce is the net gain in a candidate's standing in the polls.
According to FiveThirtyEight, here's a roundup of post-convention polls seen so far:
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The Washington Post gave Hillary Clinton one of its dreaded "four-Pinocchio" ratings -- the worst score possible for truthfulness -- after Clinton told Fox News Sunday that the FBI defended her honesty in the classified email scandal that has plagued her presidential campaign for more than 16 months.
FBI director James Comey testified in a July 7 congressional hearing that multiple statements the Democratic presidential nominee made to the public were untrue.
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In a decision that could have wide-ranging implications for pari-mutuels throughout the state, an administrative law judge ruled Monday that the way "designated-player" card games are being operated by a Jacksonville poker room violates the state's ban on so-called banked card games.
Monday's ruling that the popular card games are being played illegally comes more than four years after Florida gambling regulators first signed off on the games, which have eclipsed other card games like Texas Hold 'Em in popularity among patrons.
At the end of last week, President Barack Obama signed into law a proposal reforming public housing which contained an amendment from a Florida congressman to ensure more screening is done for public housing applicants.
Florida ranks in the top 10 states nationwide for school-system safety, but trails behind on school-system quality, according to a new report.
Gov. Rick Scott announced today that the Florida Department of Health (DOH) has identified 10 additional people in Florida with the Zika virus who likely contracted it through a mosquito bite.
This brings the total number of people with locally transmitted Zika to 14. DOH believes that active transmissions of the Zika virus are still only occurring in the one small area in Miami-Dade County, just north of downtown, that was announced on Friday (see map below).
Sally Bradshaw, Jeb Bush's top adviser and for nearly three decades one of the most respected advisers in the Republican Party in any state, has left the GOP to become an independent.
She told CNN's Jamie Gangel in an exclusive email interview that if the presidential race in Florida is close, she will vote for Hillary Clinton.
