As Florida Republicans added four U.S. House seats in Tuesday’s elections, a panel of federal judges refused to toss out a lawsuit that alleges a congressional redistricting plan is “intentionally racially discriminatory.”
Florida Republicans gained four seats in the state Senate on Tuesday, ousting two incumbents as Democrats were eclipsed in the midterm elections up and down the ballot.
Transgender children in Florida will be barred from receiving hormones or undergoing surgeries to treat gender dysphoria under a rule approved Friday by state medical officials at the urging of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Two men face attempted murder charges for allegedly firing into each other’s vehicles on a busy Florida highway and wounding each other’s daughters, who were passengers in their back seats.
U.S. Coast Guard videos released Friday show crews airlifting people to safety and give a glimpse of the destruction and desolation on some of Florida’s hard hit barrier islands.
As the state continues to struggle with a shortage of correctional officers, a legislative panel next week will consider a plan that would activate Florida National Guard members to help at prisons.
Tourism in Florida during the first half of 2022 was up 20 percent from the same period last year and was higher than during the first six months of 2019, the last full year of travel before the coronavirus pandemic.
Gubernatorial candidate Nikki Fried held a press conference Tuesday morning, where she condemned Governor Ron DeSantis’s response to the FBI’s search of Mar-a-Lago and to other issues.
According to the probable cause affidavit, on May 27, Francine Ffolkes, called 911 after her sister Brigette woke her up and said “I tried to kill our mother.”
Florida DOC records show Katherine Magbanua has now been booked into prison to begin serving a life sentence in the murder of FSU professor Dan Markel.
On Thursday, Governor Ron DeSantis suspended State Attorney Andrew Warren of the 13th Judicial Circuit, according to a press release from the Governor’s Office.
Governor Ron DeSantis announced an expansion of the Coordinated Opioid Recovery (CORE) network to help combat the opioid epidemic, according to a Wednesday press release by the Governor’s office.
A new partnership between Florida State University (FSU) and the University of Florida (UF) seeks to better the outcomes for child transplant patients, according to a press released on Monday by FSU.
Seven attorneys general, including Ashley Moody of Florida, secured $8 million Tuesday after a multistate action responding to a massive Wawa data breach, according to press release from Attorney General Moody’s office.
Attorneys for the plaintiffs argued the law violates First Amendment, due process and equal-protection rights and improperly chills discussion of issues such as gender identity and sexual orientation.
Fewer manatee deaths have been recorded so far this year in Florida compared to 2021 but wildlife officials caution that chronic starvation remains a dire and ongoing threat to the marine mammals.
The statue of Bethune, described as “a drum major for justice,” is the first time a state has honored a Black person in the U.S. Capitol collection, which features two statues from each state.
The executive order, in part, will require audits of pharmacy benefit managers that provide services in the state’s Medicaid managed-care program and the state-employee health insurance program.
A Miami man has been sentenced to 25 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to carjacking, brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence and possessing a firearm as a convicted felon.
New details from the confession letter written in a notebook found near the remains of Brian Laundrie in Myakkahatchee Park have been made public and the attorney for the Petito family is very concerned over the release.
The decision came a week before a new Florida law is scheduled to take effect that would prevent women from having abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy.
The issue centers on treatment for gender dysphoria, which the federal government defines as clinically “significant distress that a person may feel when sex or gender assigned at birth is not the same as their identity.”
Florida officials say the jabs will be available at pharmacies and community health centers, which can preorder them directly from the federal government.
DeSantis was in SW Miami-Dade, where he spoke about the invasive Burmese pythons and announced that registration to participate in this year’s challenge is now open.
Among other things, the school-safety measure will require law enforcement officers stationed at public schools to complete mental-health crisis intervention training.
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