A federal judge has ruled that BP PLC and one of its minority partners in the blown-out Macondo well are liable for civil penalties under the Clean Water Act for their roles in the nation's worst offshore oil spill.More >>
A Florida state lawmaker has admitted he repeatedly sent suggestive, harassing emails to a married female federal prosecutor for more than three-months last fall.More >>
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is urging the Florida Supreme Court not to cut the number of minority majority and minority opportunity legislative districts.More >>
Sophomore LaKaris Salter hit a game-winning 3-pointer at the buzzer to lift Tallahassee FAMU to a 55-53 victory over Hollywood Christian in the Florida High School Athletic Association Class 2A girls basketball championship...More >>
Three Florida men, including the president of The Villages retirement community, have been sentenced for misdemeanor poaching violations in Montana.More >>
Florida Gov. Rick Scott is losing yet another agency head after just a year in office. Jack Miles, the secretary of the Department of Management Services, resigned from his $140,000 a year job on Tuesday. Two other agency...More >>
Jasmine Flock scored 26 points and grabbed 12 rebounds to lead Ponce de Leon to a 55-52 victory over Newberry in the Florida High School Athletic Association Class 1A girls basketball championship game.More >>
Ryan Howard took live batting practice for the first time since he tore his left Achilles tendon while making the final out of the Philadelphia Phillies' season-ending 1-0 loss to St. Louis last postseason. The big...More >>
Attorney Jose Baez says he is no longer representing Casey Anthony, the Florida mother whose murder trial last summer made him one of the best known criminal defense lawyers in the country.More >>
Monthly rates will go up $4.93 a month next year for a typical Progress Energy Florida customer due to a settlement that has received state approval.More >>
Attorney Jose Baez says he is no longer representing Casey Anthony, the Florida mother whose murder trial last summer made him one of the best known criminal defense lawyers in the country.More >>
A former business partner of State Rep. Vern Buchanan says he was responsible for improperly reimbursing employees for contributions they made to Buchanan's congressional campaigns.More >>
The world's largest phosphate miner has reached an agreement with environmental groups that filed suit to block the company's plans to dig up thousands of acres of wetlands.More >>
Authorities say a 25-year-old north Florida man facing child porn and sexual battery charges told them he is a "monster" who should've never been born.More >>
Leaving nothing to chance, the U.S. military is making sure the transfer of 17 tons of shipwreck treasure to Spain later this week is handled safely.More >>
Ave Maria University officials have filed suit against the federal government over a contraception mandate that has riled Catholic institutions.More >>
A federal judge in Miami is hearing arguments on the constitutionality of Gov. Rick Scott's executive order requiring drug testing for thousands of state workers.More >>
A Senate panel will consider a proposed law that allows some inmates who were sentenced to life imprisonment as teenagers to get a "second chance."More >>
Lawyers for a tow company owner who claims he fatally shot a man in self-defense are dropping their effort to invoke Florida's "stand your ground" law.More >>
A new program hosted by the Culinary Institute of America is teaching wounded veterans who served during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars to cook healthy meals.More >>
Spanish planes will fly into Tampa's MacDill Air Force Base to pick up a vast shipwreck treasure that Spain wrested away from Florida deep-sea explorers.More >>
NFL defensive lineman Albert Haynesworth has finished half of the community service he is required to do as a result of a plea deal in a case in which he was accused of touching a waitress' breast at a Washington hotel.More >>
Jurors have recommended that a central Florida man spend the rest of his life in prison for killing his estranged wife and a man she was living with.More >>
Two environmental groups plan to sue if the federal government doesn't agree to remove the Rodman Reservoir dam that's a vestige of the ill-fated Cross Florida Barge Canal.More >>
Pasco County Sheriff's deputies have arrested a 15-year-old for allegedly mixing some common household items into an acid bomb inside a soda bottle. They say he threw it into a trash can at school.More >>
The family of a man who killed himself on Valentine's Day found a decomposing body inside a garbage can taped shut in the back yard of his home near Tampa.More >>
A Louisiana woman who was a cook on the BP PLC-leased drilling rig that was rocked by a deadly explosion in 2010 has settled her personal-injury claims against the oil giant and other companies involved in the disaster.More >>
A federal judge has put off a former NFL player's sentencing to give prosecutors time to notify possible fraud victims in Mississippi, Tennessee, Florida and Arizona.More >>
Rocker Bret Michaels and Grammy-winning singer Cyndi Lauper were expected to usher in Mardi Gras with musical performances in the wee hours of the morning Tuesday during a glitzy ball following the Orpheus parade.More >>
President Barack Obama plans to raise money in Florida this week, including a $30,000 a person event at the Windermere, Fla., home of Dallas Mavericks guard Vince Carter. He also will promote his economic agenda in a speech...More >>
The incoming Senate president is opposing a proposal that would allow state lawmakers to wrap themselves in absolute immunity from having to testify in lawsuits.More >>
A Senate panel has cleared a bill that aims to streamline and speed up the state's foreclosure process. But critics say a speeded-up process will infringe on homeowners' rights.More >>
John Glenn says being able to speak live with the International Space Station was a "great surprise" as he celebrated the 50th anniversary of his historic spaceflight.More >>
A Florida girl who fell 100 feet from a Wisconsin amusement park ride has returned to the state for the first time since the accident, walking up to a news conference at a Madison hospital under her own power.More >>
Tampa Bay-area police say a woman angry about the time it was taking to get service in a fast-food restaurant's drive-thru lane rammed another car and then sped away.More >>
Carnival in New Orleans is building toward the out-of-control crescendo of Fat Tuesday. But Barry Kern and his team of float-builders and artists are already planning for next year's party.More >>
Badly trailing in the polls, former Sen. George LeMieux tried to distinguish himself from Republican Senate frontrunner Rep. Connie Mack IV on federal spending, immigration and the United Nations.More >>
A federal judge in Florida has ruled that specific limits on sewage, manure and fertilizer contamination in state waters must take effect March 6.More >>
The jackpot in the Florida Lotto game has grown to $7 million after no one matched all six winning numbers in the latest drawing, lottery officials said Sunday.More >>
Florida lawmakers are considering a plan to revamp part of the state's hurricane insurance system and are wrestling with an age-old question: should consumers pay a little extra now or possibly a lot more later?More >>
Notoriety over a costumed ice cream cone mascot mistaken by passersby for a Ku Klux Klan protestor apparently did not result more customers for a Florida ice cream shop.More >>
Allegiant Air is ending its short-lived service between Lexington and Las Vegas this spring, but it will continue to service flights between the Blue Grass Airport and Florida.More >>
A Florida Panhandle man faces dozens of animal cruelty charges after authorities said they found skeletal remains and animals living in poor conditions at his home.More >>
Documents show that Florida A&M University police investigated at least 10 complaints about hazing involving the school's famed marching band between August 2007 and November, when a band member died after being...More >>
An appellate court has sided with a Leon County man who argued that being convicted of resisting an officer without violence doesn't mean he should have to go to anti-domestic violence training.More >>
The Coast Guard recently seized nearly two tons of cocaine and 940 pounds of marijuana after intercepting two different speedboats in the Caribbean Sea.More >>
A minority partner in BP's blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico has agreed to pay $90 million in a settlement with the federal government and Gulf states to resolve allegations the company violated the Clean Water Act.More >>
A federal appeals court has reinstated the indictment against a woman who had been charged for her alleged role in a traffic stop that ended with the killings of two Tampa police officers.More >>
The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation says a 17-month-old Waurika girl who was allegedly abducted by her father has been found safe in Florida.More >>
A lone angry protester has shouted down Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll as she was delivering a keynote address for Florida A&M University's black history month convocation.More >>
Two students have withdrawn from a north Florida high school after a 14-minute video blog filled with racial epithets and stereotypes went viral.More >>
Four people representing three generations of a north Florida family are behind bars after deputies say they were working together to manufacture methamphetamine.More >>
Police say two men were shot in the leg during a New Orleans parade that's part of the run-up to Mardi Gras, and a 16-year-old boy was arrested.More >>
The Florida Highway Patrol says a driver who veered onto the shoulder of Interstate 75 because of a "medical incident" struck and killed a man who was working on his stalled car.More >>
Four north Florida bus drivers have been suspended after the Jacksonville Transportation Authority found out their driver's licenses were not valid.More >>
Millions of people worldwide are held in modern slavery and sex trafficking, and experts say that's more than at the height of the trans-Atlantic slave trade.More >>
Most people think of New Orleans when they hear the words "Mardi Gras." But the Southern tradition is celebrated in plenty of other places along the Gulf Coast.More >>
Florida deep-sea explorers lost their legal bid to keep a half million silver coins and other treasure raised from a Spanish shipwreck. Now Spain wants to know when and how it will be handed over.More >>
Another former associate of convicted billion-dollar Ponzi scheme operator Scott Rothstein is set to plead guilty to federal fraud conspiracy charges.More >>
Authorities say a Clay County Sheriff's Office narcotics detective investigating a tip related to drugs at a Middleburg home and another man have been killed in a gunfight.More >>
A former New York police officer has admitted accepting cash payments in exchange for permitting the transport of prescription drug trafficking proceeds through Westchester County Airport.More >>
Hall of Fame catcher Gary Carter, whose single for the New York Mets in the 1986 World Series touched off one of the most improbable rallies in baseball, died Thursday. He was 57.More >>
The House Judiciary Committee has cleared a bill that would give all current and former state lawmakers and their staff absolute immunity against having to testify for a civil court proceeding.More >>
A judge has refused to dismiss a murder charge under the "Stand Your Ground" law in the fatal stabbing of a Florida International University football player.More >>
A Miami-Dade jury has awarded $3.3 million to a man who was trying to cash a check but was then detained after a Bank of America teller activated a silent alarm.More >>
A bill that would have let certain illegal immigrants pay in-state tuition at Florida colleges and universities is dead in the Republican-controlled Legislature.More >>
Legislation moving quickly in the Republican-controlled Legislature would let parents "trigger" the turnover of failing public schools to private management.More >>
The new chairman of the Florida Board of Governors says it may have delegated too much authority to individual universities' boards of trustees.More >>
A federal judge has acquitted four former insurance company executives on charges of defrauding $20 million from the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund.More >>
The jackpot in the Florida Lotto game has grown to $6 million after no one matched all six winning numbers in the latest drawing, lottery officials said Thursday.More >>
Gov. Rick Scott and Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater are getting a first-hand look at the kind of staged automobile accidents that are costing Floridians millions of dollars on their insurance bills.More >>
Republican Mitt Romney is faltering with white working-class voters crucial to his party's drive to capture the White House, even as he tries to fend off a rising GOP challenger, Rick Santorum, who wields strong...More >>