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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 >>

An Iowa legislative panel has rejected a proposal requiring parents to report their missing children.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 >>

A South Florida man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for killing a man he suspected was sleeping with his wife.More >>

Florida Gov. Rick Scott is losing yet another agency head after just a year in office.More >>

Crimes and homicides at the nation's public school have declined, part of a downward trend seen over the past several years.More >>

A bill that would revise the state's new ban on designer drugs commonly known as "bath salts" has cleared the Florida House.More >>

Emergency management officials say there's a high risk of rip currents along some of Florida's Atlantic coast beaches.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 >>

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 >>

A suspected serial rapist faces additional charges after a fourth victim has accused him of taking her to the woods and raping her at gunpoint.More >>

Detectives say they're investigating the "suspicious" death of a woman whose husband says he accidentally shot her while cleaning his gun.More >>

Residents of central Palm Beach County are being warned to be on the lookout for rabid animals.More >>

Ave Maria University officials have filed suit against the federal government over a contraception mandate that has riled Catholic institutions.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 >>

School superintendents say proposed changes to Florida's school grading system would be unfair and cause needless failures.More >>

A bid to give Florida's two major research universities wide power overt tuition keeps moving through the Legislature.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 >>

The House Appropriations Committee has cleared a revised version of a measure that allows state agencies to randomly drug-test employees.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 >>

A north Florida man has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for a fatal home invasion.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 >>

Police say a 54-year-old elementary school teacher died during a President's Day fishing trip.More >>

A hazardous material team and the bomb squad are at the scene of an attempted gasoline theft in the Tampa Bay area.More >>

Police say a caretaker left a 95-year-old woman in a car for almost two hours while she went gambling in a South Florida casino.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 >>

The Florida Book Awards has announced its 2012 winners.More >>

The Senate's budget panel is expected to consider a statewide texting-while-driving ban that has eluded passage for several years.More >>

Authorities say a central Florida doctor who died in a fire at his home last year apparently killed himself.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 >>

Two Florida universities could soon have wide power to decide how much to charge students.More >>

A central Florida sheriff's office says it has arrested more than 50 drug dealers in a crackdown on street-level drug sales.More >>

Police say a bicyclist has died in southwest Florida after being struck by a car and falling from a bridge into a river.More >>

The Coast Guard says three men had to be rescued from their capsized catamaran in the Gulf of Mexico off Florida.More >>

Authorities say a kite surfer is recovering after colliding with a building.More >>

A central Florida county mayor says she supports expanding a domestic partners registry already on the books in Orlando.More >>

Orlando police say two suspects are hospitalized in stable condition after being shot in separate confrontations with officers.More >>

A steady stream of mourners has paid their respects to a north Florida detective killed while investigating a tip about a meth lab.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 >>

Authorities say a South Florida police officer shot and killed a man armed with a flare gun.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 >>

Funeral plans are set for a north Florida detective killed while investigating a tip about a meth lab.More >>

Researchers are hoping some lab-raised corals will thrive in the Atlantic Ocean off South Florida.More >>

Authorities say a pastor's daughter accidentally shot in the head in a Florida church has died.More >>

Veterans of NASA's Project Mercury have landed in Cape Canaveral this weekend to celebrate 50 years of orbital flight.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 >>

A north Florida sheriff says his deputies acted "by the book" in a drug raid shootout that left one detective dead and another wounded.More >>

Authorities say firefighters have extinguished a fire at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa.More >>

A $90,000 project to clean up Fanning Springs to attract manatees seems to have worked.More >>

A South Florida man is facing 144 counts of child pornography possession and authorities say more charges are likely.More >>

A central Florida man has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for causing a fatal crash while trying to escape police.More >>

Authorities have apprehended a woman who was wanted for allegedly killing her 1-year-old son.More >>

Authorities in South Florida have arrested a man suspected of stealing an expensive Rolex watch at an airport security checkpoint.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 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 >>

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 >>

Two South Florida men will serve life in prison after they were convicted of drugging women and filming rapes of them for sale as pornography.More >>

Bodies of the five Georgians killed in a Florida highway crash are being flown to Brazil for burial.More >>

Bodies of the five Georgians killed in a horrific interstate crash in Florida are being flown to Brazil for burial.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 >>

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 >>

Two claims bills that are top priorities for Senate President Mike Haridopolos are finally getting a hearing in the House.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 bill that would create a task force on babies born addicted to their mothers' prescription drugs has passed in the Florida House.More >>

A Tampa Bay area woman who ran a home daycare has been convicted in an infant girl's death.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 >>

A child protection bill filed in response to the death of an 11-year-old girl after chronic abuse has cleared the Florida House.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 >>

A Sarasota County juror was sentenced to three days in jail after contacting a defendant through Facebook.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 >>

Two of three fugitive siblings who were the focus of a nationwide manhunt last summer have pleaded guilty to reduced charges in Colorado.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 >>

The new chairman of the Florida Board of Governors says it may have delegated too much authority to individual universities' boards of trustees.More >>

Two astronauts aboard the International Space Station are taking a spacewalk.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 >>