Four years ago, then Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama won Florida with the largest voter mobilization effort ever seen in Florida. This year’s effort could be even greater.
Awash in pride and anxiety, an Army Reserve Unit based in Miami gets a rousing send-off en route to Afghanistan.
This time, Pentagon defense lawyers are citing a new Guantánamo prison camp controversy involving inspection of confidential mail in their request for a delay in the Sept. 11 mass murder case.
The leading Republican candidate in the U.S. Senate race in Florida, Rep. Connie Mack, got national media exposure stumping across the state for state GOP primary winner Mitt Romney.
Police moved through the camp in downtown Miami Tuesday night, ejecting demonstrators and making a few arrests.
He wallops Gingrich with support of seniors, women and Hispanics statewide
The number of pain pills sold by doctors dropped 97 percent from 2010 to 2011, as a new law took effect that bans doctors from dispensing oxycodone from their offices.
Early ballots, yet uncounted, may transform Mitt Romney’s expected win into a rout over Newt Gingrich.
Freddie Mac, the taxpayer-owned mortgage giant, has placed multibillion-dollar bets that pay off if homeowners stay trapped in expensive mortgages with interest rates well above current rates.
A new study finds that the surge in invasive constrictors coincides with a dramatic decline in mammals in Everglades National Park, with raccoons, opossums and rabbits nearly vanishing since 2000
South Florida made a strong showing on the state’s first ranking of traditional public and charter schools.
Special-interest-group spending on TV ads has skyrocketed in the first presidential race since a U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturned a ban on campaign spending by corporations and labor unions, a study released Monday says.
In Florida’s Republican primary, Mitt Romney’s lead looks insurmountable — and he beats President Barack Obama in a head-to-head race, poll shows.
Most of the folks strolling, trotting and biking on the marina walk bordering Miami’s City Hall on a sunny Saturday morning — the last day for early voting in the Republican primary — clearly didn’t feel the yoke of weighty political choices. Every now and then, however, someone climbed the steps into a rear City Hall door to cast a ballot.
Newt Gingrich’s older daughter, Kathy G. Lubbers, has become an indispensable political advisor.
Members of a gay Republican group say they get their greatest criticism from other gays.
Incumbent Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson leads Rep. Connie Mack, the leading candidate among GOP Senate hopefuls in the U.S. Senate primary.
A U.S. Senate committee raised questions over Florida’s new election law at a field hearing in Tampa.
Rep. David Rivera introduced a bill to give undocumented immigrants legal residency, so long as they join the military.
The final debate in Florida for Republican presidential candidates found Mitt Romney sparring with Newt Gingrich as Ron Paul and Rick Santorum played the roles of foils.
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