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Kendrick Meek hopes to get his name before a new segment of the electorate by paying to have his name splashed on a NASCAR race car Saturday.
As a volatile election season gets underway, the Republican Party of Florida is facing its biggest crisis of confidence in decades.
Donors and party activists are livid over newly revealed records that suggest outgoing chairman Jim Greer used the party as a personal slush fund for lavish travel and entertainment.South Florida tea-party activists stayed away from the national gathering in Nashville, with local leaders preferring to work locally.
Even with Florida's class size amendment, are the state's classrooms averaging more students than other southeastern states?
Florida's transportation secretary didn't duck the state public records law, despite e-mails with subjects that include ``pancake'' and ``French Toast,'' a report says.
A Florida GOP fundraiser put everything from golfing fees to $3,000 meal tabs on his party-issued credit card, records show.
Lucrative payments to a party official anger state Republican leaders as the GOP's finances remain in the red.
U.S. Senate rivals Charlie Crist and Marco Rubio are staking out different positions on whether the U.S. Ce...
Florida Juvenile Justice Secretary Frank Peterman and three deputies gave up their take-home cars after a r...
After a day of doubt following Tuesday's primary, Edward Lynch won the Republican nod to face Democrat Ted ...
Jeb Bush's Medicaid reform program is showing signs of success, but it might die in the Republican-led Legi...
Florida Juvenile Justice Secretary Frank Peterman has reimbursed his agency for about $25,000 in travel exp...
President Barack Obama wound up debating Republican House members during a meeting whose intent was to fost...
President Barack Obama's visit to the University of Tampa felt more like a campaign rally than a town-hall ...
Put yourself in Charlie's shoes. You're standing there on the big MacDill Air Force Base tarmac, first...
Amid declining poll numbers and political fortunes, President Barack Obama on Thursday tried to reconnect w...
President Barack Obama dashed from a Navy hangar in Jacksonville to a swanky Miami Beach hotel Monday to bu...
Congressional negotiators are divided over how to raise taxes to pay for overhauling the nation's healt...
Congressional negotiators have agreed to drop an amendment to a defense approrpiations bill that would have...
Lebanon's pro-Western political parties turned their focus Monday toward crafting a stable coalition go...
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has given the new U.S. commander in Afghanistan 60 days to conduct anothe...
One of the Cairo cafe questions debated in the days leading up to the speech was: Would Obama say "salaam" ...
President Barack Obama told Americans Tuesday to brace for "more job loss, more foreclosures, and more...
With both of Texas' U.S. Senate seats held by Republicans, the White House on Wednesday said it has asked t...
The Senate on Wednesday easily confirmed former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk as the U.S. trade representative, mak...
President Barack Obama's popular support is eroding, as a new poll by the independent Pew Research Cent...
Calling this a "day of reckoning" for years of mistakes, President Barack Obama worked Tuesday night to ass...
Florida's transportation secretary didn't duck the state public records law, despite e-mails with subjects ...
Lucrative payments to a party official anger state Republican leaders as the GOP's finances remain in the red.
Jeb Bush's Medicaid reform program is showing signs of success, but it might die in the Republican-led Legi...
A Senate committee puts an ethics bill on the fast track for utility regulators.
Is Charlie Crist's Senate campaign poised to sink like the Titanic, or will the governor outmaneuver Marco ...
A last-ditch attempt by state Rep. Ray Sansom to dismiss or delay charges that he damaged the Legislature's...
Legislators take up a proposal to tighten ethics loopholes at the state's utility regulation panel.
Public corruption prosecutors still plan to press federal charges against other people associated with indi...
Gov. Charlie Crist wants the Legislature to adopt a state budget for next year of $69.2 billion that relies...
The latest poll and fundraising results show Gov. Charlie Crist is slipping behind former Florida House Spe...
Utility regulators have asked FPL to justify its claim that it will suspend projects after it didn't get th...
Kendrick Meek hopes to get his name before a new segment of the electorate by paying to have his name splas...
As a volatile election season gets underway, the Republican Party of Florida is facing its biggest crisis o...
South Florida tea-party activists stayed away from the national gathering in Nashville, with local leaders ...
Even with Florida's class size amendment, are the state's classrooms averaging more students than other sou...
Florida's transportation secretary didn't duck the state public records law, despite e-mails with subjects ...
Lucrative payments to a party official anger state Republican leaders as the GOP's finances remain in the red.
Florida Juvenile Justice Secretary Frank Peterman and three deputies gave up their take-home cars after a r...
After a day of doubt following Tuesday's primary, Edward Lynch won the Republican nod to face Democrat Ted ...
Is Charlie Crist's Senate campaign poised to sink like the Titanic, or will the governor outmaneuver Marco ...
A Senate committee puts an ethics bill on the fast track for utility regulators.
Jeb Bush's Medicaid reform program is showing signs of success, but it might die in the Republican-led Legi...
At first blush, it seems like a godsend for U.S. foreign policy: a tenacious Iranian opposition, democratic...
The Senate Tuesday failed to advance President Barack Obama's nomination of a union lawyer to the National ...
The Senate Tuesday failed to advance President Barack Obama's nomination of a union lawyer to the Natio...
President Barack Obama urged Republicans Tuesday to work with him and Democratic lawmakers on ways to creat...
Democratic former Virginia Gov. L. Douglas Wilder is urging President Barack Obama to fire Democratic Natio...
President Barack Obama urged Republicans Tuesday to work with him and Democratic lawmakers on ways to creat...
Attorney General Dan Sullivan has proposed new state rules establishing when it's appropriate for the state...
As of Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010, at least 4,375 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it ...
North Carolina Republican Tim D'Annunzio's "Machine Gun Social" announcement elicited plenty of attacks on ...
In a first for U.S. diplomacy, the State Department has used Twitter to announce an upcoming overseas trip ...
Even the White House's top spokesman is getting in on the act of mocking former Republican vice presidentia...
Haitian senators want to oust the country's prime minister, claiming she has moved too slowly in addressing...
Facing a severe and protracted economic downturn, Cuba's government is scaling back socialism in an attemp...
A Cuban blogger who has become an international sensation for offering frank criticism of her country's com...
Bills in Congress to allow all travel to Cuba are increasingly drawing support among U.S. lawmakers and the...
Argentina's president and the nation's largest media conglomerate square off over a media-reform bill that ...
The two sides in the Honduran political conflict had direct talks for the first time in almost three months.
A trio of South Florida Republican lawmakers said Tuesday that the remedy to the post-coup woes in Honduras...
A U.S. president has limited ways to ease the embargo on Cuba -- unless he or she certifies that Havana is ...
A top Obama administration official urged Honduras' political leaders to accept a deal aimed at ending thei...
Costa Rican leader Oscar Arias said a restrictive decree suspending some civil rights in Honduras remained ...
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton said Haiti enjoyed the backing of its Latin American neighbors more than...
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After being spooked by a bigger dog and taking a plunge into choppy waters, Bentley swam about a half mile to safety.
A new hockey program for girls on Key Biscayne has immediately attracted a strong following.
Student chefs cook with school-grown herbs, vegetables in classroom kitchen.
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Miami's cover band The Bushmen got to jam for Saints and Colts fans before the big game
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