Florida News

One in four states have made the cutbacks in their Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection programs, according to the Avon Foundation for Women .

State revenue forecasters gave the Florida Legislature a little good news today: The House and Senate won't have to lower their income expectations in building an already dismal state budget for the fiscal year starting July 1. But they're not going to have new money to spend, either.

The Republican Party of Florida is demanding the Florida Democratic Party drop an elections complaint.

Republican candidate for governor Bradley Byrne has picked up an endorsement from former Florida Gov.

The sponsor calls it a "hammer." The head of Florida's statewide teachers union says it's more like a "nuclear weapon." It's a provision in a wide-ranging teacher quality bill penalizing school districts that fail to adopt merit pay plans by cutting part of their state funding and forcing them to make up for it by increasing local property taxes.

There are now 2.56 million Floridians on food stamps. More than one out of every eight residents, 13.6 percent of the population, rely on the program to help put food on the table.

Florida lawmakers are considering longer jail terms for teachers who take sexual advantage of underage students.

SeaWorld and the family of a trainer slain by a killer whale want to prevent video of the attack from becoming public.

As a result of the operation, police arrested the following twenty people for prostitution and solicitation for prostitution.

Rising property taxes, failing eyesight and even a tumble that cracked her tailbone haven't forced 89-year-old Angeline DiBeneditto from the home she's had for more than six decades.

Some Florida teachers say they are afraid of proposed legislation that would award merit pay based on how their students perform in class.

The murder trial of a Florida mother charged with murdering her 2-year-old daughter won't start until May 2011, almost three years after the toddler disappeared.

As they stripped off their sweatshirts and began to toss around a football, Justin Gibson and three college friends had just what they needed to kick off a weeklong vacation from snow and studying for exams.

Floridians can get a unique look at the late Princess Diana's wardrobe. Twenty of Diana's dresses will go on display Saturday at the von Liebig Art Center in Naples.

Sun American Bank, of Boca Raton, Florida, which served Miami Beach, Miami, Coral Gables, Doral, Hollywood, Boca Raton, Delray Beach, Boynton Beach, Palm Beach Gardens, Tequesta, and Stuart was closed Friday by the Florida Office of Financial Regulation.

On Tuesday, the Florida Legislature passed legislation that will help keep Floridians working, prevent layoffs, bring a degree of economic certainty to help create new jobs and foster economic growth in Florida.

A Birmingham neurosurgeon has died after the plane he was flying crashed into the Gulf of Mexico off the Florida Panhandle.

A University of Central Florida student diving in an underwater cave has been found dead.

A constant refrain for the Sink gubernatorial campaign is one railing against "career politicians", namely her Republican opponent for Governor and fellow cabinet member, Attorney General Bill McCollum, and now she's set her sights on Governor Charlie Crist, who she feels is merely another careerist in Florida's government.

Federal officials on Thursday named Florida, along with 14 other states and Washington, D.C., a finalist to receive a share of $4.35 billion aimed at sweeping education reform."We're very excited about that," Monroe County Schools Superintendent Joseph Burke told the Keynoter Thursday afternoon.Race to the Top winners are to be chosen in April.