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As the Legislature considers several bills that would alter or even expand gambling in Florida, the chairman of a key House panel said Tuesday the states need to acknowledge its status as a gaming state and find a more effective way to regulate the industry.
Former Florida House Speaker Ray Sansom, on trial for allegedly steering state funds to a project to benefit a big political contributor, watched for a second day as prosecutors tried to prove an airplane hanger he helped build was an illegal political plum.
Broward School Board member Ann Murray has been asked to resign for alleged racial slurs she made back in 2007 and reportedly never apologized for making, until now.
Is the key to raising a self-confident child treating them like adults when they're babies? There is a decades old parenting approach gaining momentum. It encourages children to be more independent and self confident.
A South Florida photojournalist has been released by Libyan forces after he and two other journalists covering the turmoil in Libya were detained at gunpoint.
A South Florida man with a long criminal history and convicted of raping a Boca Raton woman in 1989 was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday afternoon.
Broward's Sheriff feels the lines of reality and a reality show have become too blurred for comfort and he wants it to stop now.
Have you used an ATM that's not tied to your bank lately? If so, you're likely suffering sticker shock.
Former Broward Supervisor of Elections Miriam Oliphant is back on the Broward School Board's payroll as a guidance counselor, and not everyone is happy about her hiring, or her paycheck.
John Siple is 82 years old and depends on a walker to get around, but the Coral Springs resident is officially a hero.
A Miami-Dade teen who called police after seeing two men break into a neighbor's home was honored Tuesday.
The first candidate to file paperwork to fill former Miami-Dade County Commissioner Natacha Seijas' seat is State Rep. Esteban Bovo, a Hialeah Republican who was elected to the state house in 2008.
Two people were shot Tuesday evening at the entrance of Carpaccio restaurant, party of the exclusive Bal Harbour Shops, after a fight between two men injured one of them and a bystander, both with gunshot wounds.
The University of Miami football team has worked hard to distance itself from the criminal history of the past. But, for the first time since 2007, the Canes are now faced with the arrest of starting linebacker Ramon Buchanan on multiple charges, including two felonies.
While the threat of radiation in South Florida from Japan's nuclear crisis is virtually non-existent, Miami-Dade Fire Rescue wants the public to know they are prepared just in case something happens in the future that does affect South Florida.
