Senate Targets Texting While Driving Fatalities
A Senate committee Tuesday approved a bill that would toughen penalties for people who cause fatal accidents while texting behind the wheel.
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A Senate committee Tuesday approved a bill that would toughen penalties for people who cause fatal accidents while texting behind the wheel.
Improving Hispanic academic performance with the subject of a discussion by a White House education committee meeting in Miami.
The Florida Legislature took time out of normal business Tuesday to honor the BCS National Champion Florida State Seminoles.
A Senate committee has approved a bill that would toughen penalties for identity theft and send money to three counties in South Florida for beefed-up law enforcement.
Governor Rick Scott has asked the secretary of the state's main health agency to order inspections for federal hospitals that serve veterans.
espite multiple repeal efforts, tens of millions of dollars spent in campaign ads against it, and an entire party building its policy on getting rid of it, the Affordable Care Act has managed to do two things, survive and thrive.
Visitors packed the Mall of the Americas Monday night to shop for health insurance.
Florida voters hoping to register online will have to wait another year after the sponsor of a Senate bill that would have allowed Internet sign-ups essentially dropped the measure Monday.
Governor Rick Scott returned to South Florida on Monday and met with families as a show of support for those affected by the crisis in Venezuela.
In a brutal GOP primary four years ago, now-Gov. Rick Scott blistered opponent Bill McCollum in a television ad highlighting McCollum's opposition to an Arizona-style immigration law.
Veterans will receive some additional benefits now that Governor Rick Scott has signed the "Florida GI" bill.
A bill that would increase the speed limit on Florida's interstates from 70 to 75 mph are zipping through the state Legislature.
In a case that involved a man getting hit in the head with a tomahawk, a divided Florida Supreme Court has ruled that another man involved in an altercation outside a Miami-Dade County bar could be held liable.
With legislative leaders saying they want to make the state more military friendly, Gov. Rick Scott on Monday is expected to sign legislation known as the "Florida GI Bill."
The film and television industry in Florida is looking to Tallahassee lawmakers for new funding for an incentive program designed to attract production to the state.
