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Florida schools have lots of problems. The state cut budgets to the bone, and local taxpayers are hard pressed to make up the difference. Teachers are being fired. Programs are being cut. And in Lake County, in the heart of the state, the response from the school board is to ban students from wearing orange hair, bangs, and make-up that hides their eyes.
Miami-Dade College has become the largest public college in the country, but the school could be in trouble. The college has been warned it could have its accreditation pulled if the school doesn't fix a problem of overcrowding and under-staffing.
Florida's surgeon general has temporarily suspended part of the state's new "pill mill" legislation that requires doctors to use new prescription pads meant to be counterfeit-proof.
The outrage over the not guilty verdict in the Casey Anthony trial has reached the Florida Legislature.
Everybody is trying to cut skyrocketing health care costs, including the University of Florida. In a first for the state, President Bernie Machen wants to opt-out of the State health insurance program for employees, and run one just for the University.
Gov. Rick Scott on Friday signed a bill that will provide a $30 million cut in corporate-income taxes, a relatively small step in Scott's campaign to phase out the tax.
Gov. Rick Scott has signed two abortion bills into law. Among the other laws Scott signed Friday was a law that would set limits on lawsuits against nonprofit Florida teaching hospitals and their staffs.
A Florida legislative panel Friday rejected millions in federal money designed to help remove patients from nursing homes and provide them with similar care in their own homes.
There may be some changes to school nutrition after Gov. Rick Scott has signed a bill giving the state's agriculture commissioner authority over school food programs. Scott also signed a bill limiting lawsuits against automakers.
Children's advocates in Florida are ramping up their calls for cuts to early childhood education and daycare programs to be reversed. The budget approved by the legislature reduces funding to the Voluntary Pre-K and School Readiness programs by nearly $90 million.
The Florida Supreme Court said police don't need to explicitly tell suspects they can have a lawyer with them when being questioned.
Gov. Rick Scott has signed a bill creating a new state agency to promote Florida business and economic development.
Forty years ago Florida voters implemented on corporate income after their new governor stumped the state with a pair of Sears shirts, one bought in the state and the other in neighboring Georgia, which already had that tax.
Armed with fresh documents that show online travel companies may have conspired to avoid paying more than $440 million in taxes in Florida, a state legislator is urging Attorney General Pam Bondi to force the travel giants to pay up.
Even though Florida hasn't been hit by a hurricane since Wilma in 2005, insurance companies who do business in the state say they're losing money despite collecting billions in premiums.
Among the bills already filed for the legislative session that starts in January are a proposed constitutional amendment and accompanying bill that would give Florida voters the ability to recall the governor and lieutenant governor, state legislators, and Cabinet members.
Gov. Rick Scott plans to sign legislation on Friday aimed at curbing prescription drug abuse, holding signing ceremonies in three different cities around the state including one in South Florida.
Florida lawmakers last month extended a financial break for tobacco companies that face a crush of lawsuits because of smoking-related illnesses. But the move came amid a legal challenge that argues the break is unconstitutional because it gives special treatment to cigarette makers.
Florida teachers will learn Wednesday about the new test-based teacher evaluation formula that the state is set to approve.
Gov. Rick Scott has signed a bill that creates a three-day sales tax holiday for back to school shopping.
Governor Rick Scott signed HB 1039 Tuesday that bans the possession of "bath salts."
Expect challenges to a bill signed by Governor Rick Scott which will require welfare applicants to undergo drug testing.
Governor Rick Scott claimed to be the jobs governor and a man of the people when he took office in January. After failing to create jobs, cutting jobs, and passing drastic cuts in his first budget, it's safe to say the people are sick of Rick Scott.
Lawmakers in a Miami-Dade delegation full of political rookies vowed unity during this year's legislative session. And they kept their promise, for the most part, in a year when distinct personalities emerged in the crop of new faces, along with victories along the way.
Newly elected Republican Florida Governor Rick Scott said the state had a "great" Legislative session, but not everyone agrees.
The report said it was an anonymous citizen who went to the Miami police station and told the front desk that there was a beige SUV in their apartment complex that matched the description of surveillance video they saw on the local news.
The trip occurs during a period when U.S. ships have halted oil shipments to the Caribbean country, and President Trump has threatened to impose tariffs on any country that ships oil there.
Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr did not name specific networks, but his post included a reference to a Saturday morning Truth Social post from the president.
His predecessor, Pope Francis, lived in a simple apartment in the Santa Marta guesthouse in the Vatican.
TSA officers faced their first full missed paycheck Friday.
The report said it was an anonymous citizen who went to the Miami police station and told the front desk that there was a beige SUV in their apartment complex that matched the description of surveillance video they saw on the local news.
The trip occurs during a period when U.S. ships have halted oil shipments to the Caribbean country, and President Trump has threatened to impose tariffs on any country that ships oil there.
Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr did not name specific networks, but his post included a reference to a Saturday morning Truth Social post from the president.
TSA officers faced their first full missed paycheck Friday.
U.S. Navy Seaman 1st Class Clyde C. McMeans, 26, was one of the 103 USS California crewmen killed during attacks on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
In courtroom testimony, Shandelle Maycock recounted the harrowing night her daughter was abandoned in the Everglades, describing the horrors they endured.
A former prison guard trainee has been sentenced to death for the 2019 execution-style killings of five women inside a Florida bank.
Florida coach Billy Napier is getting a fourth season to try to get the Gators back to their winning ways.
A Florida man has filed a federal lawsuit against Jacksonville sheriff's officers who severely beat him last year after he ran from a traffic stop.
The Marion County Sheriff's deputy told authorities that he accidentally shot and killed his girlfriend while cleaning his gun.
Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr did not name specific networks, but his post included a reference to a Saturday morning Truth Social post from the president.
TSA officers faced their first full missed paycheck Friday.
The State Department is seeking information on Iran's new supreme leader and nine other "key leaders" in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
With oil markets paralyzed by the U.S.-Iran war, the Trump administration says it could escort ships through the Strait of Hormuz — a massive undertaking that experts say could already be in the preparatory stages.
Jan Carey was facing two misdemeanor criminal counts in Washington, D.C., federal court.
In a wide-ranging CBS News Miami interview with Jim DeFede, Byron Donalds discussed his troubled past, tensions with Gov. Ron DeSantis and his political views.
For the first time, Donalds acknowledges that he didn't just possess marijuana, but that he was also dealing at the time.
The measure was pushed by the Freedom Foundation, a right-wing think tank funded by billionaires, whose intention is to eliminate public sector unions.
Frank Mora noted that the Trump Administration does not want the total collapse of the Cuban government because it could prompt an exodus of refugees from the island to the United States.
Any change to the property tax system would have to be approved by voters in November, and it seemed unlikely the House plan was going to be approved by the Senate.
Food containing norovirus may smell and taste normal but still cause serious illness if consumed, FDA warns.
HHS Secretary RFK Jr. wants the popular coffee chains to prove their surgery drinks are safe for teens and suggested the Trump administration could place limits on your cup of coffee.
Tests of dozens of baby formulas by Consumer Reports found that nearly half contained potentially dangerous chemicals.
A trial has been set in the San Francisco Bay Area for a Florida woman accused of providing a cosmetic injection that killed a woman who was known as a Kim Kardashian lookalike, prosecutors said.
The Sunshine state is on track to be the second-highest, with only nine cases behind Utah, and the numbers lagging by five days.
A lawsuit filed late last month took Chicago-based McDonald's to task over the McRib sandwich, calling its name a form of false advertising.
Florida insurance policyholders could be seeing some form of relief in their wallets thanks to market reforms made statewide, Gov. Ron DeSantis said.
The company said Tuesday that 85% of its retail products and "nearly all" of its school offerings are already made without "certified colors."
Less than two days after Delta Air Lines offered $30,000 to each passenger on board the flight that crashed and flipped in Toronto on Monday afternoon, the company is facing its first two lawsuits in the incident — and they likely won't be the last.
Activists are calling for a nationwide boycott of Target stores following the company's decision to roll back its diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.
Watch scenes from the performances nominated for best supporting actor at the 98th annual Academy Awards, as well as interviews with the nominees.
A woman was arrested on Sunday for firing multiple shots at the Beverly Hills home of Rihanna, Los Angeles Police Department officials say.
Savannah Guthrie thanked her colleagues for "caring about my mom as much as I do" in her visit to the studio since Nancy Guthrie's disappearance.
A trial has been set in the San Francisco Bay Area for a Florida woman accused of providing a cosmetic injection that killed a woman who was known as a Kim Kardashian lookalike, prosecutors said.
Hillary Knight, Megan Keller and Jack and Quinn Hughes made a surprise appearance during "Heated Rivalry" star Connor Storrie's opening monologue on "SNL."