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Public schools will be required to teach students at least five hours of mental health instruction beginning in 6th grade, under a mandate approved by the state Board of Education Wednesday and hailed by Florida's top educator as a "life saver."
A prison inmate used a smuggled cellphone to shoot video of several guards punching an inmate who was being held on the ground.
A lawsuit was filed Tuesday over a new law that forces local law enforcement agencies to cooperate with federal immigration officials.
A new study reveals Florida is the 6th most-popular vacation home hot spot in the country.
Every building at the Plantation shopping center where a massive explosion took place a week ago has been deemed unsafe.
A customer told a Florida Burger King Manager to "go back to Mexico" if he wanted to keep speaking Spanish.
The Florida Highway Patrol will be cracking down on speeders across the state in a week-long enforcement campaign.
Hollywood police are looking for a man who viciously attacked a hotel owner six weeks ago.
Get ready to grab your tickle stick, Florida divers and lobster lovers will soon be diving the depths for the state's annual two-day lobster mini-season.
A Florida man has been sentenced to 70 years in federal prison for recording himself having sex with a 1-year-old child.
The number of manatee deaths caused by watercraft could hit an all-time high in Florida this year.
Authorities said a 16-year-old girl was attacked Friday by a shark at a Florida beach.
Federal authorities have charged a third person in Florida with taking part in a massive weapons smuggling operation to South America.
Florida will seek new bids in three years instead of renewing its contract with the company that oversaw last year's botched SunPass conversion.
In recent months, the Trump administration's attempts to include a controversial citizenship question on the 2020 U.S. Census have irked Florida Democrats, who fear such an inquiry could lead to an undercount of the state's population.
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Florida's law requiring pot operators to grow, process and distribute cannabis and related products created an "oligopoly" and runs afoul of a constitutional amendment that broadly legalized medical marijuana in the Sunshine State, an appellate court ruled Tuesday.
Part of a new elections law that requires "sufficient nonpermitted parking" at early voting sites will create an unconstitutional burden on young voters attending colleges or universities, plaintiffs in a long-running dispute over campus early voting argued in documents filed Monday.
Within hours of Gov. Ron DeSantis signing a bill Wednesday to replace the Miami-Dade County Expressway Authority, attorneys for the authority renewed a court fight to try to block the changes.
Florida has had its scares with "flesh-eating bacteria" over the past few weeks and as millions of Americans head to the coast this holiday week, there are new concerns about the rare and potentially deadly bacteria found in warm waters.
With a legal battle already brewing about the issue, Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday signed a bill that eliminates the Miami-Dade County Expressway Authority and replaces it with the newly created Greater Miami Expressway Agency.
Lawyers for the state are asking a federal judge to throw out a lawsuit challenging how Florida elections officials handle mismatched signatures on mail-in and provisional ballots.
Gov. Ron DeSantis' net worth dropped nearly 9 percent in 2018 as he left Congress and made a successful run for governor.
Experts looking into toxic algae outbreaks that have exploded in state waterways want to know if anyone has a proven, innovative cleanup strategy that can be used.
Florida will soon see the first change in 35 years to the legal threshold for felony theft after Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a criminal-justice package into law on Friday.
