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A new report issued by the Constitution Project on Wednesday recommends that states like Florida scrap the three-drug lethal injection cocktail that resulted in a botched execution in Oklahoma last week and switch to a single drug instead.
Florida will face Kansas and national runner-up Kentucky will face Texas in the 2nd annual SEC-Big 12 Challenge.
Just six months shy of elections, former governor Charlie Crist was in Miami Monday and made a stop at Versailles on Calle Ocho.
According to a new poll, nearly 9 out of 10 Floridians support the medical use of marijuana.
South Florida is looking to gain fame for more than its beaches, cruise ships and cafecitos.
Robby Ginepri earned a wild card into the French Open's main draw from the U.S. Tennis Association.
Lawmakers passed an election-year budget of $77.1 billion --- the largest state spending plan in history --- before closing out the 2014 legislative session and heading home to campaign.
In the waning hours of the 2014 session Friday, Florida lawmakers signed off on bill that could allow a 78-year-old man to finally receive payment for the 21 years he wrongly served in prison after his seven children died of poisoning.
A $105 million tax cut "patchwork of awesomeness," filled with sales-tax holidays and discounts on pet foods, college meals and cement mixers, is headed to the governor.
Sure to please many school-supply-buyers, the Florida Legislature approved a three-day tax holiday in August.
From child welfare to cleaning up water pollution, Florida legislators planned to end this year's session by approving a record state budget.
Immediately after the Senate passed HB 755 late Friday afternoon, Senate Rules Chairman John Thrasher left the chamber, dashed up the stairs and handed a sheet of paper to a small cluster of people outside the public gallery.
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A new door could open for sports entities looking to build a stadium or upgrade current facilities in Florida.
The parasailing industry in Florida could be subject to safety guidelines under a bill passed by the Florida Legislature Thursday.
The Florida Senate passed a bill Thursday allowing students who are living in the country illegally to qualify for in-state college tuition rates.
Back-to-school shoppers will be getting three days of tax free shopping in August.
The Senate accepted a House proposal Thursday that would require Major League Baseball to change how Cuban players are treated if baseball wants to share in state money for stadium work.
A new bill, on its way to Governor Scott, would make school districts give parents the chance to object to textbooks used in schools.
After a sometimes-emotional debate, a divided Florida House on Wednesday gave final approval to a proposal that could lead to 75 mph speed limits on some highways.
Opponents of a measure that would allow some undocumented students to pay in-state tuition rates ripped into the bill on Wednesday as the legislation was poised for passage the Senate.
Florida's GOP-dominated House approved a proposed constitutional amendment Wednesday that could give the winner of November's gubernatorial election the power to reshape the state Supreme Court.
Florida pediatricians say an expected legislative move heightens worries about what will happen to young special-needs patients as the state privatizes the Children's Medical Services program over the next three months.
Voters will get the chance to see Rick Scott face off in a televised debate against his Democratic challenger, presumably Charlie Crist and it'll air statewide on CBS4.
