Poll: Crist Leads Scott By Just 2 Points
The race for Florida governor is still months away, but in a hypothetical race between Charlie Crist and Rick Scott, the former governor may pull out a very narrow victory.
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The race for Florida governor is still months away, but in a hypothetical race between Charlie Crist and Rick Scott, the former governor may pull out a very narrow victory.
An new execution date has been set for the South Florida drug trafficker convicted of killing a state trooper with a pipe bomb.
Backers of a medical marijuana constitutional amendment in Florida are celebrating a victory of sorts after it announced they have collected enough signatures to make the 2014 ballot.
Florida may be the next state to jump on the medical marijuana bandwagon. Florida's Republican-led Legislature has agreed to hear a bill, sponsored by state Representative Katie Edwards from Plantation, to allow medical distribution of the specialty strain, known as Charlotte's Web.
The Attorney General Pam Bondi's office is arguing that a proposed constitutional amendment allowing marijuana for medical reasons would go beyond what voters would be led to believe.
While public opinion continues to move towards the legalization of marijuana, Florida's legislative leaders have come out against a push to allow the use of pot for medical reasons.
The Florida Supreme Court will hear arguments Dec. 5 about whether a proposed constitutional amendment to legalize medical marijuana should go before voters in 2014.
lorida's Attorney General is drawing heat from Democrats after a group backing her re-election accepted a $25,000 donation from a Donald Trump charity group.
Little more than a year before the 2014 elections, the Republican Party of Florida and its leaders are showing their financial muscle.
After 23 years on Florida's death row, Marshall Lee Gore, a former escort service owner who killed two women, was executed by lethal injection Tuesday evening.
Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi has announced a new state initiative in an effort to end human trafficking.
In the wake of criticism from Republicans including Florida Gov. Rick Scott, the Obama administration is beefing up security measures for data submitted to "navigators" by people seeking insurance under the federal health overhaul.
How much power does money have over political offices? Florida has delayed the execution of a former escort service owner due to a campaign fundraiser.
Florida's Attorney General has decided to join 21 other states that support the overturn of a federal gun law—one that prohibits the sale of handguns to people aged 18 through 20.
A national report looking at the massive $25 billion settlement that grew out of the massive foreclosure fraud problems over the last few years found that over 120,000 Floridians have received aid thanks to the program.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott and the Florida Cabinet voted Tuesday to allow university researchers to exhume human remains from unmarked graves at a defunct Florida Panhandle reform school.
As a result of a $45 million multi-state settlement with footwear maker Skechers USA Inc., more than 35,000 Floridians will be getting checks in the mail.
There's an old saying that it's good to be the king. It turns out it's also good to be a member of the Florida Cabinet, at least fiscally speaking.
Almost three months after she resigned in the wake of a gambling probe into an organization that had been one of her business clients, there is still no replacement for former Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll.
Attorney General Pam Bondi, along with other attorneys general, is not laughing at a popular retailer's housewares line made to look like prescription bottles.
On this day three years ago, BP'S Deepwater Horizon rig exploded and killed 11 crewmen, ignited a massive fireball and left behind a gushing open well that ended in the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history.
So-called designer drugs are one step closer to being banned.
Large companies have succession plans, and so does the government: if the president is unable to serve, the vice president takes over.
The state will get an $8.6 million share of a national settlement with a loan processing company over improper mortgage foreclosure practices, included "robo-signing".
