FEATURED STORIES
By Jamie Page
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Cap back after robot nudge stalls oil collection
Palm Beach Post
A cap was back in place on BP's broken oil well after a deep-sea blunder forced crews to temporarily remove what has been the most effective method so far for containing some of the massive Gulf of Mexico spill.
By Luke Johnson
Even as tar balls wash up on Florida Panhandle shores from the April 20 oil spill, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio stands consistently behind offshore drilling.
By Gary Fineout
A battle over proposed redistricting amendments is turning into an extraordinary legal fight between members of Congress, the Republican-controlled Florida Legislature, Gov. Charlie Crist and even a former governor.
FLORIDA POLITICS
By Alex Leary
The husband of Sen. George LeMieux's chief of staff has been hired to help BP navigate its public relations nightmare.
POLITICAL RACES
By Steve Bousquet
By bolting from the Republican Party, Gov. Charlie Crist has one place left to raise big money in his race for the U.S. Senate: Democrats.
By Brandon Larrabee
One is a long-time Republican and the other is the son of a Democratic governor.
By Matt Coleman
A consensus is hard to come by in politics. But four of Florida's leading gubernatorial candidates have announced their support for a constitutional amendment referendum on the November ballot to alter Florida's 2002 class size amendment.
By Aaron Hale
Two major Republican governor candidates are trading barbs about who is playing political games and ducking a public debate.
BALLOT INITIATIVES
By Gary Fineout
A campaign effort has been launched to promote Amendment 9, the measure pushed by the GOP-controlled Legislature to block federal health care reform.
By Lesley Blackner
In the June 13 story A different world for developer Terry Stiles, Stiles says ``it was easy'' to pave over Broward County.
ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY
Staff Report
The Obama administration may let certain deepwater drilling operations in the Gulf of Mexico resume during a six-month halt, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Wednesday.
By Bruce Ritchie
Darryl Willis, a new media new face for BP in its response to the ongoing Gulf oil spill, says he doesn't consider himself a star -- or a potential new target of the company's critics.
By Willie Howard
Panhandle restaurateur Dave Rauschkolb never envisioned the Deepwater Horizon oil spill last fall when he began organizing Hands Across the Sand, a statewide gathering on beaches held Feb. 13 to protest the possibility of oil drilling near Florida's coastline.
Staff Report
As oil continues to gush into the Gulf of Mexico after the explosion on BP's Deepwater Horizon rig, cleanup crews and animal welfare experts are working tirelessly to prevent massive ecological damage on the coast.
By Bruce Ritchie
Florida Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Michael Sole is asking NOAA to scale back the federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico that are closed to fishing.
By Gina Jordan
Beware of fraudsters looking to cash in on the oil spill. As Gina Jordan reports, don't be surprised if you suddenly find a hot scoop in your inbox.
Editorial
It didn't take Palm Beach County long to back away from real regulation of commercial rock mining in the Everglades Agricultural Area.
LGBT
By Keith Lovely Jr.
Cynthia Monson who was in an on again, off again relationship with Patricia Thomas, adopted two children early on in their relationship.
By Michael Van Sickler
Since its debut in 2003, the St. Pete Pride celebration has become one of the city's biggest events, outdrawing opening day at Tropicana Field and the Martin Luther King Jr. parade.
Editorial
When it comes to gay rights in America, Florida ranks as one of the most discriminatory of states.
EDUCATION
By Leslie Postal
Florida and 25 other states today applied for a federal grant that would let them develop new, common tests to judge students' math and language arts skills.
By Jeffrey S. Solochek
Wiregrass Ranch High School has 15 teaching jobs to fill, but it hasn't even advertised a third of them yet.
JOBS, BUDGET, AND ECONOMY
By Bart Jansen
Florida and four other states will receive $1.5 billion to prevent housing foreclosures, administration officials announced Wednesday.
By Jeff Harrington
Five years ago, local contractor Jim Kuhnsman built a hurricane-resistant fortress in St. Petersburg for his family.
The Progress Report
This week, the conference committee reconciling the House and Senate's respective versions of financial regulatory reform is dealing with some of the most contentious aspects of the effort to rein in Wall Street and build a fairer financial system.
HEALTH AND SENIORS
By Carol Gentry
The low annual payout limits on skimpy health plans, including the state's own "Cover Florida" program, are supposed to go away in September under new federal rules released Tuesday afternoon.
By Lottie Watts
For the first time, Florida has more than 1 million Medicare beneficiaries enrolled in managed-care plans, according to data released Tuesday by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
By Brett Ader
Following a national trend that has seen close to 400 campuses introduce bans on smoking, the University of Florida will become the first public college in the state to impose a policy forbidding smoking and the use of all tobacco-related products on campus.
CIVIL RIGHTS, PEACE AND SOCIAL ISSUES
By Alfonso Chardy
Eight Republican senators sent a letter to President Barack Obama this week asking for confirmation that the White House is planning to defer deportations or grant parole to millions of undocumented immigrants, pending congressional debate on immigration reform.
By Robert S. Weiner and Yusuf M. Hassan
The late Congressman Claude Pepper, a Miami Democrat who chaired the House Aging Committee, said: "Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism."
JUSTICE AND THE COURTS
By Gary Fineout
Florida is joining with other states that have launched a probe into Google Inc.'s gathering of personal data from unsecured wireless networks.
By Bill Cotterell
An attorney who grew up in the Tallahassee area is the new top federal prosecutor for North Florida.
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