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By Travis Griggs
Related AP story: BP exec says cap is collecting some oil in Gulf
As BP struggled to put a lid on the Gulf oil gusher Thursday night, the growing slick of oil hovered just a few miles off Navarre and Pensacola beaches.
By Michael Peltier
Florida's commercial fishermen caught a small break Thursday as they were allowed to join their Gulf state counterparts who qualify for federal assistance in the wake of the worst oil spill in U.S. history.
By Jeremy Wallace
Late entries into the two hottest races in the state are shaking up Florida politics.
By Michael Grunwald
It's only June, but Florida's three-way U.S. Senate contest is already shaping up as a race to remember.
By John Frank and Marc Caputo
Gov. Charlie Crist, who placed and protected Jim Greer at the helm of the Florida GOP, on Thursday denied knowing anything about a secret contract at the center of the six-count criminal fraud indictment against the former Republican leader.
BEST OF THE BLOGS
By Buck Banks
It's a tale of greed, hubris, dumb shrewdness and more greed and hubris for good measure.
By Ray Seaman
You can count me as someone who believes BP is first and foremost responsible for the tragedy taking place in the Gulf right now.
By Inkberries
When Gov. Charlie Crist recently spoke of having a special session to put an oil drilling ban on the November ballot, one of the legislators who pushed so hard to lift the ban on drilling in the first place, Republican Dean Cannon said he didn't think that was necessary.
FLORIDA POLITICS
By Marc Caputo and Lee Logan
Of all the times Gov. Charlie Crist has flip-flopped, few decisions stand out like his budget veto of nearly $10 million for Shands Hospital in Gainesville.
By George Bennett
Around the same time his friend and political patron Gov. Charlie Crist appeared on CNN Wednesday and defended President Obama's response to the gulf oil spill, Republican U.S. Sen. George LeMieux sat in a hotel lobby and ripped Obama's performance.
By Rene Stutzman
Former Florida GOP chairman Jim Greer was arrested Wednesday, but the statewide grand jury that charged him handed up its indictment two weeks earlier, according to court records.
Crist signs Fla. python ban, ephedrine tracking
Miami Herald
911 Operator Training Bill Signed Into Law
News Service of Florida
GOP account isn't closed: Credit-card scandal not a Crist-only problem
Palm Beach Post
Editorial
Miami Herald
POLITICAL RACES
By Greg Allen
One of the most closely watched elections this fall will be for the open Senate seat in Florida.
By Christine Armario
At a boutique hotel in Miami's upscale Coral Gables neighborhood, members of a Republican women's group smile and gush as Senate candidate Marco Rubio enters the room.
By Luke Johnson
Former Florida House Speaker and Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Marco Rubio released an ad tying his opponent, Gov. Charlie Crist, to former Florida Republican Party Chairman Jim Greer, who was arrested yesterday.
By John Lantigua
Lawton "Bud" Chiles is slipping on his size 9 1/2 walking shoes and will soon be strolling through Palm Beach County and the Treasure Coast, on his way -- he hopes -- to the governor's mansion.
By Carrie Wells
Gubernatorial candidate Rick Scott stopped in Little Havana Thursday at the popular Versailles restaurant to grab a café cubano and chat up the locals -- in English.
By Aaron Sharockman
Lt. Gov. Jeff Kottkamp said Thursday he has been virtually locked out of the governor's office since Charlie Crist announced in April that he was leaving the Republican Party.
BALLOT INITIATIVES
By R. Kenneth Bluh
Every 10 years, following the completion of the national census, state legislatures are required to reconfigure the boundaries of voting districts to conform to the increasing or decreasing number of residents in the state.
ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY
By Gina Presson
Charging that BP cheated on its safety plans and the U.S. Minerals Management Service let them, Earthjustice has filed suit against the agency for approving those plans.
By Christine Stapleton
A news release about tar balls, oil and a confirmed sighting of sheen in the lower Florida Keys on Thursday prompted officials at two popular dolphin encounter facilities to lay boom to protect the animals' habitats.
By Bruce Ritchie
Gov. Charlie Crist keeps saying that he wants to take up renewable energy legislation in a possible special session that would also deal with offshore oil drilling.
Editorial
An oil blowout and gusher of horrific proportions in the Gulf of Mexico, threatening Florida's fragile coastal environment and economy, was needed to reunite the state's congressional delegation against oil drilling off the state's coast.
LGBT
By Gary Fineout
The hiring of a now-disgraced psychologist to defend Florida's ban on gay adoption was done over the objections of the main attorney defending the case for the state, according to records made public Thursday.
EDUCATION
By Rebecca Catalanello
A rush of small hands reached into the cafeteria cooler.
JOBS, BUDGET, AND ECONOMY
By Steve Newborn
A conference was held Thursday here on the effects of the Gulf oil spill on local businesses.
By Jamie Page
Escambia County Property Appraiser Chris Jones and his counterpart in Santa Rosa County, Greg Brown, are seeking lower property taxes this year for coastal residents whose property values fall because of the oil spill.
HEALTH AND SENIORS
By Jim Saunders
As Gov. Charlie Crist gets ready to sign a bill to crack down further on Florida's pill-mill industry, state health officials say they expect to meet a Dec. 1 deadline for creating a database to track prescription drugs.
By Carol Gentry
Joel Rose, the physician who appointed himself to a state rule-setting panel on pain treatment, says he has no conflict of interest because the clinics he works in aren't really pain clinics.
By Anthony Man
With Republicans using the new federal healthcare law as a political weapon against Democrats, U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Weston, tried Thursday to reassure senior citizens.
CIVIL RIGHTS, PEACE AND SOCIAL ISSUES
By John A. Torres and Jim Waymer
State Sen. Mike Haridopolos confirmed his support of a tough immigration law in Florida, similar to that passed in Arizona.
Inmate's collapse leaves unanswered questions
St. Petersburg Times
JUSTICE AND THE COURTS
By Curt Anderson
Some of the flashier spoils of disbarred attorney Scott Rothstein's massive Ponzi scheme were auctioned Thursday for $5.8 million, with the money earmarked by the government to repay investors for some of their losses.
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