FEATURED STORIES
By Cristina Silva
Related: Poll: Would you support an Arizona-style immigration law in Florida?
Neil Lewis' cramped immigration law office reverberates from the ring of yet another telephone call.
By Bill Cotterell
Attorney General Bill McCollum said Tuesday he will be glad to give a defense deposition in the trial of Jim Greer, the ousted Florida Republican party chairman being prosecuted on six felony counts by McCollum's office.
By Ryan Tracy
BP and federal officials have conjured parts of their oil-spill response plan from scratch and changed them by the day, often failing to act with the speed and decisiveness an emergency demands.
By Marc Caputo
With the authority to dole out $20 billion to BP oil spill victims, Kenneth Feinberg has yet to provide exact details about who gets money and who doesn't.
FLORIDA POLITICS
By Gina Presson
Time is running out for Gov. Charlie Crist to call a special session of the Florida Legislature to consider a constitutional amendment banning oil drilling near Florida beaches.
By Catherine Whittenburg
Attorney General Bill McCollum said Tuesday that he's ready to face a defense attorney's questions about former Republican Party chairman Jim Greer.
By Josh Hafenbrack
It's finally - and officially -- a done deal: The federal government has signed off on Florida's blackjack gambling deal with the Seminole Indian tribe.
POLITICAL RACES
By David Hunt
With more than 1 million Floridians out of work, U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek said on the U.S. Senate campaign trail that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have taken a back seat to job creation.
By Margie Menzel
Lawton "Bud" Chiles III -- son of the late Democratic icon -- says he jumped into the governor's race because none of the other candidates was saying what he wanted to hear.
By Tristram Korten
When Lawton "Bud" Chiles, III, independent candidate for governor of Florida, filed his financial disclosure form last month, he listed his annual income as $143,000, his net worth as $1.3 million and an additional $1,763,546 in assets as of Dec. 31, 2009.
By Jeremy Wallace
A series of lawsuits that were once considered a threat to U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan's political career are quietly fading away, strengthening Buchanan's bid to win his third term this fall.
By Dave Berman
Undecided leads the crowded field in the Republican primary in the 24th Congressional District that includes northern Brevard County, a candidate's survey indicates.
By Anthony Man
They are political kingmakers, the behind-the-scenes consultants who put the polish on lackluster campaigns and dress candidates for success.
By J. Hunter Sizemore
Deployed military and overseas voters should be among the earliest voters in Florida primary election history starting Friday when absentee ballots are expected to be distributed.
Staff Report
With the August primary elections just around the corner, the Florida Department of State recently announced a new online voter information system.
ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY
By Bruce Ritchie
More oil-skimming vessels are on the way to the Gulf of Mexico while the BP oil spill is not expected to affect Florida this week, state officials said Tuesday.
By Jim Ash
Money from energy giant BP will begin flowing faster to local governments that are battling the effects of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson promised on Tuesday.
By Sen. Mike Haridopolos
Two weeks ago, I joined Citizens for Clean Energy in their announcement of a summit focused on bringing together experts from across the state and nation to discuss Florida's energy future.
By Bruce Ritchie
An informal coalition of renewable energy trade groups have developed a policy statement that they hope will push the Florida Legislature to take action on renewable energy.
EDUCATION
By Scott Travis
Related: Education in Florida too often ends with high school
JOBS, BUDGET, AND ECONOMY
By Annie Lowrey
Michele Walker lost her job working for a rental management company in the Pittsburgh area in the spring of 2008
By Jane Wooldridge
Fitch Ratings has confirmed what Floridians already suspected: Homeowners battling high unemployment and decreased home values have a new enemy in the Gulf oil spill.
By Jim Stratton
More than 147,000 Floridians will run out of unemployment benefits this week because the U.S. Senate, before leaving on a weeklong summer vacation, was unable to reach an agreement on how to keep payments flowing.
By Scott Powers
With $40 million in federal grants on the table, Space Coast entrepreneurs, companies and local government agencies had no shortage of proposals Tuesday of how to spend it to bring jobs to an already-struggling region that is bracing for deep NASA cuts.
Editorial
Facing big deficits in their public-employee pension systems, some cash-strapped local governments in Florida have come to a politically difficult but mathematically inescapable realization: They must pare back generous benefits for their retirees.
HEALTH AND SENIORS
By Fred Tasker
You're a South Florida resident on vacation in Boise or Bogota.
JUSTICE AND THE COURTS
The Associated Press
Fort Lauderdale's police chief has been cleared of wrongdoing after an investigation into his involvement in a car wreck linked to a disgraced attorney who ran a $1 billion Ponzi scheme.
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