The chairman of the nation's largest Muslim-American advocacy group has resigned, saying he's frustrated with the organization's direction. ...more

July 9, 2008

A Tampa Bay area foster boy is heading to Miami today for a possible liver transplant after another hospital removed him from an organ-donor waiting list in part because he doesn't have a permanent home. ...more

July 9, 2008

Despite a decade of education reform, tens of thousands of Florida's high school students don't read well enough to survive in the work force. ...more

July 1, 2008

After decades of denials, the Chinese have acknowledged burying an American prisoner of war in China, telling the United States that a teenage soldier captured in the Korean War died a week after he "became mentally ill," according to documents provided to The Associated Press. ...more

June 20, 2008

A federal appeals court has made it more difficult for employers to snoop legally on e-mail and text messages their workers send from company accounts. ...more

June 20, 2008

Viagra - the little blue pill celebrating its 10th birthday - continues to pack a potent punch, and not only in the bedroom. ...more

June 13, 2008

In 1972, Angel Rivera joined a chapter of the Disabled American Veterans in New York after the organization helped him get veterans' benefits. ...more

May 31, 2008

MIAMI - A farmworker advocacy group and Burger King have agreed on a deal to help improve wages and conditions for Florida tomato pickers. ...more

May 23, 2008

It huffs and it puffs and nearly blows your house down. That's the job of a new hurricane simulator at the University of Florida, a 25-ton contraption that belched 120 mph wind and rain during its first official test run Monday. Called a "Category 3 storm on wheels," the world's largest portable wind simulator delivered its expected fury by slamming a mockup section of house with high-pressure storm forces. ...more

May 20, 2008

GAINESVILLE - It huffs and it puffs and nearly blows your house down. That's the job of a new hurricane simulator at the University of Florida, a 25-ton contraption that belched 120 mph wind and rain during its first official test run today. Called a "Category 3 storm on wheels," the world's largest portable wind simulator delivered its expected fury by slamming a mockup section of house with high-pressure storm forces. ...more

May 19, 2008