Rescue workers are at the scene of a fatal train accident in Broward County. ...more

March 5, 2009

A lawmaker has filed a bill seeking to limit the state's authority to operate a Medicaid privatization experiment ...more

March 2, 2009

Philip Morris was ordered by a jury to pay $8 million in damages to the widow of a smoker who died of lung cancer in a case that could set a standard for some 8,000 similar Florida lawsuits. ...more

February 18, 2009

Dominick Ferello incited a mob of first-graders on Monday. It was Ferello's first day back on the job as principal of Explorer K-8 after a six-week break as he recovered from an illness, and Angela Esposito's class was clearly happy to see him. ...more

December 16, 2008

Back in late May and early June, Highlands County government officials, home builders and real estate agents talked about the possibility of an advertising campaign targeting coastal areas to promote home buying in Highlands County. ...more

December 2, 2008

Federal authorities have charged Kevin Negus Patterson with trying to deliver six kilograms of cocaine from Broward County to Lunch Markinley Philentrope in St. Petersburg. ...more

November 18, 2008

A Tarpon Springs police officer has been placed on paid administrative leave while authorities investigate whether he inappropriately touched a high school girl. ...more

November 13, 2008

Elections supervisors are adding new equipment, updating Web sites with wait times and handing out fans and water to people standing in long early voting lines. ...more

October 22, 2008

A sign hanging inside John McCain's campaign office in Pompano Beach juxtaposed a series of headshots: Fidel Castro, Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Karl Marx - and Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. ...more

October 17, 2008

Judges are urged to warn habitual traffic offenders that guilty or no contest pleas could lead to the loss of their licenses - even though such warnings aren't yet required, a divided Florida Supreme Court said Thursday. ...more

September 19, 2008