A new poll shows Marco Rubio cutting substantially into Gov. Charlie Crist's lead in the Republican primary for the U.S. Senate. ...more

October 21, 2009

Florida students taking the ACT college entrance exam performed slightly worse than they did last year, and the state continues to rank among the lowest nationwide. ...more

August 20, 2009

72 Percent of Americans who support a government- administered health plan 85 Percent of Americans who say the health care system needs fundamental changes ...more

June 21, 2009

Americans have a more favorable first impression of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor than they did for any of President George W. Bush's choices for the high court, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll. ...more

June 3, 2009

72 The percentage of Hillsborough County fourth-graders who passed FCAT reading, up from 67 percent last year ...more

May 29, 2009

A recently released Orbitz.com-Ipsos poll found 67 percent of respondents favored ending the U.S. ban on most travel to Cuba compared with 23 percent who oppose lifting restrictions. ...more

May 15, 2009

Florida's unemployment rate eked up one-tenth of a percent in March to 9.7 percent, the highest level since 1976 and up 4.3 percentage points since the same time last year, state officials said. ...more

April 18, 2009

Florida's unemployment rate eked up one tenth of a percent in March to 9.7 percent, the highest level since 1976, state officials said, and up 4.3 percentage points since the same time last year. ...more

April 17, 2009

Unemployment rates moved higher in all of the nation's largest metropolitan areas in February with Indiana's Elkhart-Goshen and North Carolina's Hickory-Lenoir-Morgantown registering the biggest annual increases. ...more

April 1, 2009

The economy shrank at a 6.3 percent pace at the end of 2008, the worst showing in a quarter-century, and probably isn't doing much better now. ...more

March 26, 2009