The Florida Supreme Court tossed out a challenge to Florida’s gaming compact on Thursday, preserving legalized sports betting in the state for now....
Gov. Ron DeSantis has yet to sign a bill that would allow chaplains to offer counseling in public schools, but one colorful religious figure says he is already eager to volunteer....
The state Ethics Commission on Wednesday dismissed a complaint alleging that Miami Mayor Francis Suarez improperly received tickets to last year’s Formula 1 race in Miami from billionaire Ken Griffin, concluding the mayor repaid the cost of the VIP passes to the Sunday race for him and his wife....
Gov. Ron DeSantis’ top aides stopped the release of public records about his taxpayer-funded plane travel and retaliated against state police employees who disagreed with the decision, according to two former officials in the Florida Department of Law Enforcement....
Florida Republican-sponsored legislation that was originally intended to make it easier to sue mainstream news outlets for defamation has sparked an intense backlash by conservatives, who fear it will be turned against them....
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Though the House has passed their bill in a 80-35 vote, there are still key differences with the Senate’s legislation. Senators have emphasized that their bill is more narrow than the House’s proposal, putting some distance between them and the other chamber....
The coalition of citizens and community groups accusing the city of racial gerrymandering want the judge to order special elections in each of the city’s five commission districts as early as November. Such an outcome — though far from a certainty — would cut short the terms of multiple sitting commissioners and force them...
A U.S. man who founded an orphanage in Haiti was charged Monday with traveling from Miami to the Caribbean country to have sex with underage children after spending over a decade dodging accusations that he abused minors in his care....
A Russian-American businessman based in Miami is suspected of making nearly $23 million from alleged insider trading involving former President Donald Trump’s media company, according to federal court records....
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Sarasota police are investigating whether Florida Republican Party Chairman Christian Ziegler illegally videotaped a sexual encounter with the woman who has accused him of raping her last fall, according to a search warrant affidavit.
Venezuelans going to the polls Sunday will be asked to answer an unusually provocative question: Should their government be given a blank check to invade neighboring Guyana, and wrest away three-quarters of its oil-rich territory?...
A former Virginia police officer was on-duty when he followed a 17-year-old high school student home and raped her in his patrol car in 2019, according to officials who’ve announced he’s been sentenced to nearly two decades in federal prison....
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Sea level rise, driven by unchecked human greenhouse gas emissions, has gradually made king tides higher, meaning that South Florida’s 80-something-year-old canal system fails more often. The drainage system, run by the South Florida Water Management District, was originally designed for a far smaller population than South...
A Republican activist who has been a reliable donor to Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis — despite a racist tweet that put him on the outs with DeSantis’ predecessor, Rick Scott — shot a woman and then himself in the parking lot of a Palm Beach County restaurant, according to sheriff’s deputies....
