Max Conradt was used to defensive linemen hurtling their 300-pound frames at him week after week. He was a high school quarterback, the team leader who took his licks and got back up.
Flights transporting critically injured Haitians to the United States are set to resume Monday morning, according to a spokeswoman for a University of Miami team of volunteers in Port-au-Prince.
Flights transporting critically injured Haitians into the United States will resume within a few hours, the White House announced Sunday afternoon.
Flights transporting critically injured Haitians into the United States have temporarily been suspended because of logistical issues, including a lack of space, a White House spokesman said Saturday in response to reports of a dispute over who would pay for patients' care.
With Tea Party activists brewing their own strain of conservativism, Republicans are waging a fierce battle amongst themselves over what it means to be a member of the Grand Old Party.
Democrats and Republicans woke up this week with a fresh perspective on the midterm elections.
Another band of frigid weather will blanket the eastern two-thirds of the nation Wednesday, battering states already dealing with record-low temperatures that have been blamed for at least five deaths.
As primary battles go, this one's pretty ugly.
Sen. Arlen Specter's decision to leave the Republican Party in April handed President Obama a key vote in the Senate, and Specter was rewarded by quickly being endorsed by the president and Democratic leaders in his bid for re-election next year.
The Republican fratricide in the November 3 special election in upstate New York may prove just an opening round of an even more spectacular bloodbath in Florida in 2010.
Max Conradt was used to defensive linemen hurtling their 300-pound frames at him week after week. He was a high school quarterback, the team leader who took his licks and got back up.
Flights transporting critically injured Haitians to the United States are set to resume Monday morning, according to a spokeswoman for a University of Miami team of volunteers in Port-au-Prince.
Flights transporting critically injured Haitians into the United States will resume within a few hours, the White House announced Sunday afternoon.
Flights transporting critically injured Haitians into the United States have temporarily been suspended because of logistical issues, including a lack of space, a White House spokesman said Saturday in response to reports of a dispute over who would pay for patients' care.
With Tea Party activists brewing their own strain of conservativism, Republicans are waging a fierce battle amongst themselves over what it means to be a member of the Grand Old Party.
Democrats and Republicans woke up this week with a fresh perspective on the midterm elections.
Another band of frigid weather will blanket the eastern two-thirds of the nation Wednesday, battering states already dealing with record-low temperatures that have been blamed for at least five deaths.
As primary battles go, this one's pretty ugly.
Sen. Arlen Specter's decision to leave the Republican Party in April handed President Obama a key vote in the Senate, and Specter was rewarded by quickly being endorsed by the president and Democratic leaders in his bid for re-election next year.
The Republican fratricide in the November 3 special election in upstate New York may prove just an opening round of an even more spectacular bloodbath in Florida in 2010.
Right now, the political intelligentsia is consumed with the outcome of a congressional district in upstate New York.
If Democrats suffer a loss in an upstate New York congressional race Tuesday, it could well spark an uneasy celebration among Republican leaders.
Sen. Mel Martinez, a Florida Republican, announced Friday that he will resign his seat as soon as a replacement can be named by the governor.
How mad would you be if you got into a fender bender and a few weeks later got a bill for hundreds of dollars to cover police and emergency responders' costs?
Score a big one for John Cornyn.
Florida Gov. Charlie Crist announced Tuesday he would not run for re-election next year and instead will seek the seat being vacated by retiring GOP Sen. Mel Martinez.
Florida Gov. Charlie Crist will announce Tuesday he will forgo another bid for governor and instead run for the Senate, two Republican sources tell CNN.
President Obama plans to nominate Craig Fugate, director of the Florida Division of Emergency Management, as the next administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the White House said Wednesday.
Leaning against his cane, Bryant Middleton shuffled toward the makeshift cemetery. Tears welled in his eyes as he leaned down to touch one of the crosses.
Disturbing memories came rushing back when four men in their 60s, who call themselves the "White House Boys," started sharing stories over the Internet about their experiences at the Florida School for Boys.
Four men, now in their 60s, met over the Internet, shared stories about the darkest days of their pasts and spurred an investigation into 32 graves at a reform school.
The Sunshine State has come a long way since the butterfly ballots and hanging chads of the 2000 recount. But there are still potential pitfalls for what promises to be a very tight race.
As Election Day approaches, Brad Merriman does a lot of praying.
The Republican nominee has Charlie Crist and a GOP-controlled legislature behind him, but his campaign's negative tone isn't playing well in a state tired of bitter partisanship
A gigantic land deal for a territory larger than the city of Chicago, intended to help restore the dying Everglades, has been delayed as both sides work out details of the proposal for the state to buy some 300 square miles from U.S. Sugar Corp
Ike strengthened to an "extremely dangerous" Category 4 storm Saturday near the Turks and Caicos Islands with winds near 135 mph, said the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Florida.
Visitors to the Florida Keys were told to pack up and leave Saturday because of the threat from Hurricane Ike, swirling in the Caribbean.
The next big hurricane could leave the state not merely damaged but in financial ruin
Tropical Storm Hanna, the first of three tropical storms lined up across the Atlantic, was expected to make landfall somewhere from Florida to North Carolina before Friday evening, forecasters said.
Families clutched mattresses, chairs and other belongings and slogged through waist-high floodwaters Tuesday as Tropical Storm Hanna killed at least 13 people in northern Haiti
President Bush, Vice President Cheney and prominent governors decided on Sunday to skip the Republican National Convention
Tropical Storm Fay began wrapping up its disastrous slog across Florida on Saturday by making a record fourth landfall on the Panhandle's coast
Tropical Storm Fay, stalled near Cape Canaveral, Florida, soaked portions of east-central Florida late Wednesday, and the National Hurricane Center said it could dump 30 inches of rain in some areas of the state.
John McCain, meanwhile, will name his v.p. choice on his Aug. 29 birthday
At least seven possible tornadoes were reported Tuesday in eastern Florida as Tropical Storm Fay battered parts of the state with high winds and heavy rain, the National Hurricane Center said.
Tropical Storm Fay had weakened slightly but was reorganizing as it approached eastern Cuba moving westward from Haiti, the National Hurricane Center said Saturday.
If conventional wisdom is correct and Barack Obama's vice presidential selection is days away, should John McCain pounce with his own veep announcement?
The state gears up for yet another polling system on Election Day. Will the optical-scan ballot help Florida finally get it right?
The state of Florida has agreed to buy nearly 200,000 acres of land from a major sugar producer in a $1.7 billion deal to help restore the Everglades, Gov. Charlie Crist announced Tuesday.
At a press conference in the Everglades, Florida governor Charlie Crist announces a $1.75 billion deal to buy the U.S. Sugar Corp.
Coming out of Super Tuesday, McCain was the biggest winner with most state victories, including big states like New York and California, and well on the way to getting the 1,191 delegates needed to clinch the Republican nomination.
The tropical storm season starts Sunday, and climatologists are again predicting a bad one. But does anyone trust them?
Authorities said they are confident the probation violator with a lengthy criminal record they arrested will be charged in connection with wildfires that destroyed 22 homes.
Most wildfires across Florida were contained Tuesday, including a blaze that charred more than 3,500 acres and caused $9.6 million in damage in the city of Palm Bay.
Relentless wildfires burned Tuesday morning across Florida's Atlantic coast, taxing firefighters and overwhelming residents trying to save their homes with garden hoses
A wildfire sapped a Florida town's resources Monday as it damaged or destroyed at least 50 homes, according to city officials who are investigating the blaze as a possible arson.
Will the recount state become the re-primary state? Will voters in Michigan have their say in picking a Democratic candidate for president?
Florida and Michigan could go from having no say in the Democratic nominating process to deciding the nominee if their states' political leaders succeed in getting their delegates seated.
GOP front-runner Sen. John McCain picked up an endorsement Monday from former New York Gov. George Pataki, providing a last-minute boost before Super Tuesday.
With half the Florida vote counted, the Arizona Senator is maintaining a solid lead in the winner-take-all GOP primary
The governor defends the state's controversial decision to move up its primary - and relishes all the attention
Federal biologists said Friday they had signed off on a plan aimed at providing relief to the drought-parched Southeast, under which more water will be retained in Georgia instead of being released into Florida.
A January referendum seeks to reduce property taxes for a middle class getting squeezed. But reformers want still more
Less than a decade after embracing new election technology, Florida is leading the country back to the paper trail
Name: Drew Weatherford School: Florida State Year: Junior (redshirt) Age: 22 Major: Finance and Real Estate Internship: Working in Florida Governor Charlie Crist's Office of Legislative Affairs (unpaid) Hours: 8-11:30 a.m. until practice starts in August
Florida Governor Charlie Crist stages a summit to prove that Republicans are environmentalists too
Florida, the fourth most-populous U.S. state, is expected to impose strict new air-pollution standards that aim to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by 80 percent of 1990 levels by 2050, according to draft regulations released Wednesday.
A small plane crashed into two homes Tuesday in Sanford, Florida, near Orlando, killing five people -- the pilot, his passenger, and an adult and two children inside the houses.
The Florida judge noted for his unorthodox oversight of the Anna Nicole Smith case says he is retiring at the end of July.
Like California a generation ago, the Sunshine State is moving toward providing relief for overburdened homeowners
Under sunny skies, members of the Church of God in Lady Lake, Florida, held their morning worship service Sunday amid the remnants of their destroyed sanctuary, leveled by a pre-dawn tornado on Friday.
Stunned residents, working in the rain Saturday, poked through debris for pieces of their lives deposited the day before by central Florida storms and a tornado whose winds reached 160-165 mph.
At least 19 people were killed in one county Friday as catastrophic storms packing tornadoes raked across central Florida.
The Federal Communications Commission has asked Time Warner and Comcast for an unusual amount of information in its review of their proposed $17.6 billion purchase of the assets of bankrupt cable operator Adelphia Communications, according to a published report Thursday.
Now your car may also be at risk of identity theft.
Florida Attorney General Charlie Crist filed lawsuits Tuesday against two hotels he said engaged in price gouging and other unfair practices as people fled Hurricane Charley.
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