A federal judge has issued a permanent injunction against Florida Gov. Rick Scott's order to test most state employees for drug use, according to a ruling filed Thursday.
Florida authorities have picked 17 people to tackle a heated question brought on by the killing of unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin: whether the state's "stand your ground law" should be changed.
"Reliable Sources" examines the racial and ideological polarization surrounding Trayvon Martin's case.
Trayvon Martin's parents will ask the U.S. Justice Department to review a local Florida prosecutor's interactions with police investigating the teen's shooting death, the family's lawyer said.
The prosecutor investigating the death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin said her team is traveling to Sanford, Florida, with a "blank slate."
Authorities arrested Saturday a suspect who allegedly shot a female officer, stabbed a judge and fled a Washington state courthouse, an official said.
Officers from multiple agencies in western Washington state were looking for a suspect who fled a courthouse Friday after allegedly shooting a female officer and stabbing a judge who came to her assistance, officials said.
Walter Kimbrough, President of Philander Smith College, discusses the culture of hazing and how to stop it.
15 year old Lidiane Carmo lost her entire family in a deadly Florida crash. But she may face another threat: deportation.
In November 2010, I watched "HBO's Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel" and saw a piece on the hazing antics at several historically black colleges and fraternities. I took to Twitter to share my thoughts on the issue.
Florida A&M University President James Ammons will stay in office during a hazing investigation, the school's board decided Monday.
The death of Robert Champion Jr., the 26-year-old Florida A&M University student and drum major who died last month after a suspected hazing incident, has been ruled a homicide, according to a medical examiner.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott met late Thursday with a group of several hundred Florida A&M students upset over his recommendation that trustees suspend the school's president in the wake of alleged hazing and "financial irregularities."
Florida Gov. Rick Scott "has strongly recommended" that the trustees of Florida A&M University suspend, "effective immediately," the school's president in the wake of alleged hazing and "financial irregularities," the governor's office announced Thursday.
An attorney for the family of a Florida A&M University drum major who died suddenly last month accused the school of "turning a blind eye" to reports of hazing.
The family of Robert Champion, a Florida university drum major who died on November 20, will hold a news conference Monday where they will announce their decision to file a lawsuit against the school.
Florida's governor sent a message to the aerospace industry Tuesday: the state supports Kennedy Space Center's future.
A controversial law requiring adults applying for welfare assistance to undergo drug screening has gone into effect in Florida.
A pair of firefighters died in north Florida on Monday while battling the Blue Ribbon wildfire in Hamilton County, the Florida Division of Forestry said.
Florida teachers have filed a lawsuit seeking to stop the state from requiring them to contribute 3% of their pay towards their pensions.
As many as 30 to 40 new wildfires have been breaking out daily in Florida amid persistent dry conditions, fire officials said Wednesday.
Two fires have merged, coming dangerously close to protected areas in Florida's Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge.
Gov. Rick Scott defends recent legislation that requires adults applying for welfare assistance to take a drug test.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott on Sunday defended recent legislation that requires adults applying for welfare assistance to undergo drug screenings, saying the law provides "personal accountability."
Saying it is "unfair for Florida taxpayers to subsidize drug addiction," Gov. Rick Scott on Tuesday signed legislation requiring adults applying for welfare assistance to undergo drug screening.
Florida outlaws bath salts, a synthetic drug that has been compared to cocaine and methamphetamines. WJHG reports.
Call it the Battle of the Ricks.
Gov. Rick Scott turns down federal funding for a high speed rail project saying "the risks outweigh the benefits."
Cutting taxes may sound good, but it sure isn't easy to do.
Tourism in Florida is getting a $30 mililon boost from BP, state officials said Monday.
Enough is enough, a Florida judge said Wednesday, barring a Michigan inmate with no standing from filing any more motions in the Casey Anthony murder case.
The 20 jurors to be selected in the Orlando, Florida, murder trial of Casey Anthony will cost the court system an estimated $361,000, according to court administrators.
The defense wants possible evidence of decomposition thrown out in the Casey Anthony murder case.
Politics is serious business -- but not all the time.
Florida desperately needs more foreclosures ... or its court system does, at least.
Days after Florida rejected $2.4 billion in federal money for a high-speed rail system, the money is now being offered up to other states in a "merit-driven" competitive bidding process.
Taking an unusual tack to dealing with a $3.6 billion budget deficit, Florida Gov. Rick Scott unveiled a budget Monday that cuts $4 billion in property and corporate income taxes.
Republican Rick Scott has won Florida's governorship after Democratic rival Alex Sink conceded the tight race Wednesday morning.
Republican Rick Scott wins Florida's governorship after Democratic rival Alex Sink concedes the tight race Wednesday.
Democrat Alex Sink is locked in a nationally-watched, neck-and-neck contest to become Florida's next governor. But long before she entered the political arena, she got a vote of confidence for a very different career from a Wall Street legend.
A campaign aide to Florida gubernatorial candidate Alex Sink has been removed after the Democratic nominee was sent a text message during a televised debate -- in violation of the rules that the candidates agreed to.
Alex Sink is caught on camera reading a mobile device during the CNN Florida governor's debate.
Democrat Alex Sink will debate Republican Rick Scott on Monday, setting up a nationally televised showdown between the two Florida governor hopefuls on CNN.
There was supposed to be a $50 million elephant in the room when Rick Scott addressed an audience of Florida Republican elites on Friday as the party's gubernatorial nominee.
Republican Gov. candidate Rick Scott talks about Tuesday night's victory in Florida with CNN's John King.
Republican primary voters yesterday sent shock waves of earthquake proportions from Florida to Alaska.
Rick Scott has the money and the drive, and he can't be challenged when he calls himself an outsider in a year when anti-establishment sentiment is high.
After a night rife with primaries in the far-flung four corners of the United States, plus one in the nation's breadbasket, one race in the far Northwest is still up for grabs.
Republican Marco Rubio reacts to last night's election.
Sen. John McCain told supporters he will "take nothing for granted" after defeating former Rep. J.D. Hayworth in a bitterly fought Republican primary for U.S. Senate in Arizona Tuesday.
By wading into the issue of an Islamic center and mosque near ground zero, President Barack Obama provided Republicans with an emotion-ridden attack vehicle while diverting attention from campaign themes of fellow Democrats.
I'm inside a van barreling down a North Florida highway, just shy of the Georgia border, sitting next to (1) the Gordon Gekko of the hospital business; (2) the Leona Helmsley of medicine; or (3) Public Enemy No. 1 of health-care reform.
If ever a company needed a New Year's resolution, it is Columbia/HCA. In 1997 the health-care behemoth ousted the CEO who built the company, became the target of the largest federal investigation e...
Darla Moore fell hard for Richard Rainwater the moment he told her, "I view you like an equity investment."
The people in charge of these companies are brash, devil-take-the-hindmost characters, America's true champions. Such restless visionaries, as F. Scott Fitzgerald observed in The Great Gatsby, neve...
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