Tag: FLORIDA LEGISLATURE

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Rick Scott is heading off to Israel on a week-long trade mission.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The Florida Legislature recently changed state law to allow any resident to challenge their school district’s textbooks and curricula and get a hearing before an outside mediator.

TALLLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Well-known attorney John Morgan says he’s not running for Florida governor.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The Florida Democrat Party chairman resigned Friday after a report of anonymous allegations of sexually inappropriate behavior, a decision he made after four of his party’s candidates for governor said he should step down.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A leading Democratic legislator in Florida abruptly resigned Friday, just hours after a news outlet reported that he had an extramarital affair with a local government lobbyist earlier this year.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Despite having spent years investigating drug crimes and slayings in Philadelphia, a Florida sheriff told a state Senate committee on Tuesday that he hasn’t seen anything like the current opioid epidemic in Florida.

MIAMI (AP) -- A man who secretly recorded a meeting with a Florida police chief is celebrating victory in a federal case with free-speech and privacy implications.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida legislators passed 249 bills this year during their regular 60-day session and the four-day special session. Nearly half (121...

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (AP) -- Florida's three announced Democratic gubernatorial candidates agreed on most issues at a forum Saturday, from education to the economy to faith, but got their loudest cheers when they called for ending a 20-year string of Republican governors in 2018.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s decision to reverse some Obama-era Cuba policies landed with a thud among many congressional Republicans who say the...