Tag: Florida

In Gainesville, Florida, workers hired by the Daughters of the Confederacy chipped away at a Confederate soldier’s statue, loaded it quietly on a truck and drove away with little fanfare.

MIAMI (AP) — The number of active hate groups in Florida ranks second among other states in the nation.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida’s Department of Health has licensed two additional medical marijuana treatment centers.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — More and more Florida school districts are joining a looming legal fight over a new law that steers money to privately run charter schools.

Critics pounced after the Senate released its long-awaited bill to dismantle President Barack Obama's health care law on Thursday, saying its proposed cuts to Medicaid could be disastrous for the roughly 3.6 million Florida residents who rely on the program. Beginning in 2020, it would limit the federal funds Florida and other states get for Medicaid, a program whose expansion was a key part of the Affordable Care Act. Medicaid currently provides all the money needed to cover eligible recipients and procedures for millions of newly insured people.

A tropical storm warning is up for part of Florida as a low pressure system in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico gets...

Florida Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater is leaving his job at the end of the month. Atwater on Monday turned in his formal resignation letter to Gov. Rick Scott. Atwater announced back in February that he planned to step down from his elected post to take a position at Florida Atlantic University.

Governor Scott has signed a bill into law that aims to get locator beacons into every boat, no matter how small, in the wake of the disappearance of two teens off the east Florida coast two years ago.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- U.S. military officials say an unmanned spacecraft orbiting Earth since May 2015 has landed in Florida. The Air Force posted...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- Florida Gov. Rick Scott is scheduled to leave Sunday for Argentina for a trade mission organized by the state's embattled...