DENVER (AP) _ Joe Biden declared Wednesday that America doesn't need a good soldier in the White House, it needs the wise leadership of Barack Obama. As Biden conclude...
Former President Clinton, setting aside his own criticism and ambivalence, planned a full-throated endorsement Wednesday of Barack Obama as a leader ready to confront ...
Former rival Hillary Rodham Clinton asked the convention delegates to make it unanimous, the culmination of a painstaking agreement worked out between the two camps to...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) _ On the eve of Hurricane Katrina's third anniversary, a nervous New Orleans watched Wednesday as another storm threatened to test everything the city...
DENVER (AP) _ Barack Obama will accept his party's presidential nomination by laying out a case for sweeping political change and illustrating the choice voters face b...
Flood victims can apply for federal money to repair damages from Tropical Storm Fay under a decision announced Tuesday by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
The chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court will judge a competition of University of Florida law students on Sept. 5.And if that wasn't enough happening on campus, UF...
Tropical Storm Fay frustrated forecasters with its twisted, crawling trek through Florida, where it dumped more than 20 inches of rain in some parts of the state.But i...
The Florida Highway Patrol will hold a checkpoint on State Road 500 in Levy County Friday, the agency reported.The detail is aimed at motorists operating a vehicle wit...
Her speech, just a couple of hours before the nomination vote was scheduled, was frequently interrupted by shouts from the crowd, including a brief chant of "Roll call...
Stalled more than four months ago due to problems with financing, the partially constructed Stadium Club condominiums may receive some help from a New York-based devel...
More than 50 employers are expected for the 19th-annual Fall Job Fair from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday in the gymnasium (V Building) at Santa Fe College.
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton released her remaining convention delegates on Wednesday as Democrats were poised to formally deliver the party's presidential nomination t...
Officials have offered Anthony a partial immunity deal if she admits 3-year-old Caylee Marie died as a result of an accident. If she takes the deal, any information An...
Leonard Padilla said if he knew what he knew today about the case, he probably would not have helped the 22-year-old mother of Caylee Marie Anthony out of jail.
Authorities say an autopsy on a Marion County Jail inmate has ruled her death was due to natural causes, not foul play. Florida Department of Law Enforcement spokeswom...
A 16-year-old student carried a loaded revolver into his classroom at the North Area Alternative Learning Center in Mims on Tuesday, but was caught without incident, l...
Floridians would rather have Mitt Romney tapped as Republican John McCain's vice presidential pick than see their own first-term governor riding the ticket, an Orlando...
Tiny Dancer, the pint-sized pooch who captured the nation's imagination last year, is dead. The 5-inch-tall Chihuahua, who nearly nabbed a Guinness World Record as the...
A day after one of their own was unceremoniously unseated, Miami-Dade school board members politely hinted that Superintendent Rudy Crew's departure from the district ...
DENVER (AP) _ Joe Biden declared Wednesday that America doesn't need a good soldier in the White House, it needs the wise leadership of Barack Obama. As Biden conclude...
Just before the early voting and absentee ballot results appeared on a screen inside the supervisor of elections office Tuesday, Martin County Commissioner Lee Weberma...
Though Palm Beach County election nights tend to be long and tiring, few expected to still be waiting for results just a few hours before dawn on Wednesday.
A state consultant thinks he may have an answer about why Tampa Bay Water's regional reservoir wasn't built according to plan, but he says he isn't sure how it was mis...
Some of Florida's delegates didn't see their votes count, after all. Florida Democratic Party chair Karen Thurman first announced on the convention floor that her stat...
After a night -- and day -- of counting votes, three fundraising front-runners proved what could be the golden rule of politics: whoever has the gold, rules.
DENVER (AP) _ Former President Clinton gave his full-throated endorsement to Barack Obama's bid for the White House on Wednesday, telling delegates to the Democratic c...
Police Chief Stephen Hogue said the city's crime rate dropped 12 percent in the first six months of this year compared with the same time period in 2007.
Hours after passing out posters with his name and picture, police have found the man accused of gunning down a taxicab driver in Hollywood earlier this month in an att...
Two weeks ago, managers for incumbent Miami-Dade School Board member Evelyn Greer ran a tracking poll to see how she was doing against retired school principal Larry F...
TAMPA - Despite a demolition order and looming fines for its owner, the fate of the former Gary Adult High School appears to be as shaky as the remnants of the 95-year...
put anti-Castro punk rocker Gorki Aguila on trial The Cuban rocker whose biting profanity-laced lyrics against the Castro government has previously gotten him in troub...
A Division of Forestry firefighter is accused of stealing aluminum piping from his employer and selling it to scrap metal dealers, Polk County deputies say.
After spending most of Tuesday and early this morning flogging Haiti, Hurricane Gustav has started a slow movement away from the island and across the Windward Passage...
Four men terrorized a family of three for nearly 10 hours before driving them to their pawnshop, forcing them to open a safe at gunpoint, triggering the alarm that sen...
If Dwyane Wade is as effective in the coming season as he was with the U.S. Olympic team, the Miami Heat could be in store for a sequel to Thursday's planned banner-ra...
PINECREST, Fla. -- The big win for the newest school board member could have big implications for Superintendent Dr. Rudy Crew and the superintendent's job may be in j...
Nearly two weeks ago, upon the Dolphins' return to South Florida after a preseason win in Jacksonville, coach Tony Sparano and quarterback Chad Henne were chatting abo...
Mayor Rita Ellis was driving so erratically on Linton Boulevard earlier this month that a man in a car ahead of her feared she "might be intoxicated," according to pol...
NORTH MIAMI BEACH, Fla. -- A South Florida community can now breath a sigh of relief after several suspects accused of a violent crime spree are behind bars.
Charged with trying to kill his ex-girlfriend when he was 17 years old, Cyekime Jones will have only two misdemeanor convictions on his record as a result of a plea de...
Arrest warrants were issued today for a tow truck operator accused of taking parked vehicles and selling them for scrap, the Manatee County Sheriff's Office said.
A judge said today that Barbara Pullman, despite her genuine mental problems, must be held accountable for stabbing her 34-year-old boyfriend to death when she was 16 ...
The last time a University of Miami freshman quarterback started in a season opener was on Sept. 3, 1983. His name was Bernie Kosar, he lost 28-3 to the Florida Gators...