A three-year push to replace the statue of Confederate General Kirby Smith currently representing Florida in the nation’s Capitol is on its way to the Governor’s desk. The replacement will be civil ...

USF President Judy Genshaft was in Tallahassee today pleading her case that the University of South Florida not be penalized in budget cuts this year. As Mike Vasilinda tells us, both Genshaft and ...

From clothing, to rope, to building insulation, a group of would be entrepreneurs want the state to legalize industrial hemp. The weed, a non euphoric version of marijuana is a cash crop in some ...

People hungry and fed up with long waiting periods to get food stamps are turning to food banks to feed their families. Florida’s food banks gave away 72 million pounds of food last year. Food bank ...

Two state universities could be merged with UF and FSU and sweeping changes to scholarships for private universities are part of a controversial higher education package passed by a House committee ...

Florida lawmakers are once again looking to make changes to the Florida High School Athletic Association. A bill approved by its first Senate committee Tuesday would require FHSAA to allow schools, ...

In addition to being Abraham Lincoln’s 200th birthday, today is also the 100th anniversary of the NAACP. Governor Charlie Crist spent the morning with Black leaders for a Civil Rights Roundtable at ...

The former Vice Chairman of the Citizens Task Force that studied the state’s Stand Your Ground law is calling on Governor Rick Scott to repeal the law. The state never followed through on a study of ...

Members of ABATE, or American Bikers Aiming Toward Education road on to the Capitol courtyard Monday morning, for their annual ceremony commemorating fallen bikers. They read roughly 50 names of ABATE ...

More than 350,000 people experience cardiac arrest outside of a hospital each year in the United States. Of those, more than 7,000 are children. The difference between life and death often comes down ...

Florida’s 42 Domestic Violence Shelters are on pins and needles as the state opens two investigations into Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence, the non-profit the funnels state money to the ...

State officials are asking Floridians to be on the lookout for census scammers. The official count begins next month. Census workers will be mailing out forms asking your age, race, and whether you ...