After weeks of infighting and stalled negotiations, Florida’s legislative leaders released a slimmed-down budget for the next fiscal year on Friday. The $115.1 billion spending plan is supposed to ...

McClure blamed too much federal money in previous years for Florida’s “not sustainable” spending habits. About a third of the state’s budget is federal money. But lawmakers are now facing a ...

By Mandy Miles and Jim McCarthy Confusion, rumor, outrage and alarm have permeated online comments and real-life ...

Michael Bell, 54, is scheduled to die by lethal injection July 15 for the mistaken-revenge killing of two people outside of ...