Florida Politics News

Hawkins had been in poor health recently, having suffered a stroke and a fall, said U.S...Senate, the Republican positioned herself as a media-savvy champion of children and working mothers and an enemy of drug dealers. She lost her bid for...

Fla. — State economists crunched numbers into the night Friday, but preliminary figures show Florida's general revenue will be a bit higher than previously forecast for the current fiscal year and the three that follow it. The revised estimate reflects...

The Florida Commission on Ethics threw out complaints Friday against Lt. Gov. Jeff Kottkamp, Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink and Attorney General Bill McCollum for their use of state airplanes. Even the man who filed a complaint against Kottkamp praised...

Florida lawmakers dug into a 49-page bill Friday that conjures a future of passenger trains zipping through the state. But for the proposed SunRail commuter-rail system in Central Florida, the bill comes down to this: Will lawmakers go along with...

Manatee teacher suspended for improperly discipling student Chris O'Donnell Published: Friday, December 4, 2009 at 3:42 p.m. A Manatee County teacher may be fired after being suspended for the second time in seven months for improperly disciplining students. District officials...

Fla. — The Florida House wrangled Friday over a proposal to create a commuter rail system in central Florida as a prelude to the bill's expected passage in that chamber Monday. The situation, though, isn't as clear in the Senate,...

Florida’s high school graduation rate jumped by 3 percentage points to a record 76.3 percent this year, state education officials said Friday, but a critic said the state is still a “dropout factory.” In Manatee and Sarasota’s school district’s the...

The Florida lawyer arrested on racketeering and fraud charges donated to political campaigns with funds from a $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme, prosecutors alleged. Federal prosecutors said Scott Rothstein, arrested Tuesday, also once hosted 2008 Republican presidential nominee John McCain at...