For 19 years, Mike Graef has earned a living on the daily fishing charters he books out of Destin in Florida's Panhandle. The boat captain has taken tourists from as far away as Australia, Alaska and Hawaii on his standard six-hour trip, and says most have the same goal - a full catch of red snapper.
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The Polk County Sheriff's Office says a woman who didn't stop at an intersection died Wednesday when her car was hit by a school bus on the passenger side and a van on the driver side.
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Detectives are investigating the fatal shooting of two people Wednesday night in South Beach.
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Touch-screen voting machines likely performed properly and were not to blame for the large number of undervotes in the District 13 congressional election in 2006, federal investigators said in a draft report obtained by the Associated Press Wednesday.
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Citing a recent shooting rampage against Miami-Dade police, two South Florida Democratic lawmakers announced legislation Wednesday to increase penalties against criminals who use guns or obtain them with false identities.
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A second day of hearings to determine why many homeowners haven't seen the rate decreases lawmakers promised last year brought some familiar frustrations and a few surprises.
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Budget cuts and chronic underfunding have left Florida's university system on the brink of a crisis that could leave tens of thousands of students without access to a college education, according to a report by a group that monitors state universities.
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Top state legislators say they're ready to join the fight over putting the word ''evolution'' in Florida's public school science standards to ensure that it's taught as just a theory and not as fact.
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A federal appeals court on Tuesday threw out an agreement that Georgia reached with the Army Corps of Engineers for water rights to a major federal reservoir outside Atlanta, handing Alabama and Florida a major victory in the states' years-long water wars.
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Florida voters got so caught up in the excitement of Super Tuesday many tried to cast ballots for the presidential primaries - again.
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After two more days of grueling questions to state regulators and insurance company executives, a special Senate panel wrapped up its business Tuesday as confused as when it began.
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Florida's attorney general is reviewing whether cruise lines such as Carnival Corp. and Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. adequately disclosed surcharges they started billing passengers this month to offset rising fuel prices.
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As a special Senate committee began, Allstate Floridian's chief executive explained that the company didn't pass on savings from its reinsurance purchases because Allstate's rates already were inadequate.
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Pitching in the World Series is scary, but Hall of Famer Jim Palmer said it didn't compare to sitting around after undergoing surgery to reattach his retina, wondering whether it was a success or if he'd be blind in one eye for the rest of his life.
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A Florida Panhandle lawmaker urged the State Board of Education on Monday to call evolution a ''theory'' in revised science standards the panel will consider later this month.
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President Bush's budget proposal, released Monday, calls for millions of dollars to restore Florida's Everglades. But environmentalists -- and even a fellow Republican -- said Monday the request suggests that the federal government is still falling short of its promise to split the cost with the state.
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The Girl Scout got her money back. But the teenagers who swiped an envelope with $164 of cookie cash from a 9-year-old last week in suburban Lake Worth haven't been arrested. And they haven't apologized.
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As Central Florida police and state law enforcement agents continued the child-porn investigation into the former spokesman for the state's child welfare agency, administrators announced a series of actions Monday to better vet job applicants.
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Consider this the next time you swim in the Atlantic: A graduate student's study suggests that South Florida beachgoers who spend considerable time in the wet sand and surf run a greater risk of getting sick than those who don't.
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Consider this the next time you swim in the Atlantic: A graduate student's study suggests that South Florida beachgoers who spend considerable time in the wet sand and surf run a greater risk of getting sick than those who don't.
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