Even Hollywood couldn't have written a more ideal script for the Internal Revenue Service than actor Wesley Snipes' tax-fraud trial.
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Hillary Clinton's victory Tuesday in Florida took some sting out of a resounding South Carolina defeat and gives her the bragging rights that come with winning the biggest, most diverse state to vote so far.
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John McCain won Florida's Republican primary with the help of the state's wildly popular governor, his own war-hero biography and some crafty campaigning.
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John McCain's decisive victory in the biggest state to vote so far turned him into an instant front-runner and delivered a ''take-that'' message to naysayers who question the iconoclastic Arizona senator's acceptance by the Republican establishment.
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Florida voters gave themselves a tax cut Tuesday, deciding that about $240 in property-tax relief is better than none in a campaign season cloaked in economic woe. Voters approved Amendment 1 by a 64-to-36 margin, with the most expensive real-estate region in the state, South Florida, giving it resounding approval.
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Cocoa Beach commissioner Tony Sasso will face Merritt Island businessman Sean Campbell in an election next month to replace Rep. Bob Allen, who resigned after being convicted of solicitation.
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Two people are hospitalized after their small plane crashed in the Florida Keys.
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The famous mermaids of Weeki Wachee Springs will become state employees on November first.
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Even Hollywood couldn't have written a more ideal script for the Internal Revenue Service than actor Wesley Snipes' tax-fraud trial.
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A 28-year-old soldier died of wounds suffered in an explosion in Baghdad, military officials said Monday. Staff Sgt. Robert J. Wilson of Boynton Beach died Saturday after a bomb detonated while he was conducting a dismounted patrol, the Department of Defense said.
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Thursday is the last day to enroll in the Florida Prepaid College Plan at the current rates. The cost of a four-year University Tuition Plan is about $93.12 a month for a newborn, according to a statement from the Florida Prepaid College Board.
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On the last day of Florida's most intense Republican primary campaign in decades, the invectives began flying at dawn.
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The Hispanic vote -- and racial politics in general -- will be critical in the Democratic race. Hillary Clinton is expected to win Florida by a large margin, with Hispanic voters backing her over Barack Obama by about a 3-1 ratio.
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Six out of 10 new air traffic controllers at a major radar complex in South Florida do not receive adequate training, the National Air Traffic Controllers Association said.
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A 28-year-old soldier died of wounds suffered from an explosive in Baghdad, military officials said Monday.
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Poor maintenance work performed by an overworked mechanical staff caused a helicopter crash that killed two people last year, according to safety reports released Monday.
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Purse in hand and eyeglasses on, 80-year-old Ruth Spivak stood behind a velvet rope Monday at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, just steps away from the bright lights, musical chiming and big jackpots of the tribe's first Las Vegas-style slot machines.
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A man facing deportation to Haiti despite his acquittal on terrorism conspiracy charges can speak publicly about his immigration situation but not about the underlying criminal case, a federal judge ruled Monday.
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That Old Time Religion isn't good enough for the campaign trail in the Florida Republican primary. Only one candidate, Baptist minister Mike Huckabee, went to church on the Sunday before Election Day. And candidate Rudy Giuliani, who is Catholic, went to a synagogue and donned a yarmulke.
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The Republican presidential race became so bitter Sunday that even Florida's sunny and immensely popular governor got dissed. The disser-in-chief: former Florida House Speaker Allan Bense. He suggested the Republican governor's endorsement of John McCain could actually hurt the candidate in the Panhandle because Crist is seen as too moderate.
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