By MICHELLE R. SMITH and LAURA UNGAR Associated Press More than 420 anti-science bills attacking longstanding public health protections – vaccines, milk safety and fluoride – have been introduced in statehouses across the U.S. this year, part of an organized, politically savvy campaign ...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A man convicted of raping and fatally beating his former manager at a Florida convenience store is scheduled to be put to death in November under a death warrant signed Tuesday by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is setting a record pace for executions. Richard ...
By DAVID FISCHER Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Professional golf legend Jack Nicklaus has won a $50 million verdict in a defamation lawsuit filed in Florida against his former business partners. A six-person jury in Palm Beach County found Monday that the Nicklaus Companies had damaged ...
By MARK LONG AP Sports Writer GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Even though Florida has retained a search firm to help land the school's next football coach, athletic director Scott Stricklin said Monday he will have final say in the hiring process. And he won't be in a rush to get it ...
By MORIAH BALINGIT AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Head Start programs that serve tens of thousands of the nation's neediest preschoolers are facing a cutoff of federal funding at the end of the month because of the government shutdown, leaving many scrambling to figure out how to ...
By MARK LONG AP Sports Writer GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Even though Florida has retained a search firm to help land the school's next football coach, athletic director Scott Stricklin said Monday he will have final say in the hiring process. And he won't be in a rush to get it ...
By MARK LONG AP Sports Writer GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Florida fired coach Billy Napier on Sunday, dumping him a day after an error-filled win against Mississippi State that included more head-scratching calls and offensive lulls like those that marked much of his four-year run with the ...
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Criminal charges have been dropped against a Florida man who authorities said abandoned his dog in floodwaters near a highway as residents evacuated Florida's Gulf Coast last year shortly before Hurricane Milton made landfall. The case led to legislation signed into law ...
By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A suspect in the Los Angeles area's deadly Palisades Fire earlier this year was ordered to be moved to California on Thursday from central Florida, where he was arrested last week. A hearing for Jonathan Rinderknecht that had been ...
By KATE PAYNE Associated Press/Report for America A Florida judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked the planned transfer of prime downtown Miami land for President Donald Trump's future presidential library. The move by Circuit Judge Mavel Ruiz came after a Miami activist alleged that ...
