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Lottery players across the United States - including Florida for the first time - are buying their Mega Millions tickets in preparation for Friday's massive $190 million drawing.

The pollsters are among the best in the business, highly respected and worth the full consideration of both casual readers and the most hard-core of political junkies.

From the air, it's an astonishing sight: two gigantic palm trees fallen flat on the sea, which on closer inspection turn out to be an intricate network of manmade islands.

Florida's Gov. Rick Scott broke ranks this spring, becoming the most prominent Republican, tea-party type governor to accept federal Medicaid expansion under Obamacare, even though he was probably only doing it to save his political skin .

In Florida, where one in five non-elderly residents lack insurance coverage, the consequences are especially large: An estimated 1.3 million Floridians were expected to gain coverage through the the Medicaid expansion.

Florida Democratic leaders want Republican Gov. Rick Scott to veto the state budget or call a special session after the Legislature adjourned without passing an expansion of the state's Medicaid program.

After agreeing this week to give up state reimbursement for a planned trip to Hawaii, two School Employee Retirement System board members were thwarted today in another attempt to go on somebody else's dime.

In the closing days of their legislative sessions, lawmakers in more than a dozen states are struggling with whether to expand Medicaid under the federal health-care law , with many of them leaning against participating in a program that is key to President Obama's aim of extending coverage to 30 million uninsured Americans.

It happened again last week -- Republicans in the House of Representatives failed to dismantle a key provision of the Affordable Care Act, often referred to as Obamacare.

Richard G. Bodenbender, 77, of Continental, died at 12:48 a.m. Sunday, April 28, 2013, at St.

Butch Cassidy: I couldn't do that. Could you do that? Why can they do it? Who are those guys? Who are those guys, indeed! We all know the story of the skewed redistricting in states controlled by Republicans after the 2010 election, but I wanted to look more in depth where the Republicans had the largest effect.

Florida House and Senate leaders are negotiating a deal that would use state and federal dollars to offer health coverage thousands of uninsured Floridians under President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, according to a person close to the talks.

ASCA has announced three Capitol Fly-In events for 2013, which give industry leaders and advocates the opportunity to learn about issues affecting ASCs and the legislative process.

Since the man's bones were found along the Lake Erie shoreline more than seven years ago, the Lucas County Coroner's Office has fielded inquiries from investigators with unsolved cases and anxious family members looking for loved ones.