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Florida voters aren't all-onboard with Republican Florida Sen. Marco Rubio 's handling of the congressional immigration debate or his vote against beefing up background checks on gun purchases.

Publix Super Markets, through its seasonal Food for All donation campaign, raised almost $117,000 late last year.

Florida retailers are calling out U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., for opposing legislation that would require online retailers to pay state sales tax.

SP_329023_SHAD_sink_02 Alex Sink, the Democratic candidate for governor, speaks to the St. Petersburg Times editorial board.

Florida Gov. Rick Scott's approval rating is improving, a poll released Tuesday shows, though not to the point that it's likely to deter any potential challengers in 2014.

Starting Sept. 30, Cousteau will lead Mission 31, where he and his team will live underwater and conduct research experiments, according to his website.

Three Central Florida children are among Legoland Florida's Buddy Brick Bunch, the theme park's new ambassadors, and they helped christen a vehicle for the Quest of Chi ride with water cannons this weekend.

A tree likely toppled by lightning during strong thunderstorms late Monday damaged two Longwood homes and knocked out power to an entire neighborhood.

NSA leaker Edward Snowden is defending his disclosure of top-secret U.S. spying programs in an online chat with The Guardian and attacking U.S. officials for calling him a traitor.

It will soon be a little harder to get high on illegal drugs in Florida. A new bill signed by Governor Rick Scott makes it illegal for retail stores to knowingly sell drug paraphernalia like glass pipes and bongs.

In Tallahassee, each of the governors average about two executions per year during their years in office.

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Former lightweight Champion Freddie Pendleton shadow boxes for training for his welterweight title bout with James Page in Las Vegas.

A tax accountant who serves as a church deacon, a youth football coach, a Disney World costume designer and a Dunedin retiree were among 41 people arrested during a weeklong Polk County sting targeting online sexual predators, officials said.

Not the average place you would go out to have a drink. Deputies say two women were arrested Friday for drinking wine inside a Wal-Mart.

A southwest Florida woman has been arrested after police say she poured a bottle of muriatic acid onto a person's face.

In a special Father's Day edition of the Sunday Spotlight on ABC's This Week, former Florida governor Jeb Bush reflected on lessons learned from his father and hinted about his own political future.

Some mornings, Lara Collier dons rubber boots to walk the farm, snapping pictures of vegetables to share on social media and bundling bunches of leeks, strawberries and watermelon for customers.

Metz, a former Lake School Board member first elected to the Legislature in 2010, was named the 2013 Most Valuable Legislator for sponsoring the business group's legal-reform initiative aimed at modernizing expert-testimony standards.

Previous experience includes: senior vice president of corporate banking division and president of community banking division of Union Planters Bank, Coral Gables; president and chief executive of Ready State Bank, Hialeah; and vice president and branch manager of Capital Bank, Miami; vice president and branch manager of Intercontinental Bank, ... (more)