ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) _ Investigators are looking into the cause of a scuba tank explosion that killed a St. Petersburg man carrying the tank …

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) _ Former state Rep. Carlos Lacasa of Miami is the pick to become the next chairman of the board that oversees the …

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) _ Gov. Rick Scott and top Florida Republicans are sending early signals they could reject the billions in federal aid that could …

MIAMI (AP) _ A federal judge on Friday upheld a Florida constitutional amendment imposing new rules restricting how congressional districts are drawn, rejecting a lawsuit …

ATLANTA (AP) _ President Barack Obama's jobs pitch is already playing well with blacks, who had grown plenty irked with him over what they perceived …

OHNSTON, Iowa (AP) _ Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich says President Barack Obama needs to be more aggressive in confronting Republicans and should use the …

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) _ Republican Party Chairman David Bitner died Thursday at his Monticello home, just two weeks before he was scheduled to step down …

NEW ORLEANS (AP) _ The book “Nine Lives'' by New York writer Dan Baum has been chosen for a New Orleans reading project.

WASHINGTON (AP) _ Struggling to fix the sickly economy, President Barack Obama was appealing for support from a divided Congress Thursday night for a battery …

PORT ANTONIO, Jamaica — The Jolly Boys, a trio of elderly Jamaican musicians who play a rollicking type of folk music nearly forgotten by time, …