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AP National Writer Cornel West and Tavis Smiley are planning a 15-city “Poverty Tour” to bring attention to the needy and to what they say …

Special to South Florida Times Plans for two Community Redevelopment Areas (CRAs) and a redevelopment trust fund are underway in the city of Miami’s District …

RMHarris15@Aol.com A week after the death of pioneering judge John Johnson, South Florida has lost another prominent jurist. Retired Judge Harold Braynon, 79, died on …

MIAMI — Several residents of Miami’s Overtown neighborhood left a meeting Monday night of the Southeast Overtown/Park West Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) angry and without …

EJones@SFLTimes.com FORT LAUDERDALE — The former treasurer of an influential political organization who admitted writing checks to himself has now retained a prominent South Florida …

WASHINGTON (AP) _ Lawyers for conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart asked Tuesday that a federal judge throw out a defamation case that former government employee Shirley …

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) _ The attorney representing Dixie County is appealing a federal court ruling that ordered county officials to remove a granite monument of …

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) _ Florida Gov. Rick Scott has backed off slightly on the fees he slapped on requests for public records.

BOSTON (AP) _ A Massachusetts man who pleaded guilty to sending letters threatening to burn black churches and NAACP offices in three states because he …

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) _ A union representing correctional officers has sued to block the implementation of a state budget provision that would privatize 18 prison …