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It's an urgent issue seemingly on the minds of many in this retiree mecca, if not the entire state of Florida — how to fix Social Security. And voters' proposed solutions to the tricky problem are just as varied as the stances of the Republican presidential candidates seeking their support.
The Florida presidential primary is on.
Did you hear about the giant Lego man that washed up on Siesta Key beach? What about the man who walked into a bar, ordered a beer and disappeared for 30 minutes to rob a bank, only to return and finish his drink? Or how about the puzzling story of the baby grand piano that showed up on a sandbar near Miami?
Republican Congressman Connie Mack IV has announced he's entering the U.S. Senate race.
Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich says he expects media scrutiny in the coming weeks and welcomes it.
Sarah Palin told Republican donors Thursday that Occupy Wall Street protesters want the same thing as the "fat cats" they're upset with — a government bailout.
Cheryl Abbarno was the most excited she's ever been about a presidential election when Barack Obama was on the ballot in 2008, but she isn't sure she'll vote for him again.
Boeing is taking over one of NASA's old space shuttle hangars to build a new capsule that the company hopes will lift astronauts to orbit in four or five years.
As Rep. Connie Mack IV of Florida prepares to jump into a U.S. Senate race instead of seeking re-election, he is likely to become the instant front-runner — at least for now — in a Republican primary where the current field has failed to gain momentum.
In Florida, where Cuba and Fidel Castro can be highly combustible political issues, Republican Sen. Marco Rubio is defending himself against allegations he embellished his family's story in saying his parents left the island after Castro came to power.
A man convicted of killing an Ohio mother and her two teenage daughters in the Tampa Bay area after the family's Disney World vacation in June 1989 is set to receive a lethal injection Nov. 15.
Presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann pivoted her focus to jobs and the economy Wednesday during her first campaign appearance in Iowa since winning the leadoff caucus state's Republican straw poll earlier this month.
Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann said Friday she wouldn't rule out changes to the federal minimum wage as a way to lower the cost of doing business and lure corporations back to the United States.
Florida is the biggest prize in the 2012 election, so it's no coincidence that the GOP nominating convention will be in Tampa, Sen. Marco Rubio is being discussed as a possible VP pick and there are Floridians in leadership roles at both national parties.
In office just six months, Gov. Rick Scott has kept his campaign promises and then some: cutting corporate taxes, reducing the size of government, drug testing welfare recipients, making government workers pay into their pensions, and privatizing Medicaid.
President Barack Obama has problems in Florida that he didn't have when he won the prized state in 2008.
Sometimes sexual abuse survivor Lauren Book deals with anger by smashing plates against the side of the house. Other times, she channels her energy into changing laws, efforts that began soon after she turned in her nanny for repeatedly raping her. Nine years later she has a reputation as Florida's most effective advocate for getting bills signed that help victims, prevent abuse and make it easier to prosecute offenders.
California's governor wants to maintain temporary tax increases to keep $9 billion a year flowing to the state treasury. Low-tax Texas is considering tapping its rainy day account to soften the effects of deep spending cuts. New York's governor pushed through budget cuts while keeping a campaign pledge to avoid tax increases.
Florida's former U.S. Senator George LeMieux (leh-MYOO') is launching a campaign for the job he held briefly following the resignation of Sen. Mel Martinez in 2009.
In a virtual replay of 2008, Florida is bucking national Democrats and Republicans in planning an early presidential primary, an act of defiance that creates strategic challenges for GOP candidates and could unravel the parties' primary calendar next year.
Florida's new Senate president, who wants the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate next year, got $152,000 from a coastal community college to write a book on politics, a product taxpayers will have to share if they want to see.
Gen. James Cartwright told an economic club Friday that protests like the ones that brought down leaders in Egypt and Tunisia will continue to spread as long as authoritarian regimes don't meet the needs of their people.
When a local Young Republicans group invited former Congressman Mark Foley to speak to them, the reaction was swift and blunt even within GOP circles.
Gov. Rick Scott, welcome to Twitter.
President Barack Obama plans to loosen Cuban travel policy to allow students and church groups to go to the communist country, the administration announced Friday.
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