Florida

Just three weeks after the Florida House overturned a ban on adoptions by gay parents, a panel in the same chamber Thursday advanced language allowing adoption and foster care agencies…
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Just as 13-year-old Branden Petro flops into the passenger seat of his mom's car, his eyes roll back. His face twitches uncontrollably. He curls into a fetal position.
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Our Cuban-American politicians don’t care about those persons who will never vote for, or against, them. That’s why they pander to those who still dream of 1958 in Havana. These same…
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The Compassionate Medical Cannabis Act, signed by Gov. Rick Scott last June, calls for the creation of a state framework to provide medically needy patients with a strain of marijuana –…
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A record number of inmates — 346 — died last year in Florida prisons. Most were from natural causes but federal and state law enforcement agencies are investigating why there were so…
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Miami, Florida, USA.
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Miami has become, borrowing the title of the Charles Dickens classic, a tale of two cities. Actually, if you look around, it’s what’s happening in too many parts of our world.
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A Tallahassee home co-owned by a scandal-plagued ex-congressman is the locus of questions about the senator’s finances and judgment.
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Florida Governor Rick Scott doesn't want state workers to use the phrases "climate change" and "global warming." Of course, Scott denies there is any such policy under his…
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The Republican-led state’s environmental agency issued orders in 2011 banning its employees from using the phrases “climate change” and “global warming.”
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