Bob Graham, Florida’s former governor and U.S. senator, stood before hundreds of people at Silver River State Park in Ocala last summer and reminisced about his childhood memories of peering through a glass-bottomed boat at the crystal-clear springs below.
It was an experience shared by almost everyone who gathered at the event – a rally called Speak Up for Florida’s Waters at Silver River State Park...
There is an Orlando lawyer who donates hundreds of pro bono hours assisting minors seeking a judge’s permission for abortions without parental consent. The stories are sad. The decisions are heart wrenching.
She wears a small gold hanger pendant to symbolize the many women and girls who died in desperation using wire hangers when abortion was illegal. When people ask, she will tell them she knows this...
High school spells pressure for most teenagers, no matter the era. Decisions like where to sit in class and what to wear to the prom are balanced against more significant choices -- whether to drink beer at a party, smoke pot or take drugs. Every decision can feel like the weight of the world.
This week parents in at least two Florida counties – Orange and Collier -- have to worry about a new kind of...
There was a story in the news recently about a college student who, for a class experiment, placed a fake turtle in the road to watch how drivers would react.
Would they swerve to avoid hitting it? Pull over and brave traffic to save it? Or ignore it and run over it?
Sadly, he found that...
The circus is in town. Every year in the month of January, the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus crisscrosses the state with shows scheduled from Tallahassee to Tampa and Orlando to Miami.
Ringling has been a giant name in Florida since John Ringling moved his traveling circus to Sarasota in 1927, bought up land and opened the Ringling Museum of Art for his extensive art collection....
With impassioned cries of gun control plastered on every social media site, it’s difficult to be on the side of the Second Amendment following the Newtown school massacre.
It appears the shooter’s mother acquired her firearms legally, registered them and took her two sons to the shooting range to make them feel more comfortable around guns. The killer’s mental health remains largely unknown....
All over the state, elections officials have been working overtime this week to hand-count ballots in very close races.
In Orange County, 64 votes separate two candidates for the County Commission. In St. Lucie County, 61 votes separate the candidates for Fort Pierce mayor. And in Lake County, just one vote stands between the winner and loser for a seat on the Mount Dora City Council....
Florida often finds itself in the national spotlight, but it’s usually for bizarre news and dumb criminals.
Just this year, a Miami man was shot and killed after he ate a homeless man’s face. An Orlando mother was acquitted of killing the daughter she said was kidnapped by a fake nanny. A giant eyeball washed ashore on Pompano Beach and a man died after winning a roach-eating contest in Deerfield...
When Earl K. Wood was elected Orange County tax collector, Lyndon B. Johnson was president, a gallon of gas cost 30 cents and the University of Mississippi had only recently accepted its first African-American student. The year was 1964.
Miami-Dade Clerk of Courts Harvey Ruvin was first elected to public office in 1968. He served as North Bay Village mayor and county commmissioner of what was then Dade County before becoming clerk in 1992.
Apopka Mayor John H. Land was elected to the post in 1949 and served until 1968. He was re-elected in 1970....
It started as a battle to ask voters next month to require businesses with 15 or more employees to provide their workers with paid sick leave.
Powerful business owners urged Orange County commissioners in an eight-hour public hearing last month to keep the question off the Nov. 6 ballot, saying they could not afford to provide the benefit.
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