State news

Incoming freshmen at Florida Gulf Coast University are getting more racially diverse, but they aren’t getting any smarter. It isn’t necessarily a problem for a university established to serve a distinct need for a local higher education option in Southwest ...

Is the United Farm Workers of America’s “Take Our Jobs” campaign, which is aimed at training U.S. citizens and legal residents who wish to replace farmworkers in the field, coming to Southwest Florida, too? Not quite yet. “In Florida the ...

Seeking ways to spur economic growth ahead of the November elections, President Barack Obama will ask Congress to increase and permanently extend research and development tax credits for businesses, a White House official said Sunday.

Paul Conrad, the political cartoonist who won three Pulitzer Prizes and used his pencil to poke at politicians for more than 50 years, died Saturday, his son said. He was 86.

Craigslist appears to have surrendered in a legal fight over erotic ads posted on its website, shutting down its adult services section Saturday and replacing it with a black bar that simply says "censored."

Icelike crystals had formed Saturday on the 300-ton blowout preventer that failed to stop oil from spewing into the Gulf of Mexico, forcing BP crews to wait before they could safely hoist the device to the surface.

A healthy economy needs bustling Main Streets and a thriving middle class even more than a healthy stock market, President Barack Obama said as he reaffirmed his commitment to work hard for America's hardworking men and women.

Someone in Naples is a lot richer. Two winners of the “Fantasy 5” game will collect $117,754.43 each, the Florida Lottery said Saturday.

The remnants of Hurricane Earl took aim at Nova Scotia early Saturday after a brush with the Northeast that was far less intense than feared, dumping heavy, wind-driven rain on Cape Cod cottages and fishing villages accustomed to nor'easters.

The suspicions airport security officials had when they saw the metal canister grew when they learned about the man who brought it in from the Middle East: a scientist who prompted a bioterrorism scare, and ultimately went to prison, after ...

The SB 4 changes won’t affect diplomas at the outset. By the 2013-14 school year, incoming high school students will have to pass geometry, Algebra I and a biology end-of-course exam to graduate. Students also will need to take Algebra ...

Gov. Charlie Crist has directed state transportation secretary to check for Holocaust involvement by companies bidding for Florida's high-speed rail contract.

State economists say Florida's budget gap for the next fiscal year will drop by more than half. A new long-range financial outlook released Friday estimates the difference between general revenue collections and critical to high priority needs at $2.5 billion ...

A federal appellate court has upheld a Florida law that prohibits funding for academic and research travel to nations that are considered "sponsors of terrorism." The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta ruled Tuesday that the state law does ...

Gov. Jan Brewer rose to national fame defending the state's immigration law and warning of rising violence along the U.S.-Mexico border, including a claim that headless bodies were turning up in the Arizona desert. But the claim has come back ...