U.S. Sen. Mel Martinez left Washington on Wednesday with some regrets, some accomplishments and some frustration with a process he says often puts politics ahead of policy. His farewell speech to the Senate came 16 months before his first term was to expire. His resignation leaves one Hispanic in the Senate, Robert Menendez, D-N.J. Gov. Charlie Crist picked his former chief of staff, George LeMieux, to replace Martinez. ...more

September 10, 2009

The head of Florida's Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles Department is resigning. ...more

September 4, 2009

Florida's public employee pension and hurricane catastrophe funds are benefiting from an upswing in the financial markets. ...more

September 2, 2009

Gov. Charlie Crist has signed a new 20-year, $6.8 billion gambling compact with the Seminole Tribe, hours before tonight's deadline. ...more

August 31, 2009

Gov. Charlie Crist's decision to name former aide and political strategist George LeMieux to fill the seat of retiring U.S. Sen. Mel Martinez was immediately controversial Friday. ...more

August 28, 2009

Pinellas County Rep. CW Bill Young has pulled himself out of consideration to be appointed by Gov. Charlie Crist to fill Florida's vacant Senate seat. ...more

August 24, 2009

Florida Republicans are hoping to use the health care debate as a rallying cry to win voters in the next election. ...more

August 22, 2009

Fertilizer runoff is a major contributor to water quality degradation throughout Florida. The haphazard use of nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizers in lawns, landscapes and golf courses has been implicated as a pollutant of major water bodies. ...more

August 16, 2009

Gov. Charlie Crist on Friday named former Walter Industries executive Don DeFosset to the Tampa Sports Authority for a term ending July 1, 2013. ...more

August 15, 2009

A Wesley Chapel man who once stalked Hillsborough County State Attorney Mark Ober may have planned to kill the prosecutor and made threats against judges. ...more

August 14, 2009