For all the lengths Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain have gone to in keeping their hunt for a vice president under wraps, their deliberations are in some ways being conducted in plain sight. ...more

July 20, 2008

Eighteen months after Florida botched its last execution, its new lethal injection procedures resulted in what appeared to be a smooth and peaceful death Tuesday for child killer Mark Dean Schwab. ...more

July 5, 2008

For most of the past 20 years, Carolyn Roberts has helped oversee Florida's university system. She has fought plenty of battles, but always on the side of what she thought was best for Florida's students. ...more

July 4, 2008

Florida's revised method of executing condemned inmates was put to its first test Tuesday night in Starke, and it appeared to work perfectly in ending the life of a vicious child killer. ...more

July 3, 2008

Florida's new procedure for lethal injections could be tested Tuesday when executioners strap down a condemned inmate for the first time since a botched execution. ...more

June 30, 2008

STARKE - Florida's new procedure for lethal injections could be tested Tuesday when executioners strap down a condemned inmate for the first time since a botched execution. ...more

June 29, 2008

TRINITY - While a long-delayed fire station is under construction in Trinity, county officials pretty much have closed the book on building a Trinity library branch anytime soon. A library project in the booming area of Trinity looked like it might take off in 2005 with a state grant for more than $430,000. At one time there was talk of co-locating a Trinity fire station with a library and passive park, Dan Johnson, Pasco's assistant county administrator for public services, recalled. ...more

June 25, 2008

Tim Russert had an interest in Florida politics that led him to come here frequently as a debate moderator in important state races - and on occasion even made him an issue in those races. ...more

June 14, 2008

The battle in Florida over school vouchers returned to the courts on Friday when teacher, civil rights and other groups sued the state to keep two voucher-related proposals off November's ballot. ...more

June 14, 2008

Tim Russert had an interest in Florida politics that led him to come here frequently as a debate moderator in important state races - and on occasion even made him an issue in those races. Several of those debates were in Tampa under the auspices of WFLA-TV. ...more

June 13, 2008