More Florida students performed at or above grade level in reading and math on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test this year compared with any year since 2001, state education officials said Tuesday. ...more

June 11, 2008

Construction of a groundbreaking cancer research center expected to create an estimated 165 high-paying science jobs is well under way near the University of South Florida. ...more

June 7, 2008

NORTH TAMPA - Construction of a groundbreaking cancer research center expected to create an estimated 165 high-paying science jobs is well under way near the University of South Florida. Construction workers wheeling heavy equipment kicked up clouds of dust this week at the site of M2Gen, a joint venture of the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer & Research Institute and drugmaker Merck & Co., at 10902 N. Malcolm McKinley Drive. "You can see the first of four floors going up," Rick Garrison, chief operating officer at M2Gen, said Tuesday. ...more

June 5, 2008

TALLAHASSEE - Gov. Charlie Crist has signed a bill requiring Florida elementary schools provide 30 minutes of continuous exercise daily for their students. ...more

June 3, 2008

Justice Kenneth Bell on Friday became the Florida Supreme Court's second conservative member in six weeks to unexpectedly retire, giving Republican Gov. Charlie Crist a chance to reshape the seven-member bench. ...more

May 24, 2008

The Florida Supreme Court cleared all state legal obstacles to the July 1 execution of child killer Mark Dean Schwab on Wednesday, but he could take his case to the federal courts. ...more

May 22, 2008

It would seem since he left office that former Gov. Jeb Bush has been on a parallel universe tour rivaling Marlon Brando's Col. Kurtz in "Apocalypse Now." ...more

May 6, 2008

Florida voters will decide this fall whether to tack another penny onto the state sales tax and whether to resurrect one of former Gov. Jeb Bush's pet education projects. They will also weigh in on various tax breaks. ...more

May 4, 2008

The specter of shuttered courthouses from Key West to Pensacola was raised Wednesday after local chief judges said they and others were told to furlough key employees to save about $17 million statewide. ...more

February 21, 2008

John McCain's embrace from the Republican establishment, once hard to imagine, is nearly complete. ...more

February 16, 2008