Florida was one of only three states to both execute someone and put more people on death row in 2024. Florida also has more wrongful convictions than any other state.

Lake County Judge Heidi Davis is working to determine if the state presented enough evidence to dismiss a Stand Your Ground case against Leesburg dentist Dr. Eddie Orobitg.

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South Florida Democrats in Congress face a strategic and moral quandary as they try to figure out how to operate in a ...

Attorney General Merrick Garland had agreed not to make the special counsel's findings public while the Justice Department ...

Laken Riley Act: President Trump signed his first bill into law, and it closely tracked his agenda on immigration. The bill ...

[4] On March 3, 2022, the Florida Supreme Court approved new legislative maps drawn by the Florida State Legislature ... resigned to run in a special election for Florida's 1st Congressional District.

Conservative judges have chipped away at voting rights and put the Voting Rights Act through renewed stress over the last ...

A Florida appeals court has revived a human smuggling case against a man accused of transporting undocumented immigrants into ...

passion and tenacity that I have brought as attorney general as a United States senator,” she said. Florida’s soon-to-be senior Sen. Rick Scott (R) said in a post on X that he has “no doubt ...

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While we were merrily distracted, tens of thousands of Florida homeowners received letters ... but the rest of us can’t ignore it. There’s no question sea level is rising and the water table ...