In a move that could help add stability to an agency that has faced repeated controversies, Gov. Rick Scott on Monday named longtime Pinellas County resident Mike Carroll as secretary of the Florida Department of Children and Families.
Failing test scores aren't the only problem that has caused the military to reject applicants, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush says. Another problem is, well, more colorful: tattoos.
TALLAHASSEE — The new class of Republican state representatives doesn't fit the national GOP stereotype.
ST. PETERSBURG — A man driving a stolen vehicle no faster than 25 mph nevertheless led police on a 90-minute chase through north St. Petersburg neighborhoods Saturday night before they could arrest him.
![St. Petersburg police followed a front-end loader driving erratically near 62nd Avenue N. and 16th Street. The vehicle, a $250,000 Volvo L110G, drove onto side streets and through neighborhoods, hitting curbs and running stop signs. [St. Petersburg Police Department]](https://web.archive.org/web/20141209032611im_/http://www.tampabay.com/resources/images/dti/2014/12/loader2_14341559.jpg)
Come Jan. 6, Florida may become the 36th state in which same-sex couples can go to their local county clerk's office and get a marriage license.
Respected Ronald Reagan biographer Craig Shirley told the Washington Examiner recently that Jeb Bush is the latest in a line of Bushes who oppose Reaganism. Radio host Mark Levin has dismissed Florida's former governor as "a very good moderate Democrat," while pioneering conservative activist Richard Viguerie for …
WASHINGTON — On the night he won the Pinellas County special election that captured national attention, David Jolly got a call from House Speaker John Boehner.
Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi announced late Friday that the Sunshine State would join a federal lawsuit to block President Barack Obama's executive action sparing as many as 5 million undocumented immigrants from deportation.
CAPE CANAVERAL — NASA's new Orion spacecraft made a "bull's-eye" splashdown in the Pacific on Friday following a dramatic test flight that took it to a zenith of 3,604 miles and ushered in a new era of human exploration aiming for Mars.
![In this image provided by NASA after splashdown of the Orion module, U.S. Navy crews from the USS Anchorage begin recovering the parachutes while other teams begin safing the spacecraft as it floats in the Pacific Ocean, Friday, Dec. 5, 2014. [NASA via AP]](https://web.archive.org/web/20141209032611im_/http://www.tampabay.com/resources/images/dti/2014/12/0434819200_14327405.jpg)
TALLAHASSEE — Republican Gov. Rick Scott made Ebola preparedness a top priority in October during the final weeks of his re-election campaign — so much so that he appeared on live television to tout his plans for keeping Floridians safe.
