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TALLAHASSEE (Florida News Network, Alan McBride) -- The Florida Department of Health says infant mortality rates have reached...
TALLAHASSEE (AP) -- Florida Democratic leaders want Republican Gov. Rick Scott to veto the state budget or call a special ses...
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a surprise twist to the decade-plus effort to ease access to morning-after pills, the government i...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Americans spent more in March and their income grew, the latest indication that consumers are shrugging of...
GAINESVILLE -- Miranda Martin was sentenced to three life terms by Circuit Court Judge Mark Moseley for her part in the Janua...
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — The Florida parents charged with kidnapping their boys after losing custody and fleeing to Cuba by s...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama sent Congress a $3.8 trillion spending blueprint on Wednesday that strives...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's proposed budget will call for reductions in the growth of Social Securit...
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Gov. Dannel P. Malloy signed a wide-ranging bill that includes sweeping new restrictions on weap...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Millions of people who take advantage of government subsidies to help buy health insurance next year ...
TALLAHASSEE, FLA. (Florida News Network)-- The budget committee in the Florida Senate voted this week to reduce your motor ve...
NOGALES, Ariz. (AP) — A bipartisan group of senators crafting a sweeping immigration bill vowed Wednesday that they wou...
WASHINGTON (AP) — In the second of back-to-back gay marriage cases, the Supreme Court turned Wednesday to a constitutio...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is suggesting it could find a way out of the case over California's ban on same...
The Universtity of Florida Board of Trustees voted unanimously to approve a health insurance mandate for future students. Thi...
WASHINGTON, DC (ABC NEWS) -- House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan, the former Republican vice presidential nominee, took charge at...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Rick Scott says he has no knowledge that former Lt. Jennifer Carroll has broken t...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A Senate committee has essentially killed Gov. Rick Scott's plan to expand Medicaid covera...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The senior Homeland Security Department official in charge of arresting and deporting illegal immigra...
C. Everett Koop, who raised the profile of the surgeon general by riveting America's attention on the then-emerging disea...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Gov. Rick Scott announced plans Wednesday to expand Medicaid coverage to roughly 900,000 more ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is downplaying its draft immigration proposal as merely a backup plan if lawmakers do...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House voted Friday to extend a pay freeze for federal workers, already in effect for more than tw...
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker John Boehner said Wednesday it's unlikely the Republican-controlled House and Democ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama set up high-stakes clashes with Republicans over guns, immigration, taxes and ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama did some cherry-picking Tuesday night in defense of his record on jobs and lai...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans intend to cast President Barack Obama's second-term agenda as more "big governme...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Marco Rubio is taking center stage as Republicans search for a new leader.In the nearly 100 days sinc...
By Alan McBride (FLORIDA NEWS NETWORK)TALLAHASSEE, FLA. -- Attorney General Pam Bondi is urging Floridians to use caution whe...
by Rick Flagg and Alan McBride (FLORIDA NEWS NETWORK)TALLAHASSEE, FLA. -- They killed her bill in committee, but state Repres...
ATLANTA (AP) — A 14-year-old student was wounded in a shooting at a middle school Thursday, and a suspect was taken int...
According to Ocala Police spokesperson Angy Scroble, “The child has been located, unharmed, in the care of a grandparen...
Ocala Police are looking for help in the search for Robert Patrick Hagerty. The boy was last seen in Ocala, and investigators...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Some families could get priced out of health insurance due to what's being called a glitch in Pre...
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Florida's overall consumer confidence level is little changed in January from the previous...
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Declaring "now is the time" to fix broken immigration laws, President Barack Obama on Tuesda...
NEW YORK (AP) — Facing diverse and ceaseless protests, the Boy Scouts of America is signaling its readiness to end the ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Seeking swift action on immigration, President Barack Obama on Tuesday will try to rally public suppo...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan group of leading senators has reached agreement on the principles for a sweeping overhau...
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Two senators at the center of negotiations over comprehensive immigration reform, Sen. John McCain, R-A...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Democrat who's introduced an assault weapon ban acknowledges the measure faces an "uphil...
WASHINGTON (AP) — In an earlier era, a move like the one engineered by House GOP leaders to pass a "no budget, no ...
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A shelter for pregnant women and single mothers and their children is closing after 30 years i...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Gov. Rick Scott is seeking a pay raise for Florida's teachers after spearheading a success...
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republican leaders Friday offered President Barack Obama a three-month reprieve to a looming, m...
TALLAHASSEE (AP) -- The Florida Supreme Court has upheld a law requiring public employees to contribute 3 percent of their pa...
REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. January 14, 2013 (AP) -- Oracle says it has released a fix for the flaw in its Java software that rais...
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — If there's any soul-searching among top television executives about onscreen violence contr...
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — If there's any soul-searching among top television executives about onscreen violence contr...
WASHINGTON January 12, 2013 (AP) -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is advising people to temporarily disable the Ja...
Jordan Fabian (ABC NEWS) AUSTIN, Texas -- A key Republican senator said Thursday that he wants to demonstrate that the U.S.-M...
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Rick Scott says he wants to know what the real numbers are when it comes to p...
President Obama today will name his current chief of staff, Jack Lew, to serve as the nation’s next treasury secretary,...
TACOMA, Wash. January 10, 2013 (AP) -- Louise Bundy, who was a staunch defender of her serial killer son, Ted Bundy, before h...
By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated PressDAYTONA BEACH (AP) -- There is no doubt that Casey Anthony lied to detectives when she told...
WASHINGTON, DC (ABC News) -- The pushback against Chuck Hagel, President Obama’s new nominee for secretary of Defense, ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Both sides are saying it was a productive meeting after Florida Gov. Rick Scott sat down with the Oba...
By Laura C. Morel,Tampa Bay Times Staff Writer (lmorel@tampabay.com)It was startling news for a state that gains about 3 mill...
By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, The Associated PressInjecting a rare shot of bipartisanship in the nation's contentious healt...
While Congress has yet to discuss spending cuts to defense and domestic programs, they have drawn the line on tax increases a...
HONOLULU (AP) — President Barack Obama has signed the bill that boosts taxes on the wealthiest Americans, while preserv...
By DEVIN DWYER, JOHN PARKINSON and SUNLEN MILLER/ABC NEWS -- The Republican-dominated House of Representatives has approved a...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has passed legislation to block the impact of across-the-board tax increases and spending ...
By COLLEEN CURRY and SARAH PARNASS / ABC NEWSThe National Rifle Association stood its ground today in arguing that the answer...
By Colleen Curry ABC NEWSDec 18, 2012 5:20pmThe National Rifle Association has broken its silence on the mass school shooting...
By ARLETTE SAENZ / ABC NEWSDec. 18, 2012Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder today vetoed a bill that would have invalidated "gun f...
By ALYSSA NEWCOMB/ABC NEWSPresident Obama will visit Newtown, Conn. today to meet with the grieving families and thank the fi...
By RICHARD ESPOSITO, CANDACE SMITH, MATTHEW MOSK and CHRISTINA NG / ABC NEWSThe FBI is in at least three states interviewing ...
By RICHARD ESPOSITO, CANDACE SMITH and CHRISTINA NG / ABC NEWSA heavily armed man invaded a Newtown, Conn., elementary school...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A law enforcement official says the attacker in the Connecticut school shootings is a 20-year-old man...
NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — A shooting at a Connecticut elementary school Friday left 27 people dead, including 18 children, ...
from ABC NewsAs the clock ticks toward a tax hike on all Americans in 20 days, President Obama predicted Republicans would jo...
TALLAHASSEE (AP) — Florida education officials are pleased with the first vocabulary test results from the National Ass...
Elizabeth Hartfield/ABC NEWSDec. 5, 2012How does one come up with $4 trillion in revenue and spending cuts?That's the...
By ARLETTE SAENZ and MICHAEL FALCONE/ABC NEWSDec. 5, 2012WASHINGTON -- Hardly a month has passed since the end of presidentia...
By Jonathan Karl/ABC NEWSDec. 3, 2012Republicans are seriously considering a Doomsday Plan if fiscal cliff talks collapse ent...
PRISON PRIVATIZATIONJudge hears Fla. prison privatization challengeTALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A judge says he expects to ...
MIAMI (AP) — Florida health advocates are urging the federal government to run the state health exchange, saying Florid...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A judge says he expects to rule quickly on another challenge to plans for privatizing health c...
from ABC NewsFormer Senate Republican Leader and presidential nominee Bob Dole has been hospitalized at Walter Reed Army Medi...
from ABC NewsIt isn't taking long for memories of the 2012 election to fade as Washington now fixates on both a scandal a...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama, laying down his marker for grueling budget and tax negotiations, said Friday ...
By RUSSELL GOLDMAN/ABC NEWSNov. 7, 2012The last ballots are being counted here in Florida, but a re-elected President Obama i...
By RUSSELL GOLDMAN/ABC NEWSNov. 6, 2012President Obama won a second term tonight as ABC News projects he will be re-elected, ...
from ABC NewsThere are 435 seats in the House of Representatives, and here is a look at 25 of the top match-ups worth watchin...
Mitt Romney has matched Barack Obama on the question of who’s presented a clearer economic plan, a measure on which the...
By Gary Langer/ABC NEWSMitt Romney has advanced to a slight lead over Barack Obama in trust to handle the economy, and Obama ...
By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER Associated PressWASHINGTON October 16, 2012 (AP)More than 56 million Americans on Social Security will ...
By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics WriterWASHINGTON October 12, 2012 (AP)The federal budget deficit has topped $1 trillion...
from ABC NewsPresident Obama appealed to Latino voters for a second term at a Univision-sponsored event today, and blamed Rep...
from ABC NewsMitt Romney sought to repair the damage from his "47 percent" remarks, saying here today he is concern...
from ABC NewsMitt Romney raised some eyebrows today when he said, "I'm not getting rid of all of healthcare reform.&...
from ABC NewsTeenagers lighting joints may end up less bright, according to newresearch released Monday.In a study of more th...
from ABC NewsThe White House is pointing the finger at Republicans in Congress after the Congressional Budget Office warned t...
from ABC NewsMitt Romney took another crack at resetting the Medicare debate today, calling an impromptu press conference on ...
from ABC NewsPresident Obama has been known to quibble with his vice president for upstaging him on matters of policy or comm...
from ABC NewsThe CEO and founder of Papa John's pizza wants investors to know that when the president's health care l...
from ABC NewsTrailing rival Mitt Romney in a new Colorado poll, President Obama today kicked off a two-day swing through the ...
from ABC NewsI’m rubber, you’re glue. Welcome to the 2012 presidential campaign, aka ‘Romney Hood‘ vs...
from ABC NewsUnveiling a new zinger against his opponent, President Obama tonight said Mitt Romney’s tax plan amounts t...
from ABC NewsA new provision of the Affordable Care Act — called the Medical Loss Ratio, or the “80/20″ pro...
(AP/Gainesville) -- An investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials resulted in a major discovery this...
from ABC NewsJust hours after the Senate voted to extend tax cuts for the middle class, President Obama accused House Republi...
from ABC NewsFlorida Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll apologized Thursday for offending lesbians when she said black women who engag...
from ABC NewsAn Arizona sheriff known nationally for his hardline stance on illegal immigration is expected to take the witne...
from ABC NewsTwo men became the first same-sex couple to marry on a military base when they held their wedding ceremony last ...
from ABC NewsPresident Obama warned a Florida rally today against what he predicted would be a flood of negative ads from Rep...
from ABC NewsThe race for the White House remains a dead heat, according to a new CBS News/New York Times poll, despite sever...
The Alachua County Commission has voted to keep the current tax rate at 8.6 mills. That will mean about $3.2 million less...
Alachua County schools will set up an anonymous "bullying hotline" by the time school begins again in the fall. Stu...
from ABC NewsThe White House hit back hard late Tuesday, criticizing a study by accounting firm Ernst and Young that charged ...
from ABC NewsThe Republican governor of Texas today welcomed President Obama to the Lone Star State by asking him to distance...
In Alachua County , 26 year old David Ray Snyder has admitted to molesting a five year old girl two years ago. However he den...
from ABC NewsThe Food and Drug Adminstration today announced the approval of the first drug for use in people who are not inf...
UF President Bernie Machen has told trustees that he will need to make up to $4 million in additional budget cuts. He sai...
Alcohol,not marijuana, is the gateway drug that leads adolescents down the path toward more serious substances. That's th...
39 year old Arthur Leon Tyson is accused of the felony sexual abuse charge while her mother was away in early June. The mothe...
President Obama said Monday he wants Congress to extend tax cuts for families earning under $250,000 annually but let the...
Governor Rick Scott claims that the health care overhaul will cost Florida taxpayers $1.9 billion dollars a year but Asso...
By ABC News/MATT NEGRIN (@MattNegrin) AND ARIANE DE VOGUE (@Arianedevogue)June 28, 2012In a landmark ruling with wide-ranging...
Vanguard High School in Marion County will be allowed a student-run Gay-Straight Alliance. Tuesday the Marion County School B...
Vanguard High School in Marion County will be allowed a student-run Gay-Straight Alliance. Tuesday the Marion County School B...
The Alachua County Health Department is warning about displaced snakes,insects and other wildlife as well as bacteria. Fish a...
A convicted sex offender will spend the rest of his life in prison. 66 year old Richard Flatt had turned down a 30 year plea ...
Alachua County commissioners say they will either keep property tax rates at the current level or raise them so the same amou...
The City of High Springs is looking at a $60-70 thousand dollar decrease in ad valorm taxes this year. City officials are...
The City Of Newberry is projecting a loss of tax revenues of $180 thousand dollars. That's because of a recent proper...
from ABC NewsIn a battle viewed largely as a barometer for November's showdown between President Obama and Republican cha...
Florida, as well as Texas and Nevada, are the best states for business according to a New York tax consultant firm that surve...
All this week on GetMyPerks, we're featuring your favorite downtown businesses as we encourage you to "Dine Downtown...
Gainesville Police say two children ran way from home to get away from their abusive mother. The two kids plus a third child ...
The ACLU is suing Marion County Superintendent of Schools Jim Yancey as well as the Alachua County School Board. They say Yan...
68 year old Frederick Caswll , who lives in S.W. Alachua County for part of the year, is under arrest for distributing and po...
A Marion Oaks man will spend 15 years in prison for sex trafficking. 23 year old John Dillinger Morgan also pleaded guilty to...
The former Rutgers University student convicted of bias intimidation for using a webcam to spy on his gay roommate having sex...
44 year old Stanley Romero Johnson of Lake City faces five counts of possession of child pornography. He's been working f...
from ABC NewsA New York Times/CBS News poll released Monday night shows the possible political perils of President Obama'...
from ABC NewsJust days after affirming his support for same-sex marriage, President Obama today declined to say whether he wo...
from ABC NewsANALYSISIn the 2012 edition of the culture wars, a new side is starting on offense.President Obama’s move ...
That financial help is coing to an end because Florida is being cut off from government help because unemployment in Florida ...
Crime is down .1 percent from 2010. The number of violent crimes was down 3.7 %. and domestic violence offenses fell 1.5 %. B...
from ABC NewsThe top congressional leadership was out in full force today as leaders from both political parties in both cham...
from ABC NewsWith Gov. Jan Brewer sitting in the audience, the Supreme Court today heard the Obama administration’s cha...
from ABC NewsSocial Security’s retirement and disability programs have enough funds to cover the next 20 years, but tha...
from ABC NewsJim Shee, a U.S. citizen of Spanish and Chinese ancestry, says he began to understand the impact of Arizona'...
Two Alachua County dentists are behind a political action committee to get signatures for a voters' referendum in Novembe...
Former Marion County deputy Nicholas Ragosta has been sentenced to 15 years in prison and four years probation for conspiring...
from ABC NewsBy a mostly party-line vote, the House of Representatives approved Paul Ryan’s “Path to Prosperity&r...
Twenty year old Darius Phillips is back in custody after escaping from authorities while handcuffed yesterday. Phillips was a...
from ABC NewsSenators on both sides of the aisle sounded off today afterhearingarguments before the Supreme Courton the const...
from ABC NewsNumber of Supreme Court Justices: 9.Hours of oral arguments planned: 6.Full impact the court's ruling could ...
from ABC NewsTwo years ago Friday, President Obama signed what has been called the most significant legislative achievement o...
The teenager says she met 36 year old Shay Ward Thomsen at church and had babysat for him in the past two weeks. She claims h...
Operation Blue Forest was named after the Ocala National Forest and the street name for oxycodone. It's estimated almost ...
Florida's $70 billion dollar state budget is expected to be approved Friday and it includes 3.6 % more funding for sc...
Marion County Sheriff's Office have found five more victims related to a child sex abuse case. The co-leader of a local B...
from ABC NewsOfficials say students were shot at a northeastern Ohio high school and a suspect is in custody.Civil deputy Eri...
from FOX NewsPresident Obama pressed with confidence about his future at the White House saying, "I've got another f...
A 25 year old Ocala man has admitted molesting several young boys,including one he met through the Cub Scouts. George Robert ...
from CNNA bipartisan agreement to extend the payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits while avoiding a fee cut for Medicare ...
Two Gainesville girls have left Gainesville High School after being accused of posting a racist video on the internet. Eight ...
from FOX NewsBipartisan negotiators hammered out a tentative deal Tuesday to extend the payroll tax cut for the rest of the y...
A female farmworker is dead and another has been taken to the hospital after an explosion at a horse farm on County Road 326 ...
An Alachua grand jury has indicted Austin Jones and Maranda Martin for the death of Paul Quandt. They're accused of attac...
26 year old Jarred Harrell will spend the rest of his life in prison for the abduction and killing of seven year old Somer Th...
from ABC NewsPresident Barack Obama tonight presented an argument for his presidency and a second term with a State of the Un...
The disabled veteran brutally attacked at his Blues Creek home off N.W. 43rd Street in Gainesville January 9th has died. Quan...
The Republican-controlled Florida Senate has passed a plan to redistrict the 40-member chamber. All but one Republican voted ...
Maranda Martin of Gainesville has been arrested for the brutal attack on 78 year old Paul Quandt. She used to work as a home ...
78 year old Paul Quandt is in a coma at last report and Austin Jones of Ft. Whjte, the man accused of attacking him is in cri...
from ABCNewsWith just nine days before a payroll tax break for 160 million Americans expires, President Obama today will ste...
Florida had the nation's third largest population growth over the past year at 256 thousand new residents. Only Texas and Cal...
From CNNWashington (CNN) -- The gridlock and partisanship that threatens to ruin Christmas in Washington could be an electio...
From CNNMoneyNEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- If Congress fails to pass an extension of the payroll tax holiday, it would put a seriou...
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A little politics, a little pop-culture and a lot of fun!
A little politics, a little pop-culture and a lot of fun!
A little politics, a little pop-culture and a lot of fun!
