Duval County

McALLEN, Texas (AP) - Four Florida men died in a plane crash on rural ranch land in Duval County. Department of Public Safety spokesman Charles Ramirez on Tuesday identified the pilot of the twin-turboprop Beechcraft King Air as Paul Mazak II. The plane...

Other counties worry about impacts of Broward Supreme Court term limits ruling The impact of the recent Supreme Court ruling upholding Broward County's term limits for county commissioners is spreading beyond the 954 area code. The counties that had the...

More than 100 students at Memorial Middle School in Orlando arrive on campus an hour early most mornings for extra math and reading work. Fifteen full-time tutors work in Evans High's reading classes, providing extra help where students need it most....

TALLAHASSEE — Much as it has since the beginning, the legal mandate to preserve minority political districts is going to play a central role in the court fight over the Florida Legislature's once-a-decade redistricting process. The Florida Supreme...

State Attorney Angela Corey has tried more than 50 homicides. She's known for being tough on crime and an advocate for victims, and she has been credited with filling up her local jail. And she's connected to Florida's Republican Party. So it wasn't...

In 1988, voters expanded the Orange County Commission board from five to six members to create a more responsive body but also to give black voters a better shot at winning a seat. Two years later, Mable Butler became Orange's first black county...

The crowded Republican primary of the 6th congressional district — a new coastal district that runs from Daytona Beach north to the Duval County line — has picked up yet another candidate. And unlike the other three who've already announced &#...

Joe Lockavitch promises that in 30 minutes he can take the "worst kids in the building" — even high-school students still stumbling over simple texts — and teach them to read a passage full of words they didn't know half an hour earlier. "I...

The Duval County School Board voted unanimously to fire an elementary school speech therapist who told a judge that he used a school district laptop to visit sexually explicit adult websites and personal ads soliciting sex — all during school...

Craig Miller announced his congressional campaign has hired two professional fundraisers as the former Ruth's Chris CEO tries to establish himself as the leading candidate in CD 6, a new coastal district running from Volusia County to the Duval County...

From the White House: WASHINGTON, DC – On Thursday, December 8, Vice President Biden and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan will travel to Neptune Beach, Florida to discuss college affordability. The Vice President’s remarks at Duncan U....

The campaign of Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich officially announced that former Orange County Mayor Rich Crotty and former Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum, plus former state health care administrator Alan Levine, would lead his...