Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum is suing to stop the federal government from approving an agreement between Gov. Charlie Crist and the Seminole Tribe that will allow expanded gambling at Indian casinos. ...more

December 21, 2007

Owners of hybrid cars will get a break on parking fees in Miami Beach, but Tampa isn't sold on trying the idea here. ...more

December 17, 2007

The number of states refusing federal money for "abstinence-only" sex education programs jumped sharply in the past year as evidence mounted that the approach is ineffective. ...more

December 16, 2007

More than 200 years after they were written, huge portions of the papers of America's founding fathers are still decades away from being published, prompting a distinguished group of scholars and federal officials to pressure Congress to speed the process along. ...more

December 15, 2007

Nearly extinct last century, grizzly bears are back in a big way in the northern Rockies - rising in numbers, pushing into new territories and mauling hunters who stumble across them in the wild. ...more

December 7, 2007

A regional hurricane shelter planned for Denton Avenue could be delayed after federal officials' demand it be strengthened to withstand 200 mph winds and tornadoes, county officials said last week. ...more

December 3, 2007

An Amtrak train was going about 25 mph over the speed limit moments before it hit a stationary freight train on the city's South Side, injuring dozens of people, federal officials said Sunday. ...more

December 3, 2007

For rancher Randy Petrich, the removal of gray wolves from the endangered species list, a move that would open up the animals to hunting in the Northern Rockies for the first time in decades, couldn't come soon enough. ...more

November 24, 2007

Former County Commissioner Peter Altman sought to help dozens of coastal homeowners in 2003 when the Federal Emergency Management Agency said they may have illegally expanded their homes in flood zones. ...more

November 24, 2007

More than 1 million cases of chlamydia were reported in the United States last year - the most ever reported for a sexually transmitted disease, federal health officials said Tuesday. ...more

November 14, 2007