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The Leon County School Board will get an update on the district’s reopening plan at it’s 6 p.m. hearing tonight. School officials have been rolling out their proposal incrementally in recent weeks. Among the suggestions: face masks when social distancing cannot be maintained, a block schedule for middle and high schools, and daily temperature checks.

School districts across Florida are grappling with how to implement a new law adopted after the mass school shooting in Parkland. In the next academic...

President Donald Trump on Sunday denied reports that hundreds of migrants would be flown from the Mexican border to Florida and other areas in the U.S....

A bill involving the recital of the “Pledge of Allegiance” in schools has passed its first House Committee.

The House voted 73-45 Wednesday to approve on an industry backed bill that critics say will pave the way for fracking in Florida.

As of Friday, long-term care facilities were linked to about 35 percent of the 28,565 deaths of Floridians from COVID-19, according to a report released by the state Department of Health.

Three years after a mass shooting at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School led lawmakers to pass a major school-safety bill, an appeals court Thursday rejected a challenge to allowing armed “guardians” on campuses.

Tensions over changes to election laws escalated in the Capitol Monday as Republicans advanced major revisions to voting by mail and counting ballots. As Steve Bousquet reports, those changes drew sharp criticism from Democrats and election supervisors as well.

Chauvin told Judge Peter Cahill that he would exercise his Fifth Amendment right. Closing arguments are expected to begin on Monday.

Affidavits released by the Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office offer the most complete accounting so far of the shooting that killed 42-year-old cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.