(AP) - More than 160 current and former employees and family members who say they were exposed to toxins at a federal prison's electronics recycling ... Marianna Federal Correctional Institution in the Florida Panhandle. Two lawsuits filed last month ...

Attorney Charlotte Combs Stone advises the first thing to consider is to prepare a will. And it doesn't have to be expensive, added Stone, of the law firm of Stone & Walder, which has offices in Sebring ... In Florida, an item titled a "Separate ...

A southwest Florida man has been charged with first-degree murder ... CBS Affiliate WINK reports Reyes is being held without bond at the Charlotte County Jail.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Florida man faces more than six years in prison after pleading guilty to running an Internet-based Ponzi scheme that prosecutors say ripped off thousands of investors. Thomas A. Bowdoin Jr., of Quincy, pleaded guilty to ...

There are about 5,651 non-citizen inmates in Florida. James Evans, from Greece, is one of them. He's serving a 15 year sentence for manslaughter at Charlotte County's Correctional Institute. So is Rene Gonzalez, who is from Cuba. He's in prison ...

Florida’s top Congressional Democrats broke with President ... “An American citizen is locked up in a Cuban jail now for trying to provide internet access to Cubans, and in the last few months since Pope Benedict’s visit, Cubans have ...

The influx of campaign cash in the first presidential campaign since the 2010 Citizens United ruling by the Supreme Court, which helped create ... running in Colorado, Florida, North Carolina, Iowa, Nevada, Ohio and Virginia.

MIAMI A South Florida college student has pleaded guilty in Miami federal ... He faces a maximum five-year prison sentence but likely would get far less under sentencing guidelines. Federal prosecutors say Serrapio posted threats on Facebook ...

CHARLOTTE — A Florida driver was jailed after he tried to elude state police during a short chase in Charlotte. Octavian Graur, 25, of Palm Springs Garden, Fla., was arrested on charges of negligent operation and attempting to elude police on U.S. 7 Saturday night, Vermont State Police said.

But no one not pundits, attorneys or the public is saying we're ... be able to participate in a domestic partnership registry in Volusia County. HAZING DEATH The president of Florida A&M is speaking to an alumni group in Charlotte just days ...

About 20 members of the Florida division of the SEIU Healthcare Workers ... “I want the executives to know that I am concerned,” said Veronica Pierre, 71, of Port Charlotte, as she waved signs. “Profit is not all-important.

The conservative group that helped spread Florida's Stand Your Ground gun law across the country holds a closed-door issues conference in Charlotte on Friday. On its agenda is legislation that would prevent a state's attorney general from ...

WASHINGTON A federal appeals court on Friday upheld a key provision of the Voting ... Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas and Virginia. It also covers certain counties in California, Florida, New York, North Carolina and South Dakota ...