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Florida House Democratic leaders want the IRS to review whether three tax-exempt groups properly handled Medicaid settlement money a grand jury called misappropriated; state officials have said no laws were broken.
USDA data show about 570,000 fewer Floridians on SNAP than a year ago, and a federal cost shift that took effect Oct. 1 puts more of the program's bill on the state.
Laws effective Oct. 1 add felonies for rental fraud and animal cruelty involving minors, let cities raise animal-control fines, and raise the crash-reporting threshold to $2,000.
Florida has begun issuing newly designed driver licenses and state identification cards featuring enhanced anti-fraud safeguards, the state seal, and historical imagery spanning from St. Augustine to the Space Coast.
State transportation officials detailed ongoing expansions across the 320-mile Turnpike mainline alongside new funding for commercial truck parking and service plaza renovations.
The new rate has more purchasing power than Florida’s 2006 minimum. A separate Seminole County basic-needs estimate shows why many households would still need more.
State leaders have approved over $72.6 million in land conservation agreements to protect working agricultural acreage and critical ecological corridors across Florida.
Florida correctional authorities prepared Tuesday to execute Curtis Wilkie Beasley, 77, for the 1995 murder of Carolyn Monfort in Polk County.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier filed for a temporary court injunction against OpenAI on Monday, seeking to halt new model development absent third-party safeguards and bar minors from accessing ChatGPT.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier filed an antitrust lawsuit accusing major drug manufacturers and pharmacy benefit managers of conspiring to raise insulin costs.
A Florida State University expert explains how the current El Niño pattern is contributing to the lack of hurricanes in the Atlantic this year.
Gov. Ron DeSantis and Attorney General James Uthmeier announced 20 voter-fraud arrests in Palm Beach County; critics questioned the timing 40 days before the midterms.
State leaders say Florida's property insurance crisis is resolved, but most policyholders in a new statewide poll report rising costs and dropped policies.
A series of state statutes covering criminal offenses, vehicle regulations, and animal welfare provisions become active on October 1.
