Government and politics

Gov. Rick Scott signed 20 bills into law Wednesday, including a long-discussed repeal of the state's rarely enforced ban on unmarried men and women living together.

  Two of the Marion County deputies  involved in August 2014 beating of Derrick Price testified yesterday that they did not feel as if they were in danger or believe that Price had a firearm in his possession as they were arresting him. On top of that the deputies, Trevor Fitzgerald and Adam …

The allegations center on a hedge fund he started when he was outside Congress and legal work done by others, for which Grayson may have been paid while he was in office.

Part of the education process will be to ensure voters know the proposal on the August primary ballot isn't tied to the state's more controversial solar-energy amendment.

Highlighting what is expected to be one of the focuses of his tenure as Senate president, Sen. Joe Negron announced Monday he will take a four-day “listening tour” of state universities. Negron, R-Stuart, said he would visit each of Florida’s 12 public universities — literally traveling from Pensacola to Miami …

Marion County Center of Elections warns voters letters about their registration distributed by the Voters Participation Center may not be accurate.

Alachua County commissioners are considering a 13 percent budget increase — from $905,000 to $1.02 million — for the 2016-2017 fiscal year, which starts Oct. 1.

The Florida Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a constitutional amendment dealing with solar power can appear on November's ballot.

Supporters argue the lower pay rate was a legacy of an earlier era, when women held the overwhelming majority of supervisors' offices.

William Burney, a 62-year-old Keystone Heights resident, will begin serving April 7 in place of Commissioner Gavin Rollins.