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Republican lawmakers have introduced proposals to allow the more than 1.7 million people with concealed-carry licenses to bring guns to places such as college and university campuses, airport terminals and government meetings.

Severe storms that hit the Southeast and Florida this weekend, claimed 18 lives, with over a dozen killed in Georgia Sunday.

Florida voters Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a constitutional amendment legalizing medical marijuana for patients with a broad swath of conditions.

A federal judge ordered a one-day extension in Florida’s voter registration deadline and seemed ready to consider a longer delay against the backdrops of the recovery from Hurricane Matthew and one of the most heated presidential races in decades. U.S. District Judge Mark Walker said the state should continue accepting …

An appeals court heard arguments Tuesday about whether Michael Dunn was acting in self-defense when he fatally shot teenager Jordan Davis in 2012 in the parking lot of a Jacksonville convenience store. Dunn's attorney has raised a series of issues in trying to overturn Dunn's first-degree murder conviction, most of which are focused on whether Dunn acted justifiably in self-defense.

The two-hour play, "The Ballad of Trayvon Martin," debuts Thursday in Philadelphia

This year, 48 dead turtles have washed ashore across the Gulf Coast. Officials are working to determine if the turtle deaths are linked to the 2010 BP Oil Spill.

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement and Attorney General Pam Bondi are warning Floridians about a new “super pill” in the state that contains deadly amounts of fentanyl now being mixed with other drugs. According to FDLE, counterfeit drugs have been found in which fentanyl is mixed with otherwise legal …

A total of 369 child deaths have been called in to the state abuse hotline so far in 2015. That means Florida is on track to have roughly as many child deaths this year as it did before passing a sweeping child-welfare reform law in 2014.