University of South Florida

Winter Park wide receiver Dvario Montgomery has committed to the University of South Florida, according to Winter Park coaches. USF coach Skip Holtz is on a campus visit today and Montgomery told Winter Park coach Tim Shifflet of his intentions....

Richard Gonzmart, a fourth generation family member of Florida’s oldest restaurant, The Columbia, has created a private label spirits line honoring first and second generation family members of the 106-year-old Columbia as well as a tequila called...

TALLAHASSEE –  A day after the Senate passed its legislative and congressional redistricting plans, the chamber is taking it easy today. Senate President Mike Haridopolos scrapped Wednesday's slated floor time (in case Democrats wanted to debate the...

TALLAHASSEE – The Florida House passed a $69.2 billion spending plan Thursday that boosts funding for classrooms, but also cuts payments to hospitals, steers school construction dollars to charters, and relies on higher tuition rates for college...

TALLAHASSEE — Senate Budget Chairman J.D. Alexander and University of South Florida President Judy Genshaft met for an hour Monday to resolve their public feud over the fate of a polytechnic campus in Lakeland. The net result: Genshaft said it was...

Florida House and Senate leaders today reached a deal to make it easier — financially easier, at least — for a campus of the University of South Florida to transition into an independent university. The plan calls for USF Polytechnic,...

Gov. Rick Scott still has not decided whether he will sign a bill that would allow a satellite campus of University of South Florida, located in Tampa, to become an independent university. An article in today's Tampa Bay Times  features an interview...

Gov. Rick Scott met this morning with the Orlando Sentinel's editorial board and answered a wide assortment of questions about legislative measures, state funding, economic development and public education. Two questions he did not have answers for,...

A long-neglected mansion on the city's west side has been restored to its 19th-century grandeur so that it can provide a home and hope for homeless women. Dozens of volunteers have adopted rooms in the 8,000-square-foot Victorian, built in 1893 by the...

Randy White had just buried a daughter, dead at 30 with a brain tumor. Now his other daughter had been diagnosed with growths in her abdomen. When doctors told White in 2009 that their conditions were likely caused by something in their environment,...

For schools reeling in the aftermath of a student's suicide, some mental health experts say that paying tribute to the teen with candlelight vigils, hallway locker memorials and all-school assemblies may do more harm than good. Though school officials...

Gov. Rick Scott has posted the salaries of employees at all of Florida's 11 public universities — a move some faculty leaders say is pointed at professors and meant to make universities appear wasteful. A spokesman for Scott said the online posting...