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Hurricane Sandy, which is threatening millions on the East Coast with flooding and high winds, has even conspired to disrupt California politics....

Before he was the Terminator, he was Conan the Barbarian. Now, some 30 years after his screen breakthrough in “Conan ......

TALLAHASSEE — Incoming Senate President Don Gaetz put out a nearly 1,000-word statement tonight on the five GOP candidates that emerged from primaries — some of them hard-fought and dirty ones — in which he hailed the victors … and...

TALLAHASSEE — Looks like Aaron Bean in Jacksonville and Tom Lee in Tampa are headed for victories in two Republican primaries that have drawn millions of dollars from party coffers and the political war chests of the next two Senate presidents,...

State officials were warned about a hidden surplus at the parks department earlier this year, according to a court filing from a former employee. Cheryl Taylor, who worked at the parks department as a budget officer until January 2011, filed......

California workplace safety regulators said they have opened an investigation into a patient assault of a Napa State Hospital psychiatric technician....

There was finally resolution this week to one of California's deadliest wildfires. A San Bernardino man was convicted of murder and arson for his role in sparking the 2003 Old fire, which led to the deaths of five people, destroyed......

MEXICO CITY -- Mexico this week quietly signed the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or ACTA, a controversial multinational treaty that sponsors say protects intellectual property but opponents call an assault on privacy and freedom of expression....

The Library of Congress' new exhibition, Books That Shaped America, includes works by many notable American authors, but there is a gaping hole: Edgar Allen Poe. The list include no-brainers: classics from such greats as Herman Melville, Louisa May...

Walt Disney World is taking sides in two of the most closely watched Republican state Senate primaries in Florida, according to updated election records, backing Reps. Jeff Brandes and Rachel Burgin. Brandes, R-St. Petersburg, is facing fellow St....

U.S. Rep. Connie Mack IV easily won the GOP U.S. Senate primary by nearly 40 points statewide and won outright majorities in 60 of Florida's 67 counties, though former U.S. Rep. Dave Weldon managed to carry majorities of the vote in two counties in his...

Two topics dominated conversations during the first day of play at the pro-am golf tournament in Aberdeen — the heat and a hole-in-one.    The 21st annual Western Printing Pro-Am Golf Tournament got underway on Friday at Moccasin Creek Country...