Updated: 3:10 PM Gov. Rick Scott continued to argue against setting up exchanges to help people find health insurance, saying they won't make health coverage cheaper and may not give people coverage they want.

Posted: 11:04 AM An investigation into the filing of qualifying papers for three Supreme Court justices has been closed, but the controversy about the trio's place on this fall's ballot is likely to continue.

Updated: 6:46 PM A libertarian legal group said that it would appeal a ruling that let stand many of the state's regulations on groups of individuals who campaign for or against ballot initiatives.

Posted: 10:26 AM A provision in a 2008 law restricting the ability of public insurance adjusters to contact homeowners immediately after a storm was struck down Thursday by a unanimous Florida Supreme Court.

Updated: 8:12 AM A candidate for the city commission says Mayor John Marks should resign, effective immediately.

Posted: 1:57 PM State Representative Leonard Bembry sent a letter to the Governor requesting the Governor’s help in securing emergency funds from FEMA, upon the completion of FEMA’s assessment.

Posted: 2:26 PM Hundreds of thousands of Florida ex-felons who have completed their sentences still can't vote, a prohibition that is hindering their re-entry into society, a group of voting rights advocates said as they urged Congress to step in.

Posted: 1:54 PM With little more than a month to go before Senate primaries in a handful of key districts across the state, the fundraising organizations tied to different sides of a Republican leadership battle are offering a few scant hints about which side might be able to count on which lawmakers for support.

Updated: 12:40 PM Former Florida House Republican Leader Jim Tillman has died at the age of 77.

Updated: 10:09 AM Continuing a national media blitz against last week's U.S. Supreme Court decision on the Affordable Care Act, Gov. Rick Scott fielded some penetrating questions from radio hosts about statements he's made since the high court ruled.

Posted: 10:44 AM With Gov. Rick Scott vowing that Florida won't expand its health care system for the poor because it will hurt the state's effort to create jobs, his opponents and other advocates charged that the opposite might be true.

Posted: 10:09 AM Saying it was based on anecdotal information and unfounded conjecture, a federal judge has barred enforcement of a 2011 state law that restricted doctors from asking patients about guns in their houses.

Posted: 9:51 AM Sen. Arthenia Joyner and a pair of voting-rights organizations have filed an administrative challenge to the state's decision to push ahead with a new elections law in 62 of Florida's 67 counties.

Posted: 9:22 AM The battle in a traditional minority access state Senate district pits a family heir apparent against former colleagues including a prominent white candidate from the Florida Keys who is hoping a split vote will work in his favor.

Posted: 9:17 AM Florida will opt out of spending about $2 billion more to expand Medicaid, and won't build insurance exchanges, another optional part of the federal health care law, Gov. Rick Scott's office said.

Updated: 8:17 AM The constitutional win for President Barack Obama and Democrats on health care overhaul is reopening political cuts within the party over the unpopular law.

Updated: 11:55 AM McCollum came up just short this week when the U.S. Supreme Court narrowly rejected his argument that the nation's new health care law was unconstitutional.

Posted: 11:39 AM Business groups and health care providers were quick to express concern and outright disappointment Thursday as the U.S. Supreme Court upheld major portions of the federal health care package, known by opponents as Obamacare.

Posted: 11:24 AM While calling for more training, some rules changes involving trial procedure and recording of certain statements, the majority of recommendations from a court panel studying wrongful convictions boil down to one thing: more money.

Updated: 8:21 PM While the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Congress was within its taxing power when it required Americans to buy health insurance, the sharply divided court also said that if Florida and other states don't want to dramatically expand Medicaid, there's not much Washington can do about it.

Posted: 9:25 AM The state and the opponents of a suspended voter registration law are moving toward a settlement in a lawsuit over the new rules, both sides said Thursday, even as a group of voters is trying to brush aside the state's legal strategy and pursue an appeal.

Updated: 2:34 PM Florida was the instigator of the lawsuit upheld at the U-S Supreme Court on the Affordable Healthcare Act this morning. Minutes after the court's decision was released, Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi said she was shocked by the ruling.

Posted: 8:34 AM Gov. Rick Scott said that if the Supreme Court doesn't throw out the federal health care law this week then the effort to repeal needs to start again, for economic reasons.

Posted: 11:04 AM City Manager Anita Favors Thompson releases her recommended $686 million fiscal year 2013 operating budget for review by the Tallahassee City Commission. The proposed budget represents a $24.7 million decrease from the current year budget, due primarily to a decrease in fuel expenses for City utilities

Posted: 10:31 AM Gov. Rick Scott and the Legislature's Office of Economic and Demographic Research see the state's unemployment rate in different terms.