Updated: 2:46 PM Buoyed by a few big contributions, a political committee closely linked to Gov. Rick Scott collected $560,000 in May --- bringing its total this year to slightly more than $2.5 million, according to a list of donors on its website.

Updated: 7:23 PM Governor Rick Scott is asking small town leaders how he can help their economies. Scott visited five counties. Many small towns have the same concerns over Medicaid and job creation that big cities have.

Posted: 4:40 PM Gov. Nathan Deal has appointed Greg Griffin as the new state auditor effective July 1.

Updated: 7:31 PM The tradition of Florida candidates standing in line to personally file their qualifying papers is just a memory.

Updated: 12:12 AM The feds are telling the Florida Division of Elections to stop efforts to remove illegally registered voters from the voting roles.

Posted: 11:36 PM As FAMU reels from a hazing scandal, Florida's congressional delegation is pushing for legislation to deny student aid to perpetrators.

Posted: 9:19 AM Gov. Rick Scott has followed through on his vow to appeal a federal court ruling that blocked drug testing of state employees.

Updated: 12:08 AM Florida officials are now saying they may not be able to double-check whether 182,000 registered voters are U.S. citizens.

Updated: 5:23 PM Mitt Romney has clinched the Republican nomination for president with a win in the Texas primary.

Updated: 2:41 PM Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi is celebrating her upcoming wedding to Tampa ophthalmologist Greg Henderson in the Cayman Island this weekend with close friends and family.

Updated: 8:08 AM Governor Rick Scott was in Spain to drum up business for Florida. He returned Thursday, saying he'd had a positive meeting with the king.

Posted: 12:12 PM Eight months after a judge tossed out a controversial prison-privatization plan, attorneys will argue next week about the constitutionality of a state decision to contract with companies to provide inmate health care.

Updated: 12:24 AM Florida now has the nation's third-*largest prison system...With more than one-hundred-thousand inmates. That's roughly double the size it was 25 years ago, before tough-on-crime lawmakers passed a mandate that prisoners serve at least 85 percent of their sentence. Now, legislators are re-thinking that mandate, but they're having a tough time overcoming opposition from Governor Scott.

Posted: 1:53 PM As the Florida Department of Education tries to handle the fallout of the collapse in FCAT writing scores, the office of Gov. Rick Scott has been intimately involved in efforts to roll out the test scores, according to staff emails.

Updated: 1:39 PM Mitt Romney has gone from a six point deficit against President Obama in March to a 47-41 point lead. The poll also finds that if Romney were to pick Florida US Senator Marco Rubio as his running mate, the pick would add two points to Romney’s lead.

Posted: 11:15 AM Florida Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater announces the state agency, university and individual winners of the 2011 Loss Prevention Awards.

Updated: 6:51 PM Candidates are registering for elections and soon we'll know who is running for what.

Updated: 6:49 PM Deal says, "He's conservative enough for me".

Updated: 6:47 PM The NAACP has announced its support of same-sex marriages following a vote to recognize same-sex marriages as a civil right.

Updated: 9:15 AM Governor Rick Scott looking past 2012 election to 2014 re-election but Democrats see 2014 as an opportunity after losing the last four governor races.

Posted: 6:56 PM For freshman Sen. Marco Rubio, a rising GOP figure seen as a possible Mitt Romney running mate, there are questions about whether potential vulnerabilities in his personal and political background might hold him back.

Updated: 11:28 AM Governor Rick Scott is heading to Spain to promote business in Florida.

Updated: 5:24 PM State officials say Florida's unemployment rate dropped to 8.7 percent in April, but that was largely due to people leaving the labor force.

Updated: 11:14 PM A property dispute has three of Tallahassee's top leaders on a witness list in small claims court.

Posted: 4:57 PM Florida is calling on county election supervisors to remove more than 53,000 dead people from the state's voting rolls.