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A Florida woman accused of hiding her dead mother's body and collecting federal benefits for six years has pleaded guilty to a theft charge.

A Florida city is cleaning up with a new dress code that requires city workers to wear underwear and use deodorant.

Florida deep-sea explorers who raised an estimated $500 million treasure from the 200-year-old wreck of a Spanish galleon should ...

The federal government is exploring how to put Florida hurricane evacuees in foreclosed homes if a Katrina-like storm devastates ...

California, Florida, Nevada and Arizona account for about 46% of the foreclosure starts in the country, the Mortgage Bankers Assn. reports. California and three other states continued to take an outsize share of the blame for the foreclosure epidemic sweeping the nation.

Astronauts aboard the space shuttle Atlantis finally made it home after a voyage of more than 5 million miles.

Weather conditions forced NASA to wave off a landing attempt for space shuttle Atlantis scheduled for 9:16 a.m. ET Saturday at Florida's Kennedy Space Center, the space agency said.

The largest bank failure so far in 2009 is also notable because the failed bank's buyer is a consortium of private-equity firms. BankUnited, FSB, based in Coral Gables, Fla., was closed by the Office of Thrift Supervision on Thursday, and the Federal Insurance Deposit Corporation was appointed receiver.

An unidentified Florida teen says her school's yearbook has a photo of her inadvertently exposing her privates, as seen in this video grab. The girl says she didn't wear underwear to school that day.

Florida Gov. Crist said he will run for the Senate rather than seek a second term as the battleground state's chief executive.