A lawyer who let a female client work off her fee through sex has been disbarred by the Florida Supreme Court. The justices Thursday cited the man’s guilty plea to solicitation to prostitution as one of several instances of professional misconduct.

A federal court has ruled that Florida’s lawsuit against the former chief executive of Countrywide Financial Corp. should be tried in state court.

Having to pay more for Honey Buns and other prison snack shop items has made inmates at Florida prisons and their families upset.

Echoing last year’s “Drill, baby, drill” Republican election slogan, a GOP-dominated House panel voted Tuesday to allow oil and natural gas exploration and production in Florida waters up to 10 miles into the Gulf of Mexico.

It was bad enough when Matthew Norville rear-ended another driver, crushing the front end of his own car.

A grand jury has indicted Florida’s former House speaker on a third-degree felony charge of official misconduct.

The TV commercials make it sound easy: Gather your unwanted gold jewelry, mail it away and get cash in return. But police say thieves also see the ads and are exploiting mail-in jewelry businesses as an easy way to sell stolen goods.

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush loved his Blackberry so much he had it painted into his official state portrait, but a new report shows the state’s love affair with wireless devices may have gotten out of hand.

President Barack Obama plans to name Florida’s state emergency director Craig Fugate to lead the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

A trendy pedicure that lets fish nibble dead skin from the feet has been nipped in the bud by Florida regulators.