Pam Bondi took office as Florida's first female attorney general in 2011. Epstein had gotten out of the Palm Beach County Jail two years earlier.

Citing a staffing shortage, Attorney General James Uthmeier is seeking a new way for out-of-state government lawyers to practice in Florida for up to three years without having to take The Florida

The Star of the Seas, which is the largest cruise ship in the world, will set sail in August.

A federal judge paused enforcement of a harsh anti-immigration law in April, citing the likelihood that a pending legal challenge would succeed — but Florida Highway Patrol officers continued to enforce the law and arrested at least 27 people in the weeks that followed, HuffPost has learned.

A family’s three Great Danes attacked a 5-year-old boy, leaving him with life-threatening injuries, Florida deputies said. Getty Images/iStockphoto A mom holding her bleeding 5-year-old son who had been mauled by the family’s three large dogs rushed to the home of a deputy in her neighborhood, Florida authorities said. It may have saved his life.

Tampa Bay airports warned Monday by Florida’s chief law enforcement officer to comply with a state law passed this year that bans weather modification are still untangling the new set of rules, officials said.

The heat index could get as high as 111 in South Florida, with the strongest heat expected along the southern Gulf Coast.

Florida's back-to-school sales tax holiday will be held Aug. 1-31 this year, a departure from the two-week holiday of prior years.