ORLANDO, FL (AP) -- Republican leaders say Hispanic voters will play a crucial role in determining the next president and will be a key to which party will be in power well beyond November. 

TALLAHASSEE, FL (AP) -- Florida is joining other states in adding more safeguards to protect young Facebook users from sexual predators and cyberbullies. 

JACKSONVILLE, FL - The campaign tactics of State Attorney candidate Jay Plotkin are the target of legal action by a Fernandina Beach lawyer.  

TALLAHASSEE, FL (AP) -- Florida's revamped anti-smoking campaign is starting to move into high-gear.
 

TALLAHASSEE -- Al Crotzer officially received his financial compensation from the state for spending nearly a quarter of a century behind bars for a crime he didn't commit. 

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- Gov. Charlie Crist has signed a bill that gives a 9-year-old disabled girl $1.2 million for injuries she sustained due to the state's negligence. 

TALLAHASSEE, FL -- Would you take retirement money and still keep working with that company while receiving a separate paycheck?  

TALLAHASSEE, FL -- Legislation that passed in the 2008 regular session of the Florida Legislature, which ended Friday. 

TALLAHASSEE, FL -- Legislation that failed in the 2008 regular session of the Florida Legislature, which ended Friday. 

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TALLAHASSEE, FL (AP) -- Governor Charlie Crist is getting two songs to consider from the Legislature. 

TALLAHASSEE, FL (AP) -- The Legislature ended a bleak two-month session Friday in which little happened that wasn't overshadowed by the state's lack of money. One of the last things it did was send Gov. Charlie Crist an anemic budget -- the smallest the state has passed in three years. 

TALLAHASSEE, FL (AP) -- The governor now has the smallest budget in three years -- at 66 billion dollars. 

TALLAHASSEE -- The roughly $66 billion budget the Legislature passed includes less money for many state programs than they received last year because the overall budget is about $5 billion smaller. 

TALLAHASSEE, Fl (AP) -- The Florida House has amended a bill that would have banned saggy pants for Florida students. 

TALLAHASSEE, FL (AP) -- A deal for the state to buy 61 miles of track from a private company for a commuter rail system in central Florida could be put on hold when the Senate takes up a transportation bill today.