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Ex-Florida governor candidate McBride dies at 67
Bill McBride, the Florida Democrat who defeated Janet Reno for the party's gubernatorial nomination in 2002 but lost to Republican Gov. Jeb Bush, has ...
Victim's brother pushing police to find shooter
Al Gentry is running out of time to find his brother's killer. After years of chasing leads, he thought he'd found the person responsible for the 1986 ...
Spradling helps K-State beat No. 8 Florida 67-61
Leave it to the kid from suburban Kansas City to help Kansas State finish off a banner day for the college hoops programs that the city calls its own.
UCF's Bortles dominates in Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl
Blake Bortles is just one of the reasons why Central Florida feels good about its chances of being successful in the new-look Big East. The red-shirt ...
Bortles shines for UCF in Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl
Central Florida will head into the new-look Big East off an impressive showing in the Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl. The Knights dominated Ball State 38-17 ...
Mexico frees ex-Marine jailed for bringing in gun
A Marine veteran jailed for months in Mexico after trying to carry a family heirloom shotgun across the border has been freed, U.S. officials and his ...
Teen gets 11 years prison in Fla. burning attack
A teenager convicted of orchestrating an attack on a middle school classmate who was soaked in alcohol and lit ablaze was sentenced to 11 years in ...
Placido Polanco agrees to $2.75M deal with Marlins
Former All-Star third baseman Placido Polanco agreed to a $2.75 million, one-year contract Thursday with the Miami Marlins, plugging the final hole ...
Wade, James carry Heat past Timberwolves, 103-92
The Miami Heat were outrebounded by 28, matching the second-largest margin in team history. They finished with only 24 boards, matching the ...
Kansas exhumes bodies of 'In Cold Blood' killers
The bodies of the two men executed for the 1959 murders of a Kansas family that became infamous in Truman Capote's true-crime book "In Cold Blood" ...
Unions plan new offensive after Michigan loss
Blindsided by a new law weakening union rights in Michigan, organized labor is preparing to target Republican governors in politically important ...
Petraeus mistress won't face cyberstalking charge
The Justice Department has decided not to charge David Petraeus' mistress, Paula Broadwell, with cyberstalking as part of its investigation into an ...
Prosecutors: Fla. man planned NY terror bombing
A Pakistani-born man wanted to avenge the deaths of U.S. drone attacks in Afghanistan by blowing up a New York City landmark but lacked the money and ...
A&M's Johnny Football is AP's Player of the Year
Johnny Manziel ran for almost 1,700 yards and 30 touchdowns as a dual-threat quarterback his senior year of high school at Kerrville Tivy. Who would ...
Students nervously return to school after shooting
Victoria Millon bowed her head during a moment of silence at her Miami elementary school on Monday and thought about the 20 children nearly her age ...
Fla. woman gets life in prison in family killings
A woman who was convicted of orchestrating the beating deaths of her millionaire husband and mother-in-law was sentenced Monday to life in prison.
Students prepare for nervous return to classes
Jessica Kornfeld drove her children to their elementary school this past weekend. She wanted them to feel reassured that it was still a safe place, ...
Schools around US increase security after massacre
Jessica Kornfeld sat down with her son and daughter after school on Friday and shared with them the unthinkable, horrific news out of Connecticut: ...
Arizona pulls out 65-64 win over No. 5 Florida
Arizona's football team pulled out an improbable victory in the New Mexico Bowl on Saturday. The basketball team made it a daily double by doing the ...
Athletes shaken by Connecticut shooting
When the Miami Heat players and coaches showed up for work Saturday morning, basketball was secondary. Newtown was the focus. Friday's massacre at an ...
A guide to college football's 35 bowls
The BCS has been criticized plenty for not getting it right over the years, from all those teams that believed they should have been playing for a ...
McAfee in Miami after deportation from Guatemala
Anti-virus software founder John McAfee said Thursday that U.S. authorities have made no efforts to question him since he arrived in Miami after weeks ...
Fla. caseworker stabbed to death during home visit
An inexperienced health care caseworker who visited a client at his home knew there was something that made her "very uncomfortable" about the ...
McAfee released in Guatemala, flies off to Miami
Anti-virus software founder John McAfee was released from a detention center Wednesday and was escorted by immigration officials and police trucks to ...