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A University of Central Florida student, upset religious groups hold church services on public campuses, is holding hostage the Eucharist, an object so sacred to Catholics they call it the Body of Christ.

A South Florida man is recovering at the hospital after he lit a cigarette and his vehicle exploded.

Have skyrocketing gas prices got you down? The same crude oil that is refined into fuel is also used to make plastics, fertilizers, roofing material and asphalt for roads.

Authorities are investigating a fire that destroyed a South Florida home and left a family homeless.

The days of rock-bottom tuition may be ending for some of Florida's universities.

When school starts this fall, students will pay from 6 percent to 15 percent more in tuition than they did last year.

The University of Florida, Florida State University and the University of South Florida plan to charge 15 percent more than last year. Florida International University hopes to join that group; its board of trustees will consider a 15 percent increase at a July 7 meeting.

The University of Central Florida plans to raise its tuition 9 percent this fall. All other state universities, including Florida Atlantic University, plan to go up 6 percent as approved by the state Legislature.

An Ecuadorean college student who alleges her relatives were targeted for deportation because of her immigration activism said Friday they are again being punished by being placed into an expanded house arrest ...

Miami-Dade prosecutors arrested a man for a double murder last February in a case that will test Florida's so-called "Stand Your Ground" self-defense law.

Miami-Dade firefighters clear a washing machine and other burned items from a laundry room that caught on fire after lightning struck it Wednesday.

Luis Garcia lives in Neo Vertika, one of the glitzy new condo towers transforming the banks of the Miami River - a funky corridor of tugboat operators, boat-repair shops and shipping terminals.

One man was crushed to death and another injured when the driver of a pickup rolled over them and then fled Tuesday evening, police said.

Central Florida Community College announces that the Levy Center in Chiefland has received state approval to offer real estate courses on site.

A group of Cuban rafters were picked up by the Coast Guard over the weekend off the Florida Keys.

The 7 refugees were first spotted by group of cruise ship passengers about 30 miles south of Key West. As the captain slowed the ship to get a closer look at the group he radioed their position to the Coast Guard.

Passengers on the upper decks took home video of the 6 men and woman as they paddled what looked to be a makeshift boat made of wood, blue tarps and tape. As cruise ship crew members gave the refugees water and bread, they were told that the group had been at sea for four nights. One of the rafters gave a passenger the phone number of his father who lived in Miami. That passenger called the older man to let him know his son was all right.

Elian Gonzalez, whose Miami relatives lost a battle to keep him in the United States, has joined Cuba's Young Communist Union, a Cuban newspaper says.

Florida ranks as one of the lowest-paying states in the nation in what it pays unemployed workers.

Eight years after a headline making international custody fight which ended with his return to his father in Cuba, Elian Gonzalez has joined Cuba's Young Communist Union.

In an article in Cuba's communist youth newspaper, Juventud Rebelde , the 14-year old Gonzalez said he would never let ex-President Fidel Castro and his brother Raul Castro down. He joined more than 18-thousand others who joined the group on Saturday.

In 2000, Gonzalez' mother was killed when a boat carrying them to the U.S. capsized in the Florida Straits. Elian, who was 6 years old at the time, and two other refugees were found clinging to an inner tube for survival. After his rescue the boy stayed with relatives in South Florida until a long tug of war over custody end with armed federal agents seizing him from his great uncle's Miami home. Elian then returned to Cuba with his father.

A motorcyclist fell about 40 feet to his death early Saturday after he crashed into a barrier along the Interstate 95 southbound on-ramp from Broward Boulevard and fell over it in Fort Lauderdale, according to ...

Releases shift the burden for child safety from the people who make money from dangerous activities to parents who know little about the risks, Rockenbach argued.

"His show stopping performance at my fundraiser made the evening! I cannot thank him enough for lending his talents tonight.

Miami-Dade County's taxicab drivers were given the go-ahead to begin assessing surcharges to make up for rising fuel prices.

Dresses, shirts, pants, your closet may be full, but there's probably a bunch you're not wearing.