Paul Skalnik was a career criminal and jailhouse snitch whose unbelievable testimony secured dozens of convictions—including that of Jim Dailey, who awaits execution.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission says it followed the law when it pulled the driving records of more than a dozen critics of the agency.
In the U.S., government officials aren’t allowed to fight ideas they don’t like with censorship.
Newly published dashcam footage shows a sheriff’s deputy driving recklessly to pull over an actress he’d met while working on the set of the TV show Bad Monkey.
Plus: L.A. criminally charges contractors offering to build an ADU in the Palisades, South Carolina streamlines squatter removal, and a Florida city uses eminent domain to thwart state housing law.
High-level state officials launched a threat investigation over a harmless postcard to Florida's chief financial officer.
Police have arrested at least 15 people in recent years based on bad facial recognition hits.
Less than a year after launching with its own merchandise line, "Alligator Alcatraz" is officially shutting down.
Civil rights and environmentalists vowed to keep fighting in court until the detention camp is torn down and returned to its original state.
Police arrested and charged Robert Dillon with a heinous crime based on nothing more than a faulty image search.
An earlier project already led to a 95 percent drop in biting females of one disease-carrying species in Fresno.
The cartoonist caught the FBI’s attention over a bizarre scheme involving Matt Gaetz, a CIA agent held captive in Iran, and a Florida fraudster.
Leaked reports showed troubling uses of force and restraint chairs at the Krome North Service Processing Center—until the details disappeared.
A new lawsuit claims that ChatGPT gave the shooter information about busy times on campus and how to use guns.
The agency's transparency policies may undermine federal and state laws designed to ensure the free flow of information necessary to hold government actors accountable.
Sources say the immigration detention center costs more than $1 million a day to run.
Plus: French ship attacked, pro se on the rise, Mamdani's grocery store, and more...
While many of the states that are growing are currently seen as safe red territory, today's Republican-voting states could be tomorrow's swing states.
A new Florida law would allow state leaders to designate certain groups as terror organizations.
Police often call their profession a brotherhood, but two Palm Beach sheriff's deputies took the analogy too far.
Plus: D.C. considers single-stair reform, Idaho legalizes starter homes, and Florida bans discrimination against manufactured housing.
Increasing income taxes almost always results in less revenue and less economic activity.
Mar-a-Lago’s district went blue. Is it a warning to Republicans for the midterms?
The lawsuit alleges that the city has a history of silencing pro-Palestine speech.
Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd and other Florida law enforcement leaders say they'd rather be focusing on immigrants who are committing crimes.
Plus: An effective build-to-rent ban advances in Congress and Florida expands one of the country's most successful zoning reforms.
House and Senate committees were unfazed by the obvious First Amendment problems with the proposed Statewide Counterintelligence and Counterterrorism Unit.
Plus: Zohran Mamdani's rent rip-off hearings exclude public housing tenants, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu is a "yes" on rent control, and the intersection of zoning and qualified immunity.
Plus: The House passes housing reform, Florida advances ADUs, and Zohran Mamdani hosts show trials for bad landlords.
People don't like property taxes—but they are also not eager to cut the government services they fund.
The bill has a wide variety of groups worried that they could be targeted for criticism of large agribusinesses.
Sandy Martinez's little-known story is a microcosm of the broader debate over what, exactly, transgresses the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines.
Judges across the country are fed up with the Trump administration's refusal to follow court orders requiring it to give bond hearings to detained immigrants.
FIRE condemned the police visit: "This blatant overreach is offensive to the First Amendment."
"I will not allow a generation of smart and capable young women to sell their bodies online," said Republican gubernatorial hopeful James Fishback.
Lawmakers across the country are introducing bills that would make it easier to build smaller single-family homes on small lots.
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