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The hardest life: surviving Cuban jail 11:00 PM EST

Boiled plantain-flavored water as soup. A greasy scoop of bland, yellowing beef fat as a side dish. A stew dubbed ``the giraffe'' because ``you had to stretch your neck to find something in it.'' A hairy heap of ground pig eyes, cheek, ears, and other unidentifiable parts served as a main course.

Bars could close in Florida for next hurricane 11:00 PM EST

After Tropical Storm Bonnie's brief visit last week, Teresa McLaughlin went about her usual post-storm routine: She drank a glass of white wine at the Green Parrot Bar in Key West.

Florida's clean beaches, good fishing touted on TV 11:00 PM EST

Thanks to a host of celebrities -- including Gov. Charlie Crist, star chef Norman Van Aken, and champion Miami billfish tournament angler Peter Miller -- viewers of cable's Versus TV across the nation learned Friday night what most Floridians already knew:

Shift to center helping Crist keep fragile lead 11:00 PM EST

After leaving the Republican Party before the U.S. Senate primary, Gov. Charlie Crist's strategy of veering to the political left has given him the edge in the general election, a new poll shows.

Court deals blow to public money match for Bill McCollum campaign 11:00 PM EST

A federal appeals court in Atlanta turned Florida's public campaign financing law on its head Friday, halting a critical provision that was expected to inject taxpayer cash into Attorney General Bill McCollum's struggling campaign.

Prosecutors change tactic 1:00 AM EST

(AP) -- In a surprise move, prosecutors in the case of Anna Nicole Smith's doctors and her lawyer-boyfriend say the former Playboy model conspired with the defendants to obtain massive amounts of prescription drugs.

Therapy dogs bring comfort to hospital patients 12:05 AM EST

The man sitting with his dying wife in a Broward Vitas Hospice room at first told Jana Thomas and her Shetland sheepdog Pogo not to come in.

Coast Guard allows toxic chemical use on Gulf oil 10:50 PM EST

The U.S. Coast Guard has routinely approved BP requests to use thousands of gallons of toxic chemical a day to break up oil slicks in the Gulf of Mexico despite a federal directive that the chemicals be used only rarely on surface waters, congressional investigators said Saturday after examining BP and government documents.

Spike Lee screens film that includes oil spill 10:10 PM EST

Spike Lee screened some of his new HBO documentary that includes a look at the massive BP Gulf oil spill and says no one from the oil giant is speaking to him.

FHP: Pregnant woman, unborn child killed in crash 2:45 PM EST

The Florida Highway Patrol says a pregnant Tampa woman and her unborn child are dead, and seven other children injured, after a crash in southwest Florida.