Bob Lamendola

Overdose deaths from the narcotic painkiller oxycodone and other prescription drugs marched higher last year throughout the state, but showed signs of peaking in South Florida. Gov. Rick Scott, at...

Sheriffs and police chiefs from across Florida offered Monday to pay for a controversial database to track pain-pill prescriptions, a state project that legislators have so far declined to fund....

People and their pets have been hurt when they misused pesticides and chemical bombs trying to combat pesky bedbugs that are making a comeback in the nation's hotels, institutions and...