A Florida community group is staging a hunger strike in protest of Bank of America's lack of transparency in its lending practices toward low-income minorities. More...

A coalition of health care groups advocating for public health insurance have launched a 10-day television ad campaign targeting senators in 10 states, including Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, and North Carolina. More...

As the hurricane season opens, officials on the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts are concerned about the record number of foreclosed homes -- which when left unsecured could become sources of dangerous wind-blown debris and damage neighboring homes in already-struggling communities. More...

Advocates from Florida and beyond call on Washington to stop deporting Haitian immigrants as the small island nation recovers from devastating hurricanes and years of social turmoil. More...

More than 2,000 juvenile offenders in the U.S. are serving life sentences without the possibility of parole. This week the Supreme Court agreed to hear two Florida cases that will decide whether life sentences for juveniles in non-homicides are unconstitutional. More...

The Florida press is rallying against a last-minute push by state Republicans to legislate a massive re-write of the election code and restrict voting. And GOP Gov. Charlie Crist -- looking to a future Senate run -- isn't happy. More...

The 2010 Census will determine who gets new Congressional seats and billions in federal dollars. But tight budgets and major social dislocations have states worried they won't be able to get an accurate count. More...

After limiting debate to six minutes, Florida Republicans pushed an 81-page bill proposing a host of new voting restrictions out of a House committee last week. A similar bill is coming to the Senate floor -- and with big majorities in both chambers, will the GOP succeed in changing Florida elections? More...

Renewable energy projects are booming in one Florida city after leaders borrowed a simple policy innovation from Europe. Could the feed-in tariff cure America's dirty energy addiction? More...

Across the country, 23 Republicans running for Congress in 2008 fared worse than John McCain did in their districts -- and the majority were in the South. More...

As Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainee population booms in the U.S., medical care in detention has become a critical issue. Some recent cases of immigrant deaths while in custody might be just the tip of the iceberg. Cheryl Little reports. More...

Could tapping the ocean's currents represent the energy wave of the future? More...

Passing voter ID laws is quickly becoming one of the GOP's top issues for the 2009 legislative session. From Texas to South Carolina, lawmakers are working to see the controversial voter laws take root in the South. More...

Southerners may not know it, but they are intimately connected to Israel's campaign in Gaza in at least one way: The South supplies a large share of the weapons being used in the deadly conflict. More...

Alabama Secretary of State Beth Chapman this week announced that she will push for a bill to allow military personnel and others living overseas to cast ballots online. More...

New figures released from the Bureau of Justice Statistics reveal that U.S prison population continues its record rise with the South leading the way. But will the costly prison policies only worsen the economic burden in the cash-strapped region? More...

Florida papers are closely watching the battle between NASA chief Mike Griffin and Obama's transition team. More...

Immigrant advocates have criticized the tactics used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials last month in a series of federal raids in South Florida. Advocates demanded an investigation Tuesday into the set of raids that left at least six... More...

WED 12/3/08 -- A white supremacist is threatening to sue a Florida county's Republican Party for refusing to seat him on its executive committee. But there's more to the story. More...

Texas is set to thin out its death row before the week is over. Since mid-October Texas has executed eight inmates, with another two scheduled for execution by the end of this week. That's a total of ten executions in almost thirty days, a new record even for the country's most active death penalty state. More...