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The privatization of Florida’s prison health care system was supposed to save taxpayers millions.But the cost to deliver care to the state’s 96,000 prisoners has instead increased over the past five years, including by $46 million this year alone.

New Horizons Apartment Homes opened today. The collaboration between the City of Orlando and local nonprofits is bringing affordable, sustainable housing to the West Side.

Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue says the short-term assistance shows the president has the farmers' backs. GOP critics call it a bailout.

Many Baby Boomers are opting for housing alternatives after they retire. Cohousing, where land, some expenses, and activities are shared, is one of these trends.

Journalist Michael Scott Moore went to East Africa to write about piracy. Then he got kidnapped and imprisoned for 977 days. The Desert and the Sea chronicles his incredible ordeal.

Megan Abbott's new novel centers on a two young women whose high school friendship has morphed into professional rivalry. Critic Maureen Corrigan calls Give Me Your Hand a "spectacular thriller."

Camas Davis wanted to learn about conscientious farming, slaughtering and eating, so she moved to France and became an apprentice at a small, family-run slaughterhouse. Her memoir is Killing it.

A new report says a road safety project in Orlando decreased speeding and traffic. Curry Ford Road sported painted-on bike lanes and added pedestrian islands for four weeks this spring.

The engineer views a landfill as a living ecosystem, and the plastic that clogs it as a serious threat that crowds out life and never goes away. Can we eliminate the waste before it smothers us?

In an era of dwindling reporting staff for many news operations, the arrival of a brand new news organization is noteworthy. The Florida Phoenix, a non-profit news site with a statewide focus, launched this month in Tallahassee. Editor-in-Chief Julie Hauserman, a former reporter for the St. Petersburg Times, joins us to talk about going beyond the headlines and digging into the big stories as startup news organization.