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Atlanta businessman Herman Cain won the Florida straw poll Saturday, defeating second-place Rick Perry after the Texas governor spoke to a group of activists with a breakfast speech.

Bringing a blow to Texas Governor Rick Perry's favorite status, former Godfather Pizza CEO Herman Cain has emerged as the winner of the Presidency 5 straw poll Saturday. Cain received 37 percent of the 2,657 votes cast.

Finally, NASA's falling angel, the 6 ton bus-sized Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) plunged back to Earth on Saturday morning, said NASA. The defunct satellite is the biggest piece of space debris to fall from the sky since the Sky Lab in 1979.

Less than two months after ending her attempt to swim from Cuba to Florida because of health problems, Diana Nyad is trying it again. She was about halfway through the swim as of Saturday evening.

The Texas Rangers, Milwaukee Brewers and Arizona Diamondbacks advanced to the playoffs on Friday by securing the final three divisional titles.

Herman Cain won the Florida presidential straw poll on Saturday in a stunning upset, getting more votes than Rick Perry and Mitt Romney combined. Are we looking at a reshaped race for the Republican nomination?

In a major political surprise, Florida Republican Herman Cain scored a victory in the state's GOP presidential straw poll.

A millionaire developer who lived in the same central Florida neighborhood as Tiger Woods was convicted Saturday of murdering his wife in their mansion.

The NASA satellite falling from space has landed in Canada, near Calgary, but nobody was hurt, according to reports.We can now confirm that #UARS is down! reported the official NASA Twitter account. Debris fell to Earth between 11:23 p.m. EDT Friday, Sept. 23, and 1:09 a.m. EDT Sept. 24.

Casey Anthony, who was accused of killing her 2-year-old daughter three years ago, is getting into more serious legal troubles. A Florida judge on Friday ordered Casey to reimburse double the amount to investigators for searching her 2-year-old daughter's body.

A rare American crocodile was spotted in the community pond of a gated community in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Debra Lafave, the Florida teacher found guilty of a sex scandal with a 14-year-old student in 2004, ended her probation Thursday following a court ruling to terminate it early.

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Davis was pronounced dead at 11:08 p.m. on Wednesday after Georgia officials executed him by lethal injection. He was put to death for the 1989 murder of police officer Mark MacPhail, and convicted in 1991.

James Cameron and Disney have partnered up to bring fans into world of “Avatar” at Walt Disney World.

David Freese's hot bat boosted the St Louis's playoff hopes as his five RBIs led the Cardinals to a 6-5 win over the New York Mets on Wednesday.

The Heisman race is heating up.

A Beatles contract for a 1965 California concert that reveals that the Fab Four refused to play before a segregated audience has sold for $23,033 -- more than four times its estimated price.

The Big East plans to aggressively and ambitiously pursue new conference members, but where exactly does it turn?

Davis was tried and convicted for the 1989 murder of Mark MacPhail, a police officer in Savannah, Ga.

A Florida woman with a rare medical condition has given birth to healthy twins - one from each of her two uteruses.