On Jan. 11, 2019, Florida's newly elected governor and Cabinet acted on what the state has refused to do for 70 years: pardon the Groveland Four, calling it a miscarriage of justice. I wrote about the Legislature's attempt to get that going two years earlier, when their request was ignored by the then-Rick Scott administration.

Florida lags behind most other states in pursuing sentencing reforms. We take a look at the push for reform in Florida and how that may have soured again because of 2018 election-year fears.

As part of our "Cruel and Unusual" investigation into deadly abuse and cover-up at the Florida Department of Corrections, we examine the chronic underfunding and understaffing at the agency and the failure of legislators and the governor to address it.

Gov. Rick Scott's promise that private prisons would save money have never materialized, according to audits done by state legislator and offered exclusively to the Miami Herald. We use the story as a way to give readers another window into the political influence of Florida's private prison industry.

Gov. Rick Scott is a wealthy guy who shields his assets in a blind trust, but his net worth increased 55 percent in one year and we wanted to know why. The investigation was revealing.

We found the only recorded payment against the Florida Legislature for a sexual harassment claim and it became the precedent for a settlement signed in December 2018.

After the school killings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, a small group of key legislators visited the scene. What they saw was life changing, they said. Here's my story.

Our first deep dive into the million-dollar contributions, in what is destined to be the most expensive governor's race in Florida history.

The woman whose story proved to be pivotal in a Senate investigation that led to the resignation of a powerful state senator agreed to a series of interviews for this exclusive story. She also agreed to share her revealing text messages and journal entries.

The Florida Department of Revenue kept positions open for months and ousted others to make room for top staffers of the governor's budget office, who will soon be out of a job.

After plotting the key decision points related to the struggle to clean polluted water from the Florida Everglades, a pattern emerged. It became this story.

Utility insider is caught on tape admitting the industry attempted to deceive voters into supporting restrictions on the expansion of solar by falsely portraying a constitutional amendment as a pro-solar plan. After our story, support plummeted and the amendment failed.

After Gov. Rick Scott and the state DOT tried to distance itself from blame after the collapse of a pedestrian bridge at Florida International University, I reviewed documents and spoke with current and former DOT officials and contractors to put the state's role in more accurate context.

The town that was home to the latest mass shooting decided that inaction was not an option. Here's how the families and students of Parkland pushed Florida's conservative legislature to a place it hadn't been in more than two decades.

After a state senator came under fire for racist comments, we took a look at the expenditures of his political committee and found he had hired a former Hooters “calendar girl” and a Playboy model with no political experience as consultants. After our questioning, the senator, already under Senate investigation, resigned.

After a landmark court ruling that threw out Florida's congressional redistricting map, we peeled back the evidence in an exclusive report to show how the plaintiffs figured out that Republican operatives had fixed the maps to favor their candidates.

After eight residents in a Hollywood Hills nursing home died when the air conditioning malfunctioned after Hurricane Irma, Carol Marbin Miller and I looked back at how the industry blocked a legislative proposal a decade earlier that would have required emergency generators in all homes for the elderly.

After quashing an Orlando-Tampa rail line 8 years ago, Gov. Rick Scott has steered tax money and favorable regulations to the privately run company that wants to replace it. He and his wife have investments in the lending division of All Aboard Florida’s parent company.

With comprehensive research and graphics, we were the first to give readers a look into how uneven Florida's economic recovery really has been -- an issue that in 2017 became a central theme of the Florida Chamber of Commerce. With the help of data compiled by demographers at Florida International University, we put into context what economic insecurity meant for Floridians in the run-up to the 2016 election.

I anchored a deep look into how sex has been used as a tool and a weapon for the politically powerful in Florida’s capital city.