An aspiring and eager gymnast with natural talent, Chiles wanted to wish her friends good luck: Smith, Simone Biles and in particular 19-year-old Aly Raisman, one of the more experienced gymnasts ...

Lawton Chiles’ narrow victory surely changed Florida and American history — in multiple ways. Today — Nov. 8 — marks the 30-year anniversary of the 1994 re-election of Gov. Lawton Chiles ...

Sen. Lawton Chiles told Potter in 1982 that the U.S. State Department needed to make sure foreign relations were dependent on the country’s law enforcement.

Friends, opponents remember Florida Gov. Lawton Chiles 25 years after his death Chiles famously remarked that “the old he-coon walks just before the light of day” — and the He Coon label stuck.

It emboldened me to start a business in 1996, with Gov. and Mrs. Chiles exhorting me to “do good — and do well.” A remembrance of Lawton Chiles, one of Florida’s greatest Governors.

We don’t want people to come to work and be in a really bad situation.” Good advice Chiles Hospitality CEO Chuck Wolfe has risen to the top of two industries — politics and restaurants — that can be ...

Lawton Chiles was missing. It was April 1992, and Bill Sadowski, head of the state’s growth management agency, had gone down in a state-owned plane in St. Augustine and been killed along with the ...

Willon wrote for the Tampa Tribune before coming to The Times. There he covered Florida’s water wars, serial killers, hurricanes, death-row executions and Gov. “Walkin’ Lawton” Chiles.

More importantly, today’s candidates have to spend so much time raising money, going to fundraisers, and ‘dialing for dollars’ that they wouldn’t have time to walk in the first place. . . . A walk ...

In 1991, the concept of Healthy Start Coalitions and services was championed by Gov. Lawton Chiles and first lady Rhea Chiles to address alarming rates of infant mortality and low birth weights ...

The two of them started talking property rights versus regulations — you know, like you do — and pretty soon they had worked up a bill that Pruitt insisted on naming for his co-sponsor. Together they ...

TALLAHASSEE — Former U.S. Sen. Lawton Chiles is ready to run for governor — the only thing missing is the formal announcement. “We’re going to do something by Friday morning… ...