The Florida High School Athletic Association will kick off its final day of State Football Championship with a battle between to large public schools that have dominated all year. Venice (13-1) will ...

A crowd grows around the Sunday drum circle at Venice Beach where locals and visitors meet up for an evening of music and dance. courtesy of ALEXANDER GALLAGHER–SOLTES From the cardigan-clad woman ...

VENICE – Brunno Reus dreamed of games like Friday night when he joined the Venice High football team earlier this year. The senior kicker/punter had plenty of practice on point-after-tries and ...

TALLAHASSEE — Lakeland was the defending Class 4S state champion but went into the the state semifinals last week as the No. 4 seed among the four teams remaining. However, for the second year in a ...

Venice — Italy's "City of Canals" marked its 1,600th birthday on Thursday, but there was little to celebrate. As CBS News correspondent Chris Livesay reports, the once thriving tourist destination — ...

Fans reacted as AJ Marks and Eric McFarland III helped MG Academy take down the Venice Indians 21-16 on Saturday to improve to 6-1 for the season. Venice, meanwhile, dropped its first game of the ...

Angelo Gasca of Venice is the quarterback whisperer. He develops top quarterbacks, and his latest pupil is 6-foot-5 senior Paul Kessler, who passed for 1,561 yards and 16 touchdowns as a junior.

Even among the bohemians of Venice, John Thomas stood out. He was 6 feet 4, weighed 300 pounds and spoke in a rolling, resonant baritone that left no one behind. But, more than that, he was a ...