A lawsuit that accuses Florida of running shoddy schools is a half-baked, politically motivated crock.
Just ask Mayor Roger Wishner, who helped kill a multimillion-dollar city partnership with Merrill Lynch because parent company Bank of America has been accused of being mean to the little guy.
And this time, Republican Gov. Charlie Crist -- who has his own U.S. Senate race to worry about -- was not by his side.
Disney's first African-American princess – and its first official new royal since Mulan hit the scene in 1997 -- was officially welcomed to the Magic Kingdom Monday morning. (See our photo gallery here.)
This is Rep. Alan Grayson and Rep. Paul Broun discussing a bill to deny funds to one specific named organization in a Science and Technology markup. Such a bill is known as 'a bill of attainder'.
WASHINGTON - Hoping to score another point in the health-care debate, U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson took to the House floor Wednesday to promote a Web site that aims to memorialize Americans who die because they don't have health insurance.
Republicans eager to unseat a brash Orlando Democrat who said their party's healthcare plan amounts to hoping people ``die quickly'' have so far been unsuccessful in finding a candidate. But now comes a willing Republican -- all the way from South Florida.
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Love him or hate him, America quickly learned U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson's name this week after the freshman Democrat from Orlando used a pair of House floor speeches to galvanize — or further polarize — the raging debate over health-care reform.
The Republican effort to unseat U.S. Rep.
On Monday October 5, 2009, ABC World News with Charles Gibson ran a feature story titled "The Business of Life Insurance: Betting on your own Mortality." This feature story was clearly motivated by a Front Page article that appeared in the Sunday Edition of the New York T …
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World News Tonight (ABC) considered Life Settlements. Producers of the program found a physician consumer, Dr. Eddy Powell, who had happily sold his life insurance policy for far more than the value which the life insurer would have offered him at the time. Dr.
Hannah Giles, the Florida International University student whose undercover tape of ACORN activities became a national expose, has a journalistic history here in Broward County, at Broward College. Giles worked at the student newspaper last year and did some political writing.
Health insurance reform certainly is a must. The reason why is the current system requires a much too heavy burden on the people, all the people who pay into the system, while only delivering services to half the population.
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Madeleine LLC, an arm of private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management will retain control of the Las Olas Riverfront entertainment and shopping complex after apparently submitting the winning bid at a public auction this morning at the Broward County courthouse.
A Miami cop tasked with taking Crime Stoppers tips had other plans, authorities say, instead taking nearly $15,000 in reward money for himself and two friends. Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers doles out cash for tipsters who turn in criminals.
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Sworn statements filed this week from two paramedics contradict Colleen Shipman's statement to police that former astronaut Lisa Nowak sprayed her in the face with pepper spray during a 2007 confrontation.
A 15-year-old Orange County girl who ran away from home after an argument with her mother in 2007 was kidnapped and held captive in an underground world of drugs and forced prostitution.
CLERMONT - Clermont police have interviewed one suspect who is admitting to putting up the dozens of posters pasted around the city depicting President Obama as the Joker character from the Batman film The Dark Knight, city officials confirmed.
Last September, a homeless woman in Pompano Beach was raped and nearly strangled. Earlier in the year, two homeless men in West Palm Beach were shot and killed and a Fort Lauderdale man was accused of harassing the homeless with a chain saw
Their red shirts read: ``We'll fight till hell freezes over -- Then, we'll fight on ice!''
WASHINGTON - After earning nearly 250 wins on the college gridiron, former Notre Dame coach Lou Holtz is eyeing another competition -- as a candidate for Congress in Central Florida.
In the not-too-distant future, the government may be riding along with you, keeping tabs on when, where and how far you drive.
LAKE BUENA VISTA -- News 13 has learned a driver of the Walt Disney World Monorail System was killed when two monorail trains collided early Sunday.
Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer has taken to using a cliché when he discusses the likelihood of the SunRail commuter train once again going to the state Legislature for approval. "Third time's the charm," he says.
Just ask Mayor Roger Wishner, who helped kill a multimillion-dollar city partnership with Merrill Lynch because parent company Bank of America has been accused of being mean to the little guy.
Disney's first African-American princess – and its first official new royal since Mulan hit the scene in 1997 -- was officially welcomed to the Magic Kingdom Monday morning. (See our photo gallery here.)
This is Rep. Alan Grayson and Rep. Paul Broun discussing a bill to deny funds to one specific named organization in a Science and Technology markup. Such a bill is known as 'a bill of attainder'.
WASHINGTON - Hoping to score another point in the health-care debate, U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson took to the House floor Wednesday to promote a Web site that aims to memorialize Americans who die because they don't have health insurance.
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