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A credit-card company is pursuing City Commissioner James L. Exline for $37,295 in unpaid bills, court records show. MBNA America Bank has sued Exline in Palm Beach Circuit Court, seeking payment of the credit-card charges that the bank said it was awarded a year ago in arbitration proceedings. The bank's lawsuit contends that Exline did not object to the award, but didn't pay it either. The bank added that multiple attempts to contact him were unsuccessful. Exline said last week that he was unaware... |
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On a quick walk through Shands Jacksonville's pediatric intensive care unit, Tracy East almost shudders when she spies a child in bed hooked up to tubes and wires. |
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Imagine a gig that allows you to bike to your job in shorts and sandals, work around the water alongside a bunch of friendly dogs and their two-legged masters and never, ever, have to battle a South Florida commute. |
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The street was eerily quiet as Linda Little approached the weather-beaten wooden house. Only the sound of a passing train disturbed the silence. |
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With one week left in Florida's legislative session, lawmakers are leaving two of the thorniest issues for last -- home and auto insurance. |
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Puerto Rico's House of Representatives is expected to hold another all-nighter tonight to try to come up with a solution to the $1 billion deficit crisis that threatens to shut down the island's government Monday. |
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(AP) -- A federal review found a hospital provided questionable treatment of three people who died there and had other problems in its emergency room, issues that could jeopardize its Medicare funding. |
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Gary Lee knows you can't stop growth. He understands the economic advantages it brings and the job opportunities it affords. But the Kissimmee native who grew up on acres of rural land hates ''not being able to drive five miles in less than 15 minutes'' and, truthfully, he can't imagine raising his grandchildren in a region plagued by urban sprawl. |
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Eric Duke resembles a student -- Kangol caps, diamond stud earrings -- until he gets in front of the classroom and speaks with authority about Ella Baker and other black figures. |
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Gov. Jeb Bush's four-year effort to gut a constitutional amendment that reduces class sizes went down in flames Friday when a breakaway group of Republicans in the Senate sided with Democrats to kill an attempt to send the question back to voters. |
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A federal judge rejected prosecutors' efforts Friday to require lawyers for terror suspect Jose Padilla and two other defendants to sign a special security document regarding handling of secret evidence. |
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A group of black lawmakers decided Friday to investigate whether state Rep. Ralph Arza made any racial slurs about Miami-Dade's black schools chief. |
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Nearly five months after passing a sweeping ban on all gifts and meals from lobbyists, state lawmakers tried to make clear Friday what they didn't ban: campaign contributions. |
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Despite concerns raised by some engineers, NASA said Friday that it plans to put off any further design changes to the shuttle's external fuel tank until after Discovery's flight in July. |
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Florida's attorney general decided Monday to prosecute a false-claims case against the global firm Convergys, accused by a whistle-blower of fraudulently claiming it had security systems to protect the identities of state workers after it won Florida's massive human-resources management contract. |
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State Sen. Gary Siplin, the flamboyant former bond lawyer who owes $187,100 to Miami-Dade County for a now-defunct hat shop, was charged Monday with grand theft for requiring his state staff to do campaign work on the state dime. |
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Republican Sen. Mel Martinez may be a key player for comprehensive immigration reform in the U.S. Senate, but he may not carry as much influence with his Florida colleagues in the U.S. House. |
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National Review, the conservative magazine, is calling for Katherine Harris to take herself out of the race for U.S. Senate in Florida ``for the good of her party and for the good of her own reputation.'' |
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With five months left to go before Republican voters choose their candidate for governor, Attorney General Charlie Crist is widening his fundraising gap over his GOP rival, Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher. But both campaigns continue to raise amounts that shatter all previous fundraising records. |
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State lawmakers want to bridge the digital divide. Their target: school kids. Computers and Internet service would be sold at discounted prices to students in grades 5-12 who attend public and charter schools, as well as those who are home-schooled, under bills proposed in both chambers of the Legislature. |
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A law passed last year to get teens to buckle up is actually leading to more tickets for parents and other older adults. Police say it's difficult for an officer to tell whether a driver is 18, so cops are making relatively few of those stops. But it's easy to tell when there are children in the back seat not wearing seat belts and that's leading to more ticketing of adults. |
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Sifting through newspaper articles detailing graphic images of her daughter's murder, Kay Shukwit says she's still grappling with the gruesome details of the August 2004 beating deaths that claimed the lives of six friends, including her daughter, Michelle Nathan. |
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(AP) -- The state's medical board has dropped its case against an Orlando abortion doctor who served prison time on an extortion charge. |
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(AP) -- No tickets matched all six Florida Lotto numbers drawn Saturday night, resulting in a rollover to $50 million for Wednesday's drawing, lottery officials said Sunday. |
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Unlike many in the Legislature, state Rep. Bob Henriquez isn't a lawyer, a business owner or a multimillionaire. He's a football coach at Tampa Catholic High School, making about $30,000 a year. |
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Oscar Melendez is the ultimate frat guy. He recruits for hours, throws the Valentine's Day ''crush party,'' organizes community service events and attends meetings with fellow fraternity presidents twice a month -- all for the University of Florida's chapter of Lambda Alpha Upsilon. |
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When Cindy Derocher opened her windstorm insurance bill last December, two months after Hurricane Wilma flooded her modest concrete block home, her heart nearly stopped. |
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Florida Attorney General Charlie Crist wants the public to know he is ``anti-murder.'' It's a sexy sound bite, eminently usable in his campaign for the governor's office, that means he supports a piece of legislation that would crack down on probation violators convicted of violent crimes. |
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A Palm Beach County child abuse investigator who got naked on the Howard Stern radio show will face consequences when she gets back from vacation. |
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The cost of building roads has gotten so high, even dirt isn't cheap. That is causing Florida and other states to delay the construction of highways, despite traffic congestion. |
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