BY CURTIS MORGAN cmorgan@MiamiHerald.com Hurricane Bill weakened slightly to a Category 3 early Thursday — packing 125 winds — but forecasters warned the powerful storm could grow stronger by day’s end. The...
By DAVID G. SAVAGE Tribune Washington Bureau Aug. 20, 2009 — President Teddy Roosevelt campaigned as a trust-busting reformer, but was embarrassed by revelations that his 1904 campaign had received secret contributions...
By JOHN KENNEDY THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA THE CAPITAL, TALLAHASSEE, Aug. 18, 2009….A state Senate Republican primary battle has pulled former Gov. Jeb Bush off the couch and before the cameras to help longtime ally...
BY BETH REINHARD breinhard@MiamiHerald.com Aug. 19, 2009 — Gov. Charlie Crist flew to Miami Tuesday afternoon to vet former U.S. Attorney Roberto Martinez for a U.S. Senate appointment, less than 24 hours after U.S....
BY MARC CAPUTO Herald/Times Tallahassee Bureau FILE PHOTOS A new poll revealed Alex Sink, right, has lost ground to Republican rival Bill McCollum, left. Gubernatorial candidate Alex Sink has lost ground to Republican rival...
By DAVID ESPO AP Special Correspondent Aug. 19, 2009 — A spokesman for the health insurance industry accused Democrats of mounting a “fishing expedition” on Wednesday, as individual insurers decided whether...
August 17, 2009 By EVAN LEHMANN of ClimateWire Several states prone to natural disasters are measuring the odds on a mega-bet. Concerned observers say those calculations are based on “Lady Luck” and...
Posted on Tue, Aug. 18, 2009 BY MARY ELLEN KLAS Herald/Times Tallahassee Bureau A phone company accused of overcharging Miami-Dade jail inmates and their families for collect calls has agreed to pay $1.25 million in...
By Alex Leary St. Petersburg Times Aug. 17, 2009 — On a recent Wednesday morning, 1,000 insurance brokers spread out across Capitol Hill with a singular mission: Kill a proposed...
Aug. 16, 2009 — Some lucky ”patients” get flat-screen televisions as gifts from home care providers. It’s the cost of doing business in South Florida — Medicare fraud that’s robbing...