Bright House Networks officials say Verizon technicians are leaving wires loose in cable TV boxes at customer homes, posing an electrocution and fire hazard. And they're asking state officials to step into the dispute. ...more

December 12, 2008

TAMPA -- Bright House Networks officials say Verizon technicians are leaving wires loose in cable TV boxes at customer homes, posing an electrocution and fire hazard. And they're asking state officials to step into the dispute. Verizon officials say the issue is blown out of proportion. ...more

December 11, 2008

In the summer of 2004, the conservative gadfly Jerome R. Corsi shot to the top of the best-seller lists as co-author of "Unfit for Command," the book attacking Sen. John Kerry's record on a Vietnam War Swift boat that began the larger, damaging campaign against Kerry's war credentials as he sought the presidency. ...more

August 13, 2008

SEBRING — As the economy is tanking, more people seem to want to ride a tank… at least with the Army National Guard. A local recruiter for the Army National Guard estimated Tuesday that he has seen a 10-percent increase in the number of people calling or coming to his office to sign up. He believed the economy was a factor in the increase, even though he also credited a more "aggressive marketing technique" over the Internet for the added interest. ...more

July 4, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - Amid rumors of sex parties, Caliente Resorts, off U.S. 41, recently had its charter with the American Association for Nude Recreation temporarily suspended. ...more

June 4, 2008

Merck & Co. has agreed to pay $58 million as part of a multistate settlement of allegations that its ads for the once-popular painkiller Vioxx deceptively played down the health risks. ...more

May 21, 2008