Last week, Lutz-based banking analyst Richard Bove was in hot demand by media outlets eager to know how safe the nation's banks really are. ...more

July 22, 2008

A shelter that takes in about 16,000 animals a year welcomed 64 new arrivals Tuesday night. ...more

July 16, 2008

A Plantation woman has won the crown of Miss Florida USA 2009. Nineteen-year-old Anastagia Pierre will go on to represent the Sunshine State in the Miss USA competition in April. Pierre is a student at Nova Southeastern University in Davie. She plans to become a certified physician's assistant. ...more

July 14, 2008

Likely time channel thinking is more pervasive and indelible than any other category of channel thinking. How long would it take to build a three bedrooms, two bathrooms, two-car garage, cement block stucco house, move-in ready? Once each year contractors in Broward County would build such a house in one day. The house was then sold with the proceeds going to charity. After World War I, the war to end all wars, the United States military was essentially dissolved. When World War II demanded that we re-arm promptly, a decade of re-arming was done within a year. ...more

July 3, 2008

TALLAHASSEE - Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum is set to discuss details of a lawsuit against Countrywide Financial Corp., the nation's largest mortgage lender. ...more

July 1, 2008

Camille Landolfi of New Port Richey praises device that captured image of "punk" breaking into her car during a vandalism spree. ...more

June 25, 2008

In a decade handling evictions for the Miami-Dade County Police Department, Albert Fernandez has run across a middle-class father bankrupted by his daughter's cancer treatment, an old woman scammed by a gambling husband, and countless families perpetually on the edge of poverty. ...more

June 8, 2008

One of the three men accused of fatally beating a homeless man as he slept on a park bench pleaded guilty Friday and agreed to testify against the others. ...more

May 24, 2008

Law enforcement officers have canceled an Amber Alert for three siblings who disappeared from Broward County. ...more

May 23, 2008

The seeds of secession have been planted in the sandy soil of South Florida. ...more

May 8, 2008