It may be too early to know how the economy has affected the local homeless population, but organizers of Thursday's countywide homeless census expect an increase. ...more

February 27, 2009

About 180 volunteers are searching behind Wal-Marts, staking out labor pools, circling bus stations and scouring city streets today to count homeless people. ...more

February 26, 2009

Customers with Medicare insurance or drug coverage through WellCare Health Plans Inc. have a few options to consider now that federal regulators cracked down on the company's practices. ...more

February 21, 2009

Customers with Medicare insurance or drug coverage through WellCare Health Plans Inc. have a few options to consider, now that federal regulators cracked down on the company's practices. ...more

February 20, 2009

In the weeks and months before Gov. Rod Blagojevich's arrest on charges he tried to sell a U.S. Senate seat, Roland Burris, whom Blagojevich would ultimately appoint to the Senate, had conversations about the seat with the governor's brother, his chief of staff, and one of his top fundraisers, Burris has acknowledged. ...more

February 15, 2009

A Sarasota man has been arrested on federal charges that he sent threatening e-mail to people, including a state representative. ...more

February 12, 2009

All-Star shortstop Miguel Tejada has pleaded guilty to lying to Congress about the use of performance-enhancing drugs in professional baseball. ...more

February 11, 2009

Authorities have arrested a former employee of a Best Buy store in West Palm Beach for allegedly stealing credit card numbers of some 4,000 customers. ...more

February 7, 2009

A bill passed Wednesday would make human smuggling a third degree felony with a five-year maximum prison sentence. ...more

February 4, 2009

Tests have linked Roger Clemens' DNA to blood in syringes that his former personal trainer says he used to inject the pitcher with performance-enhancing drugs, according to a report. ...more

February 3, 2009