To many people, it's a health food. To others, it's simply soda in disguise. That virtuous glass of juice is feeling the squeeze as doctors, scientists and public health officials step up efforts to reduce the nation's girth. ...more

November 9, 2009

from school vending machines. ...more

November 7, 2009

Vending machine sales and contracts cause cutbacks for school funding. ...more

November 6, 2009

Gambling is getting easier for Floridians. That's because the Florida Lottery is rolling out the first of 1,000 instant ticket vending machines this week, starting in Tampa and Fort Myers. ...more

August 19, 2009

Construction worker Anthony Carey usually gets $50 in scratch-off lottery tickets once a week at the convenience store where he gasses up, but he says that probably will change when Florida reintroduces vending machines this year in supermarkets. ...more

June 6, 2009

Florida Lottery sales are going flat, a legislative audit reported today. ...more

March 12, 2009

Imagine technology that lets you pay for products by waving your cell phone over a reader. ...more

January 28, 2009

In April, Lowell Weaver of Oviedo drove across the state, steered his 2000 Range Rover into the Bob Wilson Dodge dealership in Tampa and traded for a new Dodge Nitro. ...more

October 19, 2008

The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office is looking for a man it says stole $1,000 from vending machines in an apartment complex laundry room. ...more

August 21, 2008

Misery loves company, the saying goes. When it comes to record gasoline prices, there's plenty of misery to go around for everyone. ...more

July 20, 2008