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Bermuda, U.S. Coast Warned As Hurricane Bill Stays Offshore

AP | CHRIS GILLETTE | Posted 09.21.2009 | Home

Read More: Bermuda, Hurricane Bill Forecast, Virginia, Florida, Maryland, Hurricane Bill, Georgia, South Carolina, Coastal Flooding, North Carolina, Home News

HAMILTON, Bermuda — Hurricane Bill slammed punishing waves into Bermuda's coastal seawalls as it spun Friday over the open Atlantic, spreading b...

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McClatchy: What Rebound? Foreclosures Rise As Jobs, Income Drop

McClatchy Newspapers | Kevin G. Hall | Posted 09.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Mortgage Bankers Association, Florida, Banks, Late Mortgage Payments, Foreclosure, Economic Crisis, California, Economy, Business News

WASHINGTON -- Numbers reported Thursday by the Mortgage Bankers Association show clearly that rising job losses are worsening the nation's housing t...

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What to Do With a Cantankerous Caiman and Other Exotics That No Longer "Fit" In

Mary Ann West | Posted 08.31.2009 | Green

Connecticut's Exotic Animal Amnesty Day received a total of 135 exotic and potentially dangerous pets within the course of only a few hours.

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Rachel Maddow's Omission: Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Don't Explain Obama's Thinking

Jackson Williams | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Lake Okeechobee, Don't Ask Don't Tell, Msnbc, Florida, Alcee Hastings, President Obama, Rachel Maddow, Health Care Reform, Blue Dog Democrats, Politics News

A huge majority of Americans, 70 percent, want Don't Ask, Don't Tell ended, and it will be, but this is a foolish time to toss the issue into the mix.

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Crooked Cops Caught Plotting To Frame Motorist (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 08.29.2009 | Home

Read More: Florida, Traffic Accident, Cops Misbehaving, Cops, Home News

Four Florida police officers are seen in the dashboard camera plotting to blame a traffic accident on the woman one of them had hit with their patrol ...

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Jury Sides With Hospital That Deported Brain Injured Immigrant

AP | LAURA WIDES-MUNOZ | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Luis Jimenez, Martin Memorial Medical Center, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Illegal Immigration, Guatemala, Florida, Immigration, Immigrants, Miami, Health Care, Deportation, Politics News

MIAMI — A hospital that sent a seriously brain injured illegal immigrant back to Guatemala – over the objections of his family and legal g...

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Charlie Crist's Office Mistakenly Praises Nazi Film

AP | BRENT KALLESTAD | Posted 08.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Florida Governor, Florida, Charlie Crist, Jud Suss, John Ubel, Politics News

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Despite the content of a letter bearing his signature, Gov. Charlie Crist does not want to share an anti-Semitic movie with ...

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Florida Law Leads To Shantytown For Banished Sex Offenders

The New York Times | Posted 08.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Aclu, American Civil Liberties Union, Probation, Homelessness, Sex-Offenders-Laws, Homeless Shelters, Sex Offenders, Florida, Charlie Crist, Miami, Politics News

They used to be invisible, the four or five convicted sex offenders camping out on the Julia Tuttle Causeway connecting Miami to Miami Beach. But for ...

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Allen Stanford Aided By Florida Regulators In Alleged Scam

miamiherald.com | By LUCY KOMISAR, MICHAEL SALLAH and ROB BARRY | Posted 08.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Stanford Financial Group, Florida, Stanford, Allen Stanford, Business News

Years before his banking empire was shut down in a massive fraud case, Allen Stanford swept into Florida with a bold plan: entice Latin Americans to p...

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Burmese Pythons Invade Florida; Threaten To Move North

AP | ALYSIA PATTERSON | Posted 07.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Pythons, Snake, Florida, Burmese Pythons, Green News

AIKEN, S.C. — One by one, seven slithering Burmese pythons were dumped into a snake pit surrounded by 400 feet of reinforced fence at the Savann...

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The Fraud Squad

Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Howard Goodman | Posted 11.04.2009 | Business

Read More: Fraud, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Mortgage Fraud, Fbi, Florida, Foreclosure, Miami, Florida Foreclosure, Housing Crisis, Business News

MIAMI -- The sun-seared condominiums along Brickell Avenue stand tall and shiny, but these days they're pockmarked with vacant units, one after the ot...

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Stimulus Funds Going To Key Lawmakers' States

USA Today | Posted 07.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Florida, Ississippi, Senate Appropriations Subcommittee, California, House Appropriations Subcommittee, Texas, Army Corps of Engineers, Michigan, Stimulus, Illinois, Politics News

Most of the $2.2 billion in economic stimulus money for Army Corps of Engineers construction projects will be spent in the home districts of members o...

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Florida Turtle Tunnel Protects Motorists Too

Michael Markarian | Posted 07.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tom Coburn, Economic Stimulus Package, Turtles, Florida, Government Waste, Animals, Taxpayers, Ecopassage, Wildlife, Politics News

Spending federal money to build a tunnel for turtles is not a fleecing of taxpayers. It's a wise solution to a pressing problem.

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Be an Ex-President Without Being President First!

Dave Astor | Posted 07.18.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Supreme Court, White House, Gop, Election Fraud 2004, Al Gore, Newspapers, President Obama, Free World, George W. Bush, Time-Space Continuum, 9/11, Iraq, GOP Shenanigans, War and Peace, Star Trek, John Kerrey, Failing Newspapers, Election Fraud 2000, Iran, First Lady, Former Presidents, Ohio, Iran Election, All the News That's Fit to Print, Rip Van Winkle, President Bush, President Clinton, Bill Clinton, Florida, Michelle Obama, Washington Irving, Ex-Presidents, Election Fraud, Hypnosis, White House Vegetable Garden, Democrats, Bully Pulpit, Barack Obama, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Mainstream Media, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Tolstoy, Ahmadinejad, The Obamas, Iraq War, Republicans, Huffington Post, Comedy News

There's the Star Trek solution of changing the time-space continuum, but I'm hesitant to recommend that because of the damage it might do to the Obamas' new White House vegetable garden.

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Thank You, Bill Maher, For Asking Where in the World is Barack Obama and What is He Going To Do About Healthcare?

Anne Dunev | Posted 07.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Big Pharma, Debt, Socialized-Medicine, Car Accidents, America, Restless Leg Syndrome, Exposure to Chemicals, Lobbyists, Cheney, President Obama, Donald Rumsfeld, Restless-Leg-Syndrome, Fat, Health Insurance, The Matrix, Dick Cheney, Television, National Debt, Insurance, Vice President Dick Cheney, Washington, Universal Health Care, Cheney Torture, President Bush, Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Vice President, Michelle Obama, Lindsay Lohan, Bankruptcy, Lobbying, Surgery, Washington DC, The-Matrix, Chemicals, Capitalism, Kodak, Don Rumsfeld, Toxic Chemicals, Dumb as Hell, Pharmaceutical Companies, Bill Maher, Pharmaceutical Industry, Donald Rumsfeld Torture, Health, Caveat Emptor, Prescription Drugs, Doctors, Florida, Prescription Medication, Vice President Cheney, Politics News

Most decent people cannot conceive that anyone would profit from knowingly harming others. That is the flaw in capitalism. And that is one reason that evil can exist.

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Marco Rubio: Republican Senator Breaks Ranks To Endorse Crist Opponent

Politico | Posted 07.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Marco Rubio, Charlie Crist, Florida Senator, Senator Jim Demint, Florida, Florida Governor Charlie Crist, Politics News

Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) is set to become the first sitting Republican senator to back Marco Rubio's long-shot candidacy against Gov. Charlie Crist in...

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Teen Walks From Florida To DC To Raise Awareness For Homeless Kids

Huffington Post | Johanna Smith | Posted 07.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Homeless, Homeless Kids, Florida, Homeless Children, Homelessness, Activist, Summer Job, Summer, Giving, The Giving Life, Living News

David Ashby, a 14 year old honor-roll student from central Florida, is planning to spend the summer walking the 1,100 miles from Orlando to Washington...

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Senate Panel Approves Drilling Near Florida Coast

AP | H. JOSEF HEBERT | Posted 07.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Florida, Florida Coast, Oil Drilling Florida, Florida Drilling, Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Senate, Green News

WASHINGTON — A Senate committee has approved opening the eastern Gulf of Mexico to oil and gas drilling within 10 miles to the Florida Panhandle...

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Vern Buchanan Facing 14 Lawsuits For Auto Dealership Practices

St. Petersburg Times | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gop, St. Petersburg Times, Congressman Vern Buchanan, Vern Buchanan Allegations, Vern Buchanan Lawsuits, Florida, Vern Buchanan Indictments, Vern Buchanan, Politics News

Flush with cash and buoyed by a big reelection victory last fall, U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan seemed a prime Republican contender for U.S. senator or Flor...

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Clip and Save: $1 Million Off

Dan Dorfman | Posted 07.07.2009 | Business

Read More: Real Estate Market, Falling Real Estate Markets, Coupons, Florida, Real Estate, Business News

Looking to save a buck? Who isn't? How about saving one million bucks. Intrigued? Read on.

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Foreclosed Homes May Become Hurricane Shelters

AP | LISA ORKIN EMMANUEL | Posted 07.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Real Estate Crisis, Hurricanes, Fema, Florida Real Estate, Florida, Foreclosed Homes, Business News

MIAMI — Trying to make the best of a bad situation, federal officials might use foreclosed homes as temporary housing for hurricane evacuees in Flor...

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Ken Salazar Tours Everglades In Airboat To Learn About Invasive Species (PHOTO)

Getty | Posted 06.28.2009 | Green

Read More: Photos, Florida, Poll, Environment, Invasive Species, Ken Salazar, Feature Photo, Green News

EVERGLADES, FL - MAY 28: United States Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL), United States Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Florida Governor Charlie Cr...

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Thank God It's Thursday: The High Strung Plays Guantanamo Bay, Beyoncé Discounts What You Pay, and Woody Allen's So Far Away

Mike Ragogna | Posted 06.27.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Alessandra Ferri, Broken Social Scene, Charity, Spoletto 52, Woody Allen, Gitmo, Guantanamo, Jacksonville, Derek Berk, Los Campesinons, Pina Bausch, Alexei Ratmansky, Tanztheater Wuppertal, London, England, The High Strung, Guantanamo Bay, Ticketmaster, Feeding America, Wayne McGregor, Robert Wilson, Super Furry Animals, Park the Van Records, Detroit, Florida, Memorial Day, Krapp's Last Tape, Library, Beyoncé, General Mills, Madison Sqare Garden, American Ballet Theatre, Christopher Wheeldon, Las Vegas, Thierry Mugler, New York, Giorgio Ferrara, Festival Dei 2 Mondi, David Newfield, telegraph.co.uk, Hamburger Helper, O2, Gianni Schicchi, Entertainment News, Samuel Beckett, O2 Arena, Spoletto, Zagreb, Entertainment News

This installment of Thank God It's Thursday plucks some recent press releases (left mostly intact) that might make you say "OMG" or "WTF", or possibly, "Swear you'll never, ever do this again."

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BankUnited Seized By Regulators

AP | Posted 06.21.2009 | Business

Read More: Bankunited Fsb, Banks, Florida, Fdic, Bank United, Coral Gables-Florida, Seattle-Washington, Business News

WASHINGTON — Regulators on Thursday shut down BankUnited FSB, a struggling Florida thrift whose closure is expected to cost the Federal Deposit ...

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Haitian Boat Capsizing Kills 9; 16 Rescued

AP | JENNIFER KAY | Posted 06.14.2009 | World

Read More: Latin America, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Haiti, Haiti Poverty, Haitian Immigrants, Haitians, Haitian Boat Capsize, Florida, Illegal Immigrants, Illegal Immigration, World News