Multimillionaire former Congressman Tim Mahoney was arrested and charged with DUI early Saturday morning. He spent the rest of the night in the Palm Beach County Jail.

According to a story Sunday in Scripps Treasure Coast Newspapers, a police officer found Mahoney, 53, asleep behind the wheel of his car at about 2:45 a.m. Saturday. Under the law, a DUI charge can be filed even if a car isnt moving as long as the driver has actual physical control over the vehicle.

The remnants of former Tropical Storm Emily moved as a tropical depression into the open Atlantic and away from Florida on Sunday, after dumping rains on the Bahamas.

The storm now is headed toward Bermuda.

The remaining clouds and thunderstorms carried top sustained winds of 35 mph with little change in strength expected over the next 24 hours, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.

Emily's rains set off flooding that killed four people and forced thousands to evacuate their homes in the Dominican Republic and Haiti over the last few days.

Tropical Storm Emily, weakened after passing over mountains in the Dominican Republic on Thursday, has an 80 percent chance of re-forming and strengthening within the next 48 hours, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.

The remnants of the storm could be forming a tropical depression as it approaches Grand Bahama Island and the Abacos, the Miami-based center said in an advisory posted on its website at 2 p.m. New York time. A U.S. Air Force Reserve plane was sent to determine whether a depression has formed.

Republican Sen. Marco Rubio filed paperwork this week with the Federal Election Commission to create Reclaim America PAC. By so doing, he joins other Senate tea-party favs who have created similar political action committees. The idea is to influence races and elect like-minded conservatives in 2012.

In spite of admitting it had made a $2 trillion error in calculations, Standard & Poor Friday night downgraded U.S. debt to AA+ from AAA.

The following is the S&P press release:

We have lowered our long-term sovereign credit rating on the United States of America to AA+ from AAA and affirmed the A-1+ short-term rating.

We have also removed both the short- and long-term ratings from CreditWatch negative.

On a day when most market analysts expected cautious trading and more bad news, they got something a whole lot better on Friday.

U.S. blue-chip stocks closed higher, thanks to a better-than-expected jobs report, with news of progress in the euro-zone debt crisis.

Meeting in Stowe, Vt. -- a town that calls itself the "Maple Sugar Capital of the World" -- Americas sugar industry learned Wednesday that it is still generating nearly 130,000 direct and indirect jobs and almost $20 billion in annual revenue. That's according to a study released Wednesday at the 28th International Sweetener Symposium.

Sunshine State News ranks among "The Best State Political Blogs," according to a national compilation by the Washington Post.

Post columnist Chris Cillizza lists Sunshine State News in a 50-state compendium of top political sites at his page, "The Fix."

Cillizza said his selection process was "entirely driven by Fix readers and commenters," adding the legalistic caveat: "Many of the blogs are partisan and may use language and/or images that neither 'The Fix' nor the Washington Post condones."

Pam Bondi isn't hiding and she's apparently unafraid of the truth.

That was fairly obvious after Tuesday's Cabinet meeting when the Florida attorney general announced she will appoint an inspector general to investigate her dismissal of two foreclosure attorneys in the AG's Broward County office.

NASA claims its scientists are keeping a close eye on Tropical Storm Emily in the Caribbean as they prepare a powerful Atlas V rocket for launch Friday.

It's a very big, post-shuttle deal for the space agency -- a $1.1 billion mission to Jupiter.

The United Launch Alliance Atlas and its payload -- NASA's Juno spacecraft -- are scheduled to blast off from Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 11:34 a.m. Friday. NASA says the launch window that day will extend until 12:43 p.m.