Floridas top financial regulator will step down this summer and South Florida securities lawyers, who say theyre seeing an ugly resurgence of boiler-room stock fraud and bucket-shop commodity swindles, are calling on Gov. Rick Scott to name a replacement who will beef up state regulation.
Former Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts, the front-runner for the Republican presidential notification in 2012, announced late Thursday that his campaign will not take part in straw polls being set up in Florida, Iowa and Michigan.
Arguing that the event helped propel Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and Bob Dole to the partys nomination, the Republican Party of Florida (RPOF) is hosting the Presidency 5 straw poll in Orlando in September.
Federal officials overseeing a Shell Oil request to drill in deep water in the Gulf of Mexico are relying on false assumptions and accepting inadequate safety standards to prevent a repeat of the BP Deepwater Horizon spill, environmentalists charged Thursday in a complaint filed in federal court to stop it.
Former Republican Congressman Mark Foley of West Palm Beach had no idea three weeks ago when he agreed to appear on Fox News' "Sean Hannity" show at 9 p.m. Thursday that the interview would plunge him into such painfully familiar territory.
The first of 11 meetings begins Friday in Tallahassee, with Agency for Health Care Administration officials giving a brief overview of the coming changes to Medicaid before taking questions and comments.
The law moves most of the nearly 3 million Medicaid beneficiaries in Florida from a fee-for-service model of health-care delivery to a managed-care system in which companies vie for contracts in 11 different regions in the state. Even though the law officially becomes effective July 1, the transition into managed care won't begin until 2012.
Registration for Florida's GOP presidential straw poll closes Friday.
A mass resignation by Newt Gingrich's top staff dealt a potentially fatal blow to the Republican's presidential campaign Thursday.
Already struggling with mixed messages and a backlash by conservative voters, the former House speaker's prospects looked bleaker than ever after his campaign manager and at least six other top advisers and aides abruptly quit.
