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• Report: Florida Congressman Mahoney Settles In Sex Scandal

  Brian W. Smith | October 13, 2008 2:33 PM | 4 CommentsTallahassee, FL

  West Palm Beach Congressman Tim Mahoney (D-FL) has agreed to a $121,000 payment to a former mistress, Patricia Allen, who worked on his staff and was threatening to sue him, according to ABC...

• Insurance Institute Recommends Higher Legal Driving Age

  Sandy Grinnell | September 11, 2008 10:42 AM | 4 CommentsOrlando, FL

  After reviewing recent statistics on traffic-related teen deaths, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) will be recommending at its upcoming that states raise the legal driving age to 17...

• Catholic Diocese of Venice and the Elderly

  Joe Saunders | September 01, 2008 7:52 PM | 4 CommentsSarasota, FL

  There's a troubling story in the Sarasota Herald Tribune today about the Diocese of Venice. No, this time it's not about the sexual abuse of minors. Rather, it's about the Diocese buying aparments...

• CSX Train Lawsuit Follows Teen Death On Trestle

  Eddie Farah | June 13, 2008 10:36 PM | 4 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  A 17-year old Clay County high school football player, Wesley Whiddon Jr., who was struck and killed by a train lastmonth, wasdoing what many people in the Black Creek area regularly do- fish from...

• 14-Year-Old Dies in Stolen Car Accident

  Eddie Farah | April 12, 2008 8:07 PM | 4 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  The driver of an allegedly stolen car that crashed into a house Saturday was just a 14-year-old middle schooler. It happened across from Douglas Anderson School of the Arts in the St. Nicholas...

• MADD Announces Campaign To Eliminate Drunk Driving

  Bruce Gibson | July 19, 2007 4:31 PM | 4 CommentsOrlando, FL

  MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) recently announced that alcohol-related traffic deaths are at an all time high since 1992 and has called upon Congress to hold immediate hearings to address solutions. According to NHTSA, alcohol-related traffic fatalities exceeded 17,900 for the year 2006, the highest number in 15 years. We all have known people who have lost a loved one in a car crash...

• Number of Yaz and Yasmin Lawsuits Growing

  Eddie Farah | November 13, 2009 7:10 PM | 3 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  In 2007, Susan Galinis of San Francisco was the happy mother of 3-year-old twins, until doctors put her on the Yaz birth control pill. Four weeks and one day later she suffered a...

• Medtronic...Beleaguered Consumers and Yet Another Recall

  Brenda Fulmer | September 29, 2009 3:31 PM | 3 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL

  On August 27, 2009, the Food & Drug Administration issued yet another recall for a device manufactured by Minnesota-based Medtronic (who also has experienced recalls of its pain medication...

• Texting While Driving PSA Getting Lots of Attention

  Sandy Grinnell | August 25, 2009 12:27 PM | 3 CommentsOrlando, FL

  A British public service announcement is getting a lot of air time these days, and not just on British television but on YouTube. The very graphic PSA depicts a horrific accident that begins with...

• Inadequate Staffing Takes its Toll in Health Care Industry

  Don Greiwe | July 20, 2009 11:02 AM | 3 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  Recently, the American Nurses Association (ANA) released the results of an ongoing survey of nurses across the U.S., and the findings are grim. The survey received more than 15,000 responses from...