New Agency To Lure Businesses To Florida
In an effort to make good a campaign promise to create hundreds of new jobs, Governor Rick Scott has signed a bill creating a new state agency to promote Florida business and economic development.
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In an effort to make good a campaign promise to create hundreds of new jobs, Governor Rick Scott has signed a bill creating a new state agency to promote Florida business and economic development.
Layoffs, higher taxes and pay cuts. Those are options on the table for city leaders in the cash-strapped city of Lauderdale Lakes as they try to navigate a $9-million dollar budget shortfall.
Most homeowners would be upset if the City put a 10-foot concrete wall right through their backyard, but David Graydon and others who live in Miami's Coral Gate neighborhood pushed to have a wall like that, built last summer.
The mayor's race in Miami-Dade County has taken an interesting turn with some questions raised about Luther Campbell's endorsement of candidate Julio Robaina.
Coral Springs police are asking for the public's help in identifying two people who they suspect have been burglarizing cars in Broward for nearly a decade.
South Florida is all about fun in the sun, and as the home of the original suntan lotion, we've been paying attention to staying safe in the sun for decades. As skin cancer made people think more about sun screens instead of sun tanning, sunbathers have had to deal with some confusing claims and promises about protection. Now, the feds claim they have some help for consumers.
The Hard Rock Café in Hollywood turned 40 today and together with Neighbors 4 Neighbors they served up a birthday breakfast to 40 home town heroes to celebrate.
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When pricey construction equipment is hanging nearly 3 stories above the ground from a forklift that works as a crane, you'd think it would be tough for crooks to snatch. Not if they know how to hot wire the fork lift.
Twenty four days after a 14 year-old boy shot and killed a suspected thief in the backyard of the family's Miami Shores home, prosecutors have reached no decision on whether the killing was justified - and felony murder charges against the dead man's alleged accomplice have been dropped.
The Broward County Police Benevolent Association is fighting to save the jobs of 13 police officers who have been told they're being laid off due to a ten million dollar budget shortfall.
Florida has a reputation of being a welcoming, tourist destination. But according to the Anti-Defamation League, there's a dark side of the Sunshine State full of hate groups.
President Barack Obama landed in Puerto Rico Tuesday after leaving South Florida in the morning aboard Air Force One after a quick fund raising trip.
Miami Beach lifeguard Cynthia Aguilar plans to set off Tuesday from Key West on what she hopes will be a one-of-a-kind, record-breaking paddle-boarding feat that raises money for the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Southern Florida.
