Cops: Paper carrier shot armed man tapping on window
Source: Orlando Sentinel Online
Tampa :: FL :: USA | updated 2013-05-13 06:32:36 -0700 | political-news
FloriDUH Brian Scott Dickey II's girlfriend called his brother to intervene when the couple got into a feud. When the brother arrived things only got so worse so the brother left...After firing off his gun, Dickey approached two newspaper carriers, and...
Reverse mortgage foreclosure: A growing tragedy for seniors
Posted by: itobin53
Tampa :: FL :: USA | updated 2013-05-06 17:18:17 -0700 | political-news
The television commercials for reverse mortgages make them sound too good to be true. For an increasing number of seniors facing reverse mortgage foreclosure, they are turning out to be a tragedy. While a reverse mortgage may help some seniors...
State Sen. Tom Lee, a divorced dad, leads charge for changes in custody laws
Source: Miami Herald
Tampa :: FL :: USA | updated 2013-04-19 18:26:59 -0700 | political-news
Advocates for alimony reform are cheering legislative votes this week to end the awarding of lifetime payments by the bread-winning ex-spouse. But the legislation includes a less-publicized yet equally sweeping change. It would require judges to presume divorcing parents get...
New WWE training center in Orlando to have 7 wrestling rings, sound stage
Source: Orlando Sentinel Online
Tampa :: FL :: USA | updated 2013-04-18 11:11:24 -0700 | political-news
The new center, which also will have strength-and-conditioning and physical-therapy areas, will replace a similar one in Tampa, WWE executive Paul Levesque said in an interview. "Orlando will be the home to the future of WWE," Levesque said. Details of...
Deadline arrives for filing income tax
Source: Herald Tribune
Tampa :: FL :: USA | updated 2013-04-14 22:33:31 -0700 | political-news
Ten million Floridians will file federal income tax returns this year, and many of them are scrambling to finish the job and meet today's deadline. The Internal Revenue Service estimates that up to one-fourth of all taxpayers wait until the...
Is income inequality here to stay?
Posted by: itobin53
Tampa :: FL :: USA | updated 2013-04-16 12:55:59 -0700 | political-news
Once the corporate welfare beast knows what it’s like to run free, it’s never happy to be tied up again. That pretty much sums up the problem America faces when it comes to the growing wealth of the wealthy, and...
Parents who kidnapped boys to Cuba face detention
Source: USA Today
Tampa :: FL :: USA | updated 2013-04-12 11:02:13 -0700 | political-news
Fla. (AP) For the second day in a row, a couple charged with kidnapping their boys and sailing with them to Cuba to elude authorities face a judge in a Tampa courtroom. Joshua and Sharyn Hakken (HAY'-ken) face a pretrial...
Judge undecided on if Anthony's story can be sold
Source: The Boston Globe
Tampa :: FL :: USA | updated 2013-04-09 20:42:59 -0700 | political-news
Fla. (AP) A judge said Tuesday that he will take 30 days before deciding whether the trustee in Casey Anthony's bankruptcy case can sell the commercial rights to her life story as a means to clear some of her outstanding...
U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor: Lift Cuba embargo, travel restrictions
Source: Miami Herald
Tampa :: FL :: USA | updated 2013-04-08 13:54:32 -0700 | political-news
Rep. Kathy Castor on Monday called for the Obama administration and Congress to lift travel restrictions and the 51-year-old trade embargo on Cuba. "Cuba is changing," said Castor, D-Tampa, who left on a fact-finding trip to Cuba Wednesday evening and...
Tampa airman killed in Afghanistan
Source: SF Gate
Tampa :: FL :: USA | updated 2013-04-05 22:59:48 -0700 | political-news
Fla. (AP) The Defense Department has released the name of a Florida airman killed in Afghanistan...James Michael Steel of Tampa died in a crash of an F-16 near Bagram Airfield on Wednesday. The Air Force Academy says he was the...
Authorities: Man kidnaps 2 young sons in Fla.
Source: Associated Press
Tampa :: FL :: USA | updated 2013-04-03 22:21:17 -0700 | political-news
Authorities are searching for two young boys they believe were kidnapped by their father from their maternal grandparents' Florida home after their grandmother was tied up. The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office on Wednesday night asked for the public's help in...
The Tempest
Posted by: twtimlinnet
Tampa :: FL :: USA | updated 2013-04-01 10:53:37 -0700 | political-news
Once our earth was filled with green fields that were kissed by the sun. Once there were blue skies filled with white puffy clouds gently floating high above. Once there were valleys where fresh clean water used to run. Now...
Rewarding failure: Corporate welfare queens take all
Posted by:
itobin53
Tampa :: FL :: USA | updated 2013-04-02 01:57:10 -0700 | political-news
After the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression of the 1930s, corporate profits are at record highs while 106 million Americans are now living below the poverty line. Is this substantial income inequality gap an inherent aspect of free...
Judge fines Buchanan contributor
Source: Herald Tribune
Tampa :: FL :: USA | updated 2013-03-25 14:44:29 -0700 | political-news
Rep. Vern Buchanan to three years of probation and $200,000 in fines for organizing an illegal campaign donation scheme to help Buchanan's past campaigns for Congress...Mobley had faced up to 10 years in prison for organizing the scheme that funneled...
Why do 'red states' have more poverty?
Posted by:
itobin53
Tampa :: FL :: USA | updated 2013-03-07 21:00:47 -0800 | political-news
Americans do not have to guess what the country would be like if the small-government, conservative economic agenda were implemented on a national scale. Many Republican-controlled, predominantly Southern “red states” already have. The result is not an abundance of prosperity...
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