MIAMI (AP) - The head of a state agency that allowed thousands of criminals to sell home loans in Florida has acknowledged that his office did not follow a screening law, but blamed legislators for failing to provide money to enforce it. ...more

July 25, 2008

The head of a state agency that allowed thousands of criminals to sell home loans in Florida has acknowledged his office did not follow a screening law but blamed legislators for failing to provide money to enforce it. ...more

July 25, 2008

The head of a state agency that allowed thousands of criminals to sell home loans in Florida has acknowledged that his office did not follow a screening law, but blamed legislators for failing to provide money to enforce it. ...more

July 24, 2008

A second group called on Tuesday for Florida's top mortgage regulator to step down, a day after the state's chief financial officer asked for his resignation. ...more

July 23, 2008

It's no surprise Florida leads the nation in mortgage fraud. State regulators have allowed thousands of criminals to enter the mortgage business, scarcely lifting a finger to protect homebuyers from con artists. ...more

July 22, 2008

Alex Rodriguez's wife will file for divorce today, according to media reports. ...more

July 7, 2008

And then somebody brought a chicken into the newsroom. ...more

June 19, 2008

Florida's secretary of state says it doesn't make sense to continue taking up state archive space with ballots from the 2000 presidential election. ...more

June 2, 2008

Floridians are now in danger from yet another act of the Florida Legislature. Allowing employees to keep guns in their cars at work even when their employers object only facilitates workplace violence. This bill should have been titled the Workplace Violence Enabling Act. Oddly enough, media coverage gives the impression that the only issue is "gun rights" versus the property rights of employers. Apparently the public safety and the safety of employees isn't worth mentioning. Gun laws passed by the Florida Legislature in the last few years flies in the face of every known fact about gun violence. Take the so-called Castle Law, which encourages gun toters to shoot whenever they feel threatened. This ill-advised law gives those who shoot first more rights in Florida than any other jurisdiction in the world. ...more

May 9, 2008

In June 2006, the federal government announced with much fanfare that it had arrested seven Miami men and foiled their al-Qaida-inspired plot to blow up Chicago's Sears Tower and wage a "ground war" against the United States. ...more

May 8, 2008