The Polk County Sheriff's Office today announced 21 arrests in what authorities say is a multimillion-dollar baby-formula theft ring operating in at least three states. The men and women arrested face a variety of charges, including organized retail theft, shoplifting, possession of fake driver's licenses, larceny and fraud. All are in the country illegally. ...more

March 6, 2009

Maybe Florida's pilot steroid testing program scared high school athletes away from performance-enhancing drugs. Or maybe performance-enhancing drugs were never a major issue in the state's schools. ...more

February 16, 2009

It's another sign of the times. Most real estate buyers and sellers know about short sales - where houses are worth less than their mortgages. But these days, there are real estate agents who specialize in short sales. ...more

February 5, 2009

Florida continues to outperform the national average on most measures of success in Advanced Placement exams, according to data released Wednesday. ...more

February 5, 2009

Florida continues to outperform the national average on most measures of success on Advanced Placement exams, according to data released today. ...more

February 4, 2009

Pink slips are piling higher as companies scramble to cut costs even deeper to survive the country's economic and financial storms. ...more

January 8, 2009

Teen pregnancies increased 7 percent in Florida from 2005 to 2006, according to a federal report released Wednesday. The state had the 17th highest rate of teen births among the states. ...more

January 8, 2009

Mississippi now has the nation's highest teen birth rate, displacing Texas and New Mexico for that lamentable title, a new federal report says. ...more

January 7, 2009

The number of homeowners caught in the wave of foreclosures in October grew 25 percent nationally over the same month in 2007, data released Thursday showed. ...more

November 13, 2008

Pump prices continued to tumble in the past week, falling more than 25 cents to a national average of $2.656 a gallon, new government figures show. In some places, gasoline is selling for less than $2 a gallon. ...more

October 28, 2008