PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) — First lady Michelle Obama visited the Florida Panhandle on Monday to shine a spotlight on a tourism industry battered by the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
PENSACOLA, Fla. – The chief White House spokesman says President Barack Obama is ready to seize the damage claims process from oil giant BP unless it agrees to set up an “independent entity” to do the job.
If the Tea Party were anything to go by this year, there wouldn’t be much more in a name than irony. There is of course a lot to say about the concepts and catchphrases thrown about in their rhetoric, including those related to the revival of the time-honored debate about socialism and capitalism. But are […]
From TheGrio.com: A former teacher claims she was fired after admitting that she conceived a child several weeks before marrying the baby’s father. Jaretta Hamilton was fired by St. Cloud, Florida’s Southland Christian School after asking for maternity leave. She says when she made the request her boss asked if the child had been conceived […]
From TheGrio.com: A woman has been charged with smuggling heroin into Florida’s Charlotte County Jail by hiding it in her vagina. Katrina Montez Wade, 37, was arrested on May 20th when deputies raided a suspected drug den in Port Charlotte. Wade and another woman went to jail on trafficking charges after detectives say they found […]
PORT FOURCHON, La. — The BP oil slick drifted within striking distance of the Florida Panhandle’s white sand beaches for the first time, raising the stakes another notch as submersible robots made another risky attempt to control the underwater Gulf of Mexico gusher.
From TheRoot.com: The national struggle for the soul of the Republican Party has now moved to Florida’s Senate race. And the battleground reveals with great clarity the mounting conflict between party loyalty, ideology and ambition.
From NBCMiami.com: Electronic road sign hackers generally like to warn motorists of zombie and raptor attacks, but in South Florida, the signs are apparently being used to fuel the immigration debate.
From the New York Times: MIAMI — Off Florida’s Gulf Coast, the seas are calm and the king mackerel are running. Captain Joe Meadows’s telephone should be ringing with bookings for his 42-foot sport fishing boat for the summer season. Instead, the calls are from reservation holders wondering if they should cancel.
From HuffingtonPost.com: Florida urologist Jack Cassell posted a sign on his office door reading, “If you voted for Obama … seek urologic care elsewhere. Changes to your health care begin right now, not in four years.”
