Florida’s population has declined for the first time in 63 years, state researchers said as they blamed the recession for plunging tax revenues and a steep drop in new residents. The decline — 58,000 people over the past year — …
Five Florida air traffic controllers are suing roofing contractors claiming they lost their jobs after being unable to work because of toxic chemical exposure. The five employees, Barbara Cooper, Shawn Fields, Dan Kersh, Joe Tingler and Tommy Young, claim they …
Horst and Luisa Ferrero, of Gainesville, Fla., took their 3-year-old, Sebastian, in for a medical exam last October. Two days later he was dead, killed by a series of medical errors that began with a massive drug overdose. The tragedy …
The blast from an explosion that killed four workers at a Florida chemical plant last month was equal to a ton of TNT and blew debris as far as a mile away, a U.S. investigator said Thursday. “The blast at …
Railroad operator CSX Corp. said Tuesday second-quarter earnings fell almost 17 percent from a year earlier, when the company saw a gain from insurance recoveries related to Hurricane Katrina. Net income declined to $324 million, or 71 cents a share, …
5 men indicted in nationwide workers’ comp scam Five people, including a man from Tempe, have been indicted in an alleged $100 million workers’ compensation fraud scam that officials say left hundreds of workers across the country without urgent medical …
