Floridians twice as likely to be identity theft victims

City National Bank of Florida (CNB) has been named Business of the Year by the South Florida Business Journal. The award program recognizes companies for outstanding performance in the South Florida business community. Winning companies exhibit ...

Gov. Rick Scott vetoed $368 million in lawmaker pet-projects Monday and blocked a 3 percent tuition hike for Florida colleges and universities. The tuition increase passed earlier this month was a small piece of the overall $74.1 billion budget, ...

SAFETY HARBOR, Fla. -- ? For 10 years, political pros have taken it almost as gospel that the strongest statewide Democratic candidates are centrists from Florida's top battleground region of Tampa Bay.2014 gubernatorial hopeful Nan Rich says that's ...

A New Jersey firm led by former journalists is hired for $400,000 to provide a blueprint for gambling in Florida. TALLAHASSEE Spectrum Gaming Group suffered a virtual body slam once it was announced last month as winner of a $400,000 contract to ...

Health care reform drives Florida company's rapid growth. iCan Benefit Group iCan Benefit Group, a dynamic leader in and lifestyle benefit solutions, has announced plans to hire 130 health insurance agents at their new 10,000 square-foot Miramar ...

Hernando County's unemployment rate dropped by .4 percentage points from March to April, according to a Florida Department of Economic Opportunity report. Released Friday, the report shows that since this time last year unemployment has decreased by ...

TALLAHASSEE -- Florida Gov. Rick Scott, who has made job creation his top priority since coming into office, has rejected a proposed deal to bring major Internet retailer Amazon to the state. After months of behind-the-scenes negotiations, Scott ...

Florida House Speaker Will Weatherford sees great things in the state's future. "Florida is on an amazing streak. Really exciting things are happening in Florida," the Wesley Chapel Republican said Thursday at a Manatee Chamber of Commerce lunch at ...

As conferences go, this one was supposed to be pretty standard: a 7,000-person affair at the Orange County Convention Center that -- although not among Orlando's biggest shows -- still would have brought a $13 million economic boost to the Orlando ...