IRS: Some stimulus checks sent to wrong accounts
Some of those federal economic stimulus checks are being deposited directly into recipients' bank accounts. But some are not -- and are instead winding up in the bank accounts of complete strangers.
Gator roaming Deltona apartment complex bites deputy
A Volusia County sheriff's deputy was bitten by an alligator and airlifted to Halifax Health Medical Center late Thursday night, according to EVAC Ambulance spokesman Mark O'Keefe.
Office condo units go for 50 cents on the dollar
The auction of the remaining 20 or so office condo units in the north and south towers of The Plaza in downtown Orlando went more slowly than many expected Thursday, one more sign of the stagnant real estate market.
Hurricane coverage bill to grow by $600 mil.
TALLAHASSEE | Floridians' bill for the 2004 and 2005 hurricanes is about to grow another $600 million. The state catastrophe fund, which sells cheap reinsurance to insurers, needs to collect roughly 45 percent more than the $1.35 billion originally estimated to pay claims.
Rain not forecast for days
In their battle against area wildfires, Brevard County firefighters have every reason to feel they're also fighting the weather. And there's little relief in sight.
Tampa Bay Rays reveal financing plan for waterfront stadium
ST. PETERSBURG | Tampa Bay Rays baseball executives on Thursday announced a multipart $450 million financing plan they say demonstrates that a 34,000-seat waterfront stadium is a viable possibility.
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Ellen found Gabe's puckish antics quite appealing when they first started dating, but now she wishes he would be more serious.
Did you know?
We know Puck as "that merry wanderer of the night," the shape-changing, maiden-frightening, mischief-sowing henchman to the king of the fairies in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. The Bard drew on English folklore in casting his character, but the traditional Puck was more malicious than the Shakespearean imp; he was an evil spirit or demon. In medieval England, this nasty hobgoblin was known as the "puke" or "pouke," names related to the Old Norse "pūki," meaning "devil." But it was the Bard's characterization that stuck, and by the time the adjective "puckish" started appearing regularly in English texts in the late 1800s the association was one of impishness, not evil.
