October 23, 2014

COLLIER COUNTY, Fla.- The battle for the governor’s office is entering the final stretch. Republican Governor Rick Scott is putting an unspecified amount of his own money into the race, while Democrat Charlie Rrist and his supporters, are getting ad blitzes of their own ready. Governor Scott and the first lady took the campaign bus […]

OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) – The mother of the man accused of killing a soldier at Ottawa’s war memorial then storming Parliament before being shot dead says she is crying for the victims of the shooting, not her son. In a brief and tear-filled telephone interview with The Associated Press Thursday, Susan Bibeau said she did […]

WASHINGTON (AP) – Islamic State militants are amassing wealth at an unprecedented pace, earning about $1 million a month from black market oil sales alone, a Treasury Department official said Thursday. David Cohen, who leads the department’s effort to undermine the Islamic State group’s financial strength, said the extremists also get several million dollars a […]

OCALA, Fla. (AP) – The human remains found strapped in a single-engine plane that was missing for months will be sent to a University of Florida lab for identification. Sheriff’s officials in Marion County said Wednesday the C.A. Pound Human Identification Laboratory in Gainesville will evaluate the remains found late Sunday in a wooded area […]

MIAMI (AP) – Some door knockers may not be eligible to vote themselves, but that hasn’t stopped them from trying to persuade thousands of others to head to the polls. Immigrant groups in Miami-Dade and Polk counties said this week they have visited more than 25,000 homes to encourage minority residents to vote next month. […]

MIAMI (AP) – Several flights were delayed at Miami International Airport after authorities say an international passenger joked about having a bomb. Airport officials said in a news release that 60-year-old Manuel Alberto Alvarado was checking in for his Avianca Airlines flight to Caracas, Venezuela, on Wednesday morning when he made a comment about having […]