Disgraced Mark Foley Launching New Radio Show
Three years after he fled Congress for sending sexually explicit messages to teenage pages, Lake Worth’s Mark Foley resurfaces as a radio talk show host this week. The show will air at 6 p.m. Tuesday on South Florida’s AM-960. But a sample of the former Republican lawmaker’s views have been made public in an interview [...]
Cindy Graves Tapped to Lead Florida Republican Women
The Florida Federation of Republican Women have elected Cindy Graves of Jacksonville to lead their organization through the 2010 and 2011 election cycles. Graves was sworn in as the new FFRW president by Shirley Sadler, President of the National Federation of Republican Women, following a unanimous election at the FFRW Biennial Convention in Orlando last week. [...]
Jaguars: Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
If Sunday’s game between the Jacksonville Jaguars (0-2) and the Arizona Cardinals (1-1) was a movie, then it would be “Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs.” At least, for me, that’s what the Jaguars’ game plan looked like. Also, the weather was threatening most of the game, but Jacksonville never threatened the Cardinals. In a [...]
Ohio Athlete’s Sentence: No Prison, No Sports
CINCINNATI – Applause turned to gasps in a Butler County, Ohio, courtroom Thursday as a judge announced an unusual punishment for a Middletown track and football star. Dwayne “Deejay” Hunter is forbidden from playing organized sports during his five-year probation for a felonious assault conviction. “We’re going to see who Dwayne Hunter the person is, [...]
Florida Unemployment Dips
Florida’s unemployment rate dipped to 10.7 percent in August but remains significantly higher than a year ago, according to figures released Friday by the Agency for Workforce Innovation. Last month’s jobless rate fell 0.1 percentage points from a revised figure for July, which at 10.8 percent was the highest recorded level since October 1975. The [...]
What to Watch Tonight…
It’s the first day of the new season, and every primetime hour on the five networks is new. Unfortunately, Fox’s offering is a two-hour, stand-alone “House” (Fox, 8 p.m. ET/PT) that, while ambitious, ultimately plays like an adult after-school special. There are two terrific actors at the center of the story, as House (Hugh Laurie) [...]
Denise Richards on ’9/11 Truthers’ and Her Show
Anyone who follows Denise Richards’ Twitter feed knows that the actress has been besieged this month by inquiries as to whether she — like former husband Charlie Sheen, who wrote to President Obama about the subject — is among the “Truthers” who believe the 9/11 attacks were actually the result of a conspiracy within the [...]
Blaze a Trail to Fall Foliage Getaways
When Weather Channel meteorologist Jim Cantore polled his Twitter followers this week on their favorite leaf-peeping destinations, the responses ranged from predictable (the Blue Ridge Parkway) to offbeat (I-95 in New Jersey). For his part, Vermont-born Cantore is particularly bullish about his old stomping grounds this year. “They had a ton of water and cool [...]
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