Like a Good Neighbor: State Farm Will Stay, Raise Rates
State Farm Florida Insurance Co. will remain in the Florida market after dropping 125,000 policies and receiving a 14.8 percent rate hike under an agreement reached Wednesday with state regulators. Almost a year after the company announced plans to drop its nearly 1 million policies and exit the state, Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty said [...]
Domino’s Pizza Changes Core Recipe
For folks who get their jollies complaining about the taste of Domino’s Pizza, the company is about to do the unthinkable. The world’s largest pizza delivery chain today will unveil plans to change every part of its core pizza. New crust (added butter, garlic and parsley). New cheese (shredded instead of diced mozzarella, with a [...]
Making It Big on YouTube
LOS ANGELES – If it’s Wednesday, it’s production day for Shane Dawson. Dawson makes a living producing videos – mostly spoofs of pop culture – that run on YouTube, the Web’s most popular online video service. He lives on his split of the advertising revenue. (YouTube won’t say how much it gives out.) On Monday, [...]
Comcast Putting Cable TV on the Net
Comcast took the biggest step yet on Tuesday to bring cable TV shows to the Web – aiming to create a template that eventually could give most cable customers the flexibility to watch movies and shows just about anywhere. The No. 1 cable operator began to offer people who subscribe to both its TV and [...]
Groups Try to Delay Deportations
Rigoberto Padilla, 21, came to the USA from Mexico when he was 6. He went to school in Chicago, joined the honor society and dreamed of becoming a lawyer – all while living here illegally. Padilla’s status wasn’t a problem until he applied for college and couldn’t qualify for financial aid without a Social Security [...]
Celebs: Tiger’s Bunker Strategy is a Mistake
Charles Barkley says Tiger Woods has changed his cellphone number and apparently isn’t talking to some of his famous friends. And that, says Barkley in comments taped Monday for a Turner Sports special airing on the HLN channel Sunday, is a mistake: “When you have these ‘fires’ in your life, as I call them, you [...]
Big Ten Might Be Getting Bigger
Expansion of the Big Ten Conference from 11 to 12 teams is once again a possibility, the league and its Council of Presidents/Chancellors announced Monday. A 12th team would allow the conference to form divisions in football and have a championship game – a scenario viewed as inevitable since Penn State was voted in as [...]
‘The Morgans’ Isn’t About Much
There’s just no reason to go see the slight and forgettable romantic comedy “Did You Hear About the Morgans?” Oh, there are a few amusing moments – mostly credited to star Hugh Grant’s quips – but the movie by rom-com veteran Marc Lawrence never quite rises above the routine. The whole project feels like it [...]
Crist Orders State Investigation Into ‘Wafflegate’
Gov. Charlie Crist ordered a state investigation Tuesday into allegations that his administration’s highest-ranking transportation officials deliberately disguised e-mails about the rail bill passed in the recent special session to avoid public records requests. Crist’s move came in response to a letter from Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink, a Democratic candidate to replace him next [...]
Shock Poll: Rubio Now Tied With Crist in Senate Race
Governor Charlie Crist and former state House Speaker Marco Rubio are now tied in the 2010 race for the Republican Senate nomination in Florida. A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of likely GOP Primary voters finds Crist and Rubio each with 43% of the vote. Five percent (5%) prefer another candidate, and nine percent (9%) [...]
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