Gov. Charlie Crist this afternoon added Palm Beach, Broward, Miami-Dade, Monroe, Lee and Collier counties to his executive order declaring a state of emergency from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Read the order here.  Read More »

Two unidentified men threw a grenade into a store in St. Petersburg on Wednesday, injuring two people. “The men opened the door to the store, threw an explosive device inside and ran away,” said Vyacheslav Stepchenko, spokesman for the St. Petersburg police. Stepchenko said that the police were still investigating whether the device was a grenade or some other kind of explosive. The store, which... 

Israel has halted the flow of government sector mail between Gaza and the West Bank, causing a delay in the receipt of official documents, officials said on Thursday. Maher Abu Ouf, Palestinian director for the Erez crossing between Gaza and Israel, said Israel shut-down all mail services last Wednesday after forces detained Gaza-based postal service official Sufian Abu Zubda. “We do not know... 

Google Spying on People German prosecutors have begun a criminal probe into whether Google broke any laws when its mobile units collected private Wi-Fi data while recording images for Google Street View. The Hamburg Prosecutor’s Office said it is at an early stage of investigation, and is at least two weeks away from deciding if criminal charges will be pursued. German authorities have demanded... 

In this Wednesday May 19, 2010, photo navy soldiers stand guard near the wreckage of the South Korean naval vessel Cheonan, which was sunken on March 26 near the maritime border with North Korea, at the Second Fleet Command of Navy in Pyeongtaek, South Korea. Evidence overwhelmingly proves North Korea fired a torpedo that sank a South Korean warship in March, killing 46 sailors, investigators said... 

The salvaged South Korean 1,200-tonne corvette Cheonan North Korea must face international consequences for torpedoing a South Korean warship, Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, warned on Friday. As international diplomatic negotiations began over how to punish Pyongyang for the sinking of the 1,200 tonne warship Cheonan, Mrs Clinton’s remarks heaped further pressure on China to back... 

Obama US government will be handed the power to seize control of a failing bank and derivatives trading will be subject to new controls. Wall Street banks face their toughest clampdown since the Great Depression after the US Senate passed Barack Obama’s banking reform bill. In a historic change, the US government will be handed the power to seize control of a failing bank to avoid a collapse... 

Communism at It's peak in America! The United States reversed policy on Wednesday and said it would back launching talks on a treaty to regulate arms sales as long as the talks operated by consensus, a stance critics said gave every nation a veto. The decision, announced in a statement released by the U.S. State Department, overturns the position of former President George W. Bush’s administration,... 

Controversial: Sir Bob Geldof made the comments during a speech at a breakfast in Brisbane held to encourage businesses to pledge to provide 50,000 jobs to Aborigines Sir Bob Geldof has angered thousands of Australians by giving an impassioned ‘speech of shame’ outlining the country’s treatment of its indigenous people. Anti-poverty campaigner Geldof called Australia ‘economically... 

Proud Gay Portuguese president Anibal Cavaco Silva has approved a law authorising gay marriages, making Portugal the sixth country in Europe to allow same-sex unions. Mr Silva, a practicing Roman Catholic from Portugal’s main opposition centre-right party, says he has put his “personal convictions” aside in deciding to approve the legislation. The law, adopted in February by the centre-left... 

Crystal Castrogiovanni owns Phoenix Pipelines, a business that specializes in the relocation and installation of utilities. Though she has benefited from a program that aids women- and minority- owned businesses, she welcomes neutral processes. Phoenix plans to change a 17-year-old program that helped steer city contracts to companies owned by women, minorities and small-business owners. Under a plan... 

The past few days have been very intense on all of us that took part in this very interesting event. The jury deliberated for over 3 hours until they came up with the verdict. The defendants were found guilty on all charges and there were so many, but I will basically give you all a quick review. Mail fraud, wire fraud, Obstruction of Justice and Sedition were the main charges. I would have found... 

Africans creating problems in Russia The police of Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod broke up a massive fight between local residents and African students of the city’s State Architecture and Construction University on May 18. The fight took place in the Pushkin Park, near the dormitory. Three police squads set the fighters apart and detained most active and aggressive individuals. S everal other smaller... 

Arizona Governor Arizona did it again! Fresh from signing a law that reinforces a federal law giving police the right to ask a person stopped by police for an unrelated matter to produce papers proving the right to be legally in the US, followed by a law banning schools from teaching minority/ethnic studies courses advocating separatism, group superiority and subversion of this country, Arizona Governor... 

The Arizona state legislature (pictured) is seeking to prohibit “intentionally or knowingly creating a human-animal hybrid.” The Arizona state Senate on Thursday passed a bill making it illegal for a person to “intentionally or knowingly creating a human-animal hybrid.” The bill, which passed 16 to 12, would prohibit anyone in the state from “creating or attempting to create an in vitro human...