When Tom Cotton, a robust Republican, discovered that an agent for his insurance company had plastered a withering anti-George W. Bush bumper sticker — “A village in Texas is missing its idiot” — on her car, he had to bite down hard on a st…

With sales slipping, Olive Garden is trying to win back customers who have fallen out of love with the nation’s largest Italian chain.

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Stacy J. Ford has become a partner with the firm Pohl & Short, P.A., Winter Park.

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Occupational licenses issued recently by county and municipal governments in Central Florida.

This week

Florida’s unemployment rate fell into single digits for the first time in more than two and a half years last month, dipping to 9.9 percent, state officials said Friday.

Federal authorities have rejected a request from Florida to get a waiver on a crucial reform requirement — a move that could clear the way for state consumers to get more than $170 million in refunds on their health insurance.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Home sales hit an 11-month high in December and the number of properties on the market was the fewest in nearly seven years, pointing to a nascent recovery in the housing sector.