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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Global equity markets rose on Monday as investors sought better returns in stocks, while uncertainty over the Federal Reserve's stimulus program caused gold to pause from its longest losing streak in four years. Despite major U.S....

Check for unclaimed property found in safe deposit boxes -- before June 8 when Florida auctions off more than 76,000 items turned over to the state. Jewelry, watches and rare coins will be among the unclaimed possessions auctioned in Tampa at the...

USF coach Willie Taggart wants to give the UCF-USF rivalry some time to grow. Early Monday morning before the start of the American Athletic Conference meetings, I got a chance to chat briefly with Taggart, who was enjoying his coffee and newspaper at...

Missing Boca Raton attorney Timothy McCabe once had ties to what federal authorities have described as a web of South Florida businesses that financially preyed on people desperate to avoid foreclosure, the Sun Sentinel has found. McCabe got some of his...

Florida's got fanboy down. Where else can you count on an annual Wookie sighting? Disney's Star Wars Weekends, though, going on from May 17 to June 9 at Disney's Hollywood Studios, is just one of Florida's great offerings for movies, TV, comics and...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The yen rose from a 4-1/2-year low against the dollar on Monday after Japan's economy minister suggested the currency might have weakened enough, prompting some investors to pare bets against it. The yen's slight reprieve came...

ZEPHYRHILLS, Fla. (AP) — It could be an anxious wait of up to two months for people in a small Florida city to find out who won the highest Powerball jackpot in history: an estimated $590.5 million. The lucky ticket was bought sometime Saturday or...

(Reuters) - A single winning ticket for a record Powerball lottery jackpot worth $590.5 million was sold in Florida, organizers said late on Saturday, but there was no immediate word about who won one of the largest jackpots in U.S. history. The...

Big brothers always outrank little brothers -- even the ones about to become officers in the U.S. Army. That's why Ayman Mageed, 23, stood perfectly still (though not quite at attention) while his brother, Sherif, 36, playfully jostled him before the...

My guess is the addition of my favorite piece of public art, "The Exploding Chicken," to the Channelside area is the cause of what happened last week. The Chicken, now perched in the Channelside roundabout, has brought new life to a stagnating area....

CHINO BERMUDEZ was a student at Bok Vocational High School when he heard his first rap lyrics. He was smitten. From then on, he spent his spare time rapping out rap lyrics. So, he was never a Biggie Smalls or a Sean "Diddy" Combs -- his heroes -- but...

The Florida National Guard troops were wearing full battle rattle inside their Humvee hunting insurgents in rural Afghanistan when suddenly, from a distance, somebody opened up with small-arms fire, wounding an American soldier. The U.S. troops fired...