FL Debt Consolidation in Florida

The fate of the most emotionally charged issue on Florida's November ballot could hinge on a question of economics. Would constitutionally banning gay marriage threaten benefits for thousands of Floridians - gay, straight or even siblings living together - who depend on their domestic partnership to pay for health care? Amendment 2 supporters say no way. Amendment 2 opponents say absolutely. Passage of similarly worded gay marriage bans in other states have thrust domestic partner benefits into courtrooms. So far, one state's supreme court has ruled that the ban prevented public employers from granting domestic partner benefits, although affected employers created new legal avenues so that no employee lost benefits. Florida already bans gay marriage by state law. But supporters say they need the constitutional ban to prevent legislators from changing the law or judges from overturning the law, as happened in California this year.

Lixkarime Padilla's family loves South Florida, but high prices and the sour economy have them thinking it might be smart to move somewhere cheaper.

In a furious, multi-state campaign raging far from television cameras and cable TV chatter, scores of lawyers are arguing over the voting rights of perhaps millions of Americans who plan to cast ballots in the ...

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The Republican nominee for vice president, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, will join the Florida Ticket for Road to Victory Rallies in Clearwater and Fort Myers on Oct.

There's a bra bandit on the loose in southwest Florida. The Lee County Sheriff's Office is searching for an individual they say stole 160 bras valued at nearly $6,000 on Thursday from a Victoria Secret store, ...

Florida Republican leaders hastily convened a top secret meeting this week to grapple with Sen.

A federal jury convicted a purported member of the Gambino crime family and three other men of racketeering charges on Friday, the U.S. Attorney's Office said.

Oil industry experts Thursday discussed the benefits of drilling off Florida's Gulf Coast and the safety precautions that have been implemented to safeguard against spills.

Long before the debate over a federal bailout of the nation's financial institutions took center stage, sagging property values and soaring mortgage payments triggered in part by adjustable interest rates and ...

Bill Maher has taken his crusade against religion to the big screen. Maher, who has been picking on organized religion for years on his TV shows "Politically Incorrect" and "Real Time," zealously traveled the ...

A tipster led Florida wildlife investigators to a Jacksonville home where they found four American alligators and a crocodile.

Opening statements are scheduled to begin in the trial of a southwest Florida man charged with killing a young couple just days after Christmas nearly three years ago.

A climate change summit hosted by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission will begin Wednesday in Orlando .

As tourism industry leaders from the Florida Keys to the Panhandle met Thursday for a summit on offshore drilling, David Mattiford cleaned his fishing charter boat on the Destin Docks nearby and explained why ...

Florida officials say an Orlando woman is now officially a suspect in her 3-year-old daughter's disappearance.

Starting today, Florida courts will change the vocabulary of custody cases in an effort to change the outcome for the better.

MIAMI a ' A Florida law that would make it more expensive for travel agents to book trips to Cuba is likely unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.

Published: Wednesday, October 1, 2008 at 11:58 p.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, October 1, 2008 at 11:59 p.m. Jury selection has begun in the trial of a Southwest Florida man charged with killing a young couple ...

Three weeks after Florida began enforcing a controversial law to require tougher ID matches for would-be voters, registration applications from more than 5,000 Floridians have been held up, at least ...