Miscellaneous

• Stay Put An Answer To Foreclosure?

  Eddie Farah | February 01, 2009 11:15 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  There is more and more conversation about this concept. As many Americans find they cannot stay in their homes because of job loss or a sub-prime loan that has now doubled, one Congresswoman is...

• Let The Games Begin - 709 Ballots Rejected So Far

  Eddie Farah | November 01, 2008 9:18 PM | 1 CommentJacksonville, FL

  Remember the hanging chads from the 2000 election and the dysfunctional voting machines that registered the exact opposite candidate than a person voted for in 2004? Florida is a battleground state...

• Angry Investors File Suit

  Eddie Farah | October 14, 2008 12:20 AM | 1 CommentJacksonville, FL

  A wave of class action lawsuits has begun by angry shareholders who invested in two mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. They allege that stock underwriters hid the true numbers on the...

• Couple Together 65 Years Die Together In Auto Accident

  Eddie Farah | October 09, 2008 12:03 AM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  James and Blanch Whiddon had been married for 65 years. They told relatives recently they could never live without each other. After a car accident, they died three days apart last week. James, 85,...

• “Daddy Quit Crying,” Girl Says To Dad Following Dog Bite

  Eddie Farah | July 10, 2008 8:30 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  “Daddy Quit Crying,” Girl Says To Dad Following Dog Bite By Eddie Farah on July 10, 2008 Last Saturday, over the July 4th holiday, 9-year-old Miranda Miller spent the day at a family friend’s...

• Florida Man Guilty of Mortgage Scam

  Eddie Farah | June 21, 2008 11:26 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  Florida Man Guilty of Mortgage Scam By Eddie Farah on June 21, 2008 A Florida man, Robert Guest, 44, of Orlando pled guilty in Alabama to one felony count of conspiracy in the scheme that...

• Prescriptions Killed More Floridians Than Street Drugs In 2007

  Eddie Farah | June 14, 2008 10:24 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  Prescriptions Killed More Than Street Drugs In 2007 By Eddie Farah on June 14, 2008 A report released this week by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the Florida Medical Examiner’s...

• State Farm Won't Write New Policies

  Eddie Farah | February 23, 2008 12:48 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  State Farm Insurance is Florida's largest private insurer writing policies to cover homeowners in case of loss.State Farm has decided to stop writing policies in Florida. Don't expect that to hurt the 1 million currently with a homeowner's policy covered by State Farm, but the state run insurer of last resort, Citizens Property Insurance will be expected to pick up the slack. If you want an...

• 73-Year-Old SUV Passenger Killed When Car Collides With School Bus

  Eddie Farah | January 19, 2008 9:30 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  Luckily no children were hurt on a school bus when it collided with an SUV on Thursday.But the passenger in the SUV was killed. 73-year-old John Robert Ryder of Zephyrhills, Florida was riding with driver, 70-year-old Carole Jean Ryder in Yulee Thursday afternoon.Her SUV turned in the path of an oncoming Nassau County school bus.It happened at the intersection of I-95 and SR A!A.Ryder was...

• JSO Officer Settles With State Over Crash

  Eddie Farah | January 09, 2008 2:49 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  He says he still can't feel his face. Jacksonville police officer James Brunet and another officer were injured the night of the Super Bown XXX!X when they were patrolling the St. Johns River working security. That dark February night three years ago, the boat they were in crashed into pilings from the old Fuller Warren Bridge.Brunet, 44, had seven surgeries, facial reconstruction and a...