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Short seller Andrew Left charged with fraud by prosecutors, SEC
Federal prosecutors criminally charged the well-known short seller Andrew Left with securities fraud related to allegedly using his public platform to illegally profit from manipulating stock market activity. Left and his firm Citron Capital also were separately charged in a civil fraud action by the Securities and Exchange Commission, which...
Palm Beach County housing crisis squeezing blue-collar workers out of two Hispanic cities
GREENACRES — Welcome to a land where time stood still, whose problems capture Palm Beach County's crucial question — Who can afford to live here? — and whose future raises issues about its blue-collar workforce. Few parts of the county have changed as much in the past 30 years as Greenacres and Palm...
New community-funded kosher room aims to support Jewish traditions at PBC hospital
DELRAY BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) — Palm Beach County has a very large Jewish community, especially in the southern part around Delray Beach, Boynton Beach, and Boca Raton. Meeting the needs for the Jewish community is a top priority for certain establishments, including hospitals like Delray Medical Center. That's why thanks to one couple and some staff there, a new hospitality room that caters to Jewish patients just opened.
Florida’s back-to-school tax-free shopping holiday approaching
PANAMA CITY, Fla. (WMBB) – Florida’s back-to-school tax-free shopping holiday begins next Monday, July 29. Shoppers can buy individual school supply items for less than $50, learning aids for under $30, clothes and shoes for less than $100, and electronics for less than $1500 all without paying sales taxes. The holiday runs until August 11. […]
Audubon Celebrates new islands in its Florida Coastal Islands Sanctuaries System
A generous donation from Mahaffey Management, LLC, adds three mangrove spoil islands to the Florida Coastal Islands Sanctuaries System and brings the total number of islands up to 28. The islands, spread across Tampa and Sarasota bays, host thousands of breeding pairs of 29 species – among the largest and most diverse coastal bird populations in the state.
Casey’s buys nearly 200 stores in Texas, Alabama, Florida and Mississippi
(Radio Iowa) – The Ankeny-based Casey’s convenience store officially announced the acquisition today (Friday) of 198 stores in the southern U-S that includes 148 in Texas and 50 in Alabama, Florida, and Mississippi. . Casey’s is purchasing the CEFCO convenience stores for more than $1.145-BILLION dollars. Casey’s C-E-O Darin Rebelez talked about the purchase in a conference call for investors. “This acquisition will quickly expand Casey’s presence in Texas, a very attractive market for Casey’s, in addition we’ll be able to expand our footprint further into the South as well,” he says.
Biden’s big lead shutting down two contests could seal deal for Harris
President Joe Biden was so widely viewed as the presumptive nominee for the Democratic Party that two states did not hold primaries earlier this year, and that decision could help seal the deal quicker for Vice President Kamala Harris to get the party’s presidential nomination. Harris is poised to win the party’s nomination at a […]
US indicts Andrew Left in $16 million stock market manipulation scheme
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A federal grand jury has indicted prominent activist short seller Andrew Left on multiple counts of securities fraud for a long-running $16 million market manipulation scheme, the U.S. Justice Department said on Friday.
Trump calls Kamala Harris’s Israel remarks ‘disrespectful’ as he cozies up to Netanyahu at Mar-a-Lago
Former President Donald Trump hit out at Vice President Kamala Harris for her insistence that Israel should avoid civilian casualties and allow Palestinians access to humanitarian aid as he hosted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Mar-a-Lago on Friday. In video released by Trump’s presidential campaign, the Israeli leader was greeted...
Some changes in our weather pattern this weekend
SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - High pressure will move right over the top of central Florida as a front moves into N. Florida. This high pressure system will mean very light winds throughout the day which will allow a sea breeze or west wind to develop in the early afternoon. This along with some additional moisture will bring showers and thunderstorms once again to the area. Now the rain chance is at 50%, meaning not everyone is going to see these pop-up storms during the mid afternoon through the early evening.
How do you keep safe from lightning during Tampa Bay’s thunderstorms?
Thunderstorms roll through Tampa Bay during summer months like clockwork: Sometime usually between 4 and 7 p.m., dark clouds form, rain pours down, thunder claps — and lightning strikes. Florida sees millions of strikes a year. On Thursday evening, four teens were struck by lightning while standing under a...
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