Category: Florida News

South Florida Sun-Sentinel–July 16, 2008 Gov. Charlie Crist is promising to work with Britain to develop clean energy technology and to prevent climate change. Crist and British Foreign and Commonwealth Office Minister Kim Howells watched in London on Tuesday as …

State Farm Florida has filed a request to increase its homeowners insurance premium rates by an average of 41.7 percent. To view a copy of the request, click here.  Media coverage of the issue is below.    Should you have …

  To view a complete story, click on a headline below:    Florida Insurance Commissioner McCarty Joins Gov. Crist in Meeting with Lloyd’s of London Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty today in London joined Gov. Charlie Crist and House Speaker …

Judith Leekin was sentenced Tuesday to nearly 11 years in prison for fraud in the adoption of 11 disabled children, who authorities say were confined and abused in her Port St. Lucie, Fla., home while she collected almost $1.7 million …

A woman from Trinidad who lied to adopt 11 disabled children whom authorities say she abused while she raked in more than one million dollars in subsidies was sentenced on Tuesday to nearly 11 years in prison.

Using four different aliases, Judith Leekin adopted 11 children—some with autism and other disabilities—-between 1988 and 1996 in New York City and moved them to Florida in 1998.

A woman who lied to adopt 11 disabled children whom authorities say she abused while she raked in more than $1 million in subsidies was sentenced Tuesday to nearly 11 years in prison.

A woman who lied to adopt 11 disabled children whom authorities say she abused while she raked in more than $1 million in subsidies was sentenced Tuesday to nearly 11 years in prison.

Calling a former Queens woman’s acts “diabolical in nature,” a federal judge in Manhattan sentenced her to more than 10 years in prison on Tuesday for a fraudulent scheme in which she adopted 11 disabled children under four aliases, while …