According to the Friday report of Florida Agency for Workforce Innovation, the state's unemployment rate for the month of April dropped to 9.6 percent from the seasonally-adjusted March unemployment rate of 9.8 percent - thereby indicating a fall of two-tenths of a percentage point!

Carnival Corp. & PLC, the world’s largest cruise operator, said on Monday it expects second-quarter and 2009 earnings to be impacted by swine flu.

“Enjoy!” says N-Joy to all the cigarette smokers. The company currently markets the e-cigarette that does not contain any tobacco or other harmful carcinogens that are normally associated with the regular cancer causing stick. The new e-cigarettes will also allow the smokers to have a smoke even on airplanes and in some restaurants.

With the space shuttle Atlantis “all set” for its scheduled Monday afternoon take-off, the countdown for NASA’s final servicing trip to the Hubble Space Telescope – which has not had any ‘visitor’ in the past seven years – has begun at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center!

According to a statement from the US Attorney's office, WellCare Health Plans Inc. - charged in a plot to defraud the Florida Medicaid program and the Florida Healthy Kids Corp, since 2007 - has agreed to pay the office $80 million as part of a deferred prosecution agreement.

Ending a week-long lobbying and negotiations between the House and Senate, the lawmakers in Florida finally arrived on a consensus on Friday, whereby they consented on the decision of allowing a maximum of 10 percent annual increase in Citizens Insurance premiums. The bill, which has been sent for Gov. Charlie Crist's approval, will take effect this year onwards.

Guidelines recently made public by the American Academy of Neurology and American Epilepsy Society reveal that epilepsy does not cause any complications in pregnancy or childbirth.

With an overwhelming majority vote, 105-13, the lawmakers in Florida have passed a bill that frees property insurance companies with large reserves from most state rate regulation - the move marking the state's big leap towards an extensive revamping of the property insurance market of the state.

Just fifteen minutes before the space shuttle Discovery was to re-enter the atmosphere of Earth, NASA called off the landing of the shuttle, due to unfriendly weather and strong winds, but ultimately, the space shuttle Discovery did land safely, beating the weather, at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida on Saturday.

The mission of the space shuttle Discovery is almost accomplished! The space shuttle Discovery, carrying the crew of seven astronauts, is heading back towards Earth! The US space agency NASA reported that the astronauts on Friday checked out the space shuttle Discovery's flight systems to ensure a safe landing at its spaceport.