An 86-year-old sugar mill worker in Florida who had been on the job for more than three decades shot and killed his boss Friday morning after he was told his services were no longer needed, ...
Coming off a pivotal legislative session and heading into election season, Florida’s largest sugar growers have given more than $6 million in campaign contributions to state races and thousands more ...
PAHOKEE, Fla. (AP) — For residents of the Glades, a string of poor, predominantly African American rural towns dotting the southern shore of Florida’s Lake Okeechobee, the beginning of the annual ...
The ruling asks a customer to hone her class-action complaint against Florida Crystals for advertising its products as climate-friendly.
A $12 billion bailout for farmers includes $1 billion for specialty crop and sugar growers. That addresses a concern raised ...
When Florida's pre-harvest sugar cane burning season began on Oct. 3 with fires across 160 acres of land, the state's department of agriculture, which authorizes the blazes, proclaimed the day the ...
Former Florida Gov. Claude Kirk had been out of office for 25 years when in 1995, with Glades area residents, he sued local sugar companies in Palm Beach County Circuit Court seeking to ban practices ...
The most satisfying aspect of the contentious elections in Florida may be the thorough drubbing of heavily subsidized Big Sugar, and the exposure of yet another feared special interest as a paper ...
A woman in Florida went to a local board meeting to advocate for a new "Sugar Daddy-Mommy Appreciation Day." The woman, who identified herself as Ashley Cream, said at the Boca Raton, Florida, ...
Florida’s U.S. Sugar completes purchase of competitor even as feds fight merger on antitrust grounds
U.S. Sugar Corp. has completed a $315 million purchase of another large player in the sugar industry as the federal government continues to fight the merger on antitrust grounds. Attorneys for ...
As Florida gubernatorial primaries ramp up, candidates are making an issue of campaign contributions from the sugar industry. Both parties' members have accepted them for decades, and critics say that ...
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