Coral Springs News

CORAL SPRINGS, Fla., Feb. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Point-of-Care Partners --a national healthcare information technology and strategy consulting firm--has just released a new white paper on prior authorization for medications, which is a trend to watch in 2012.

Just as it would be inaccurate to label Rick Springfield a one-hit wonder, you'd be just as wrong... Competition in the diabetic supply business led AmMed Direct LLC to give layoff notices to its 223 employees on Tuesday as it prepares to sell assets to a Florida-based competitor and then stop operating.

Looking to reduce a $66 million fine levied by the state for not meeting class size requirements, the Broward County School District turned to principals in December to develop plans at their schools to comply with the state limits.

Practical solutions for protecting computer data include developing a written information security plan, assessing data management requirements and developing a data breach plan, says a report on best practices issued by the Risk & Insurance Management Society Inc.

Sergio Ramirez said he was approaching the Sawgrass Expressway by Atlantic Boulevard in Coral Springs when he noticed a black-spotted pig running in the middle of the road.

Last week, the Internal Revenue Service announced that 105 people in 23 states had been targeted as part of a national identity theft crackdown involving the potential theft of thousands of identities and taxpayer refunds.

Clean Plate Charlie is pitting our eight best dining areas against each other in a March Madness-style bracket.

A spokesman for U.S. Sen. Bill Nelsonsaid Thursday that one of his Orlando staffers will try to help victims of ID theft who haven't been able to report to the Internal Revenue Service that fake tax returns had been filed using their identities.

The excitement had died down a bit by 10 a.m. in the hallway and the coaches had dispersed for the time being to various offices at Bill Brown Alumni Football Center.

Critical violations of state sanitation and safety laws observed by inspectors at five South Florida restaurants last week prompted the Florida Department of Business & Professional Regulation to cite the owners and briefly suspend their operations.

A Broward teenager is accusing a Fort Lauderdale youth pastor of sexually molesting him for the past 10 years, according to the Broward Sheriff's Office.

Local political blogger Javier Manjarres was in the thick of the heckling drama at the Newt Gingrich rally in Coral Springs yesterday, and claimed one of Gingrich's staffers "assault[ed]" him in the incident he caught on tape .

Foreign policy still lags far behind the discussion of domestic issues as the Republican candidates continue debating each other.

Foreign policy still lags far behind the discussion of domestic issues as the Republican candidates continue debating each other.

A Miramar Parent Teacher Student Association treasurer is the latest case of a trusted parent accused of stealing money painstakingly raised for students.

A Florida activist and former Lake Worth City Commission member engaged Newt Gingrich in a shouting match over his involvement with Freddie Mac at a Coral Springs campaign stop.

Republican presidential candidate and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, accompanied by his wife Callista, speaks Jan.

Somewhere in the history of politics, a candidate stopped for a bite to eat and was spotted by his adoring public....That was probably the watershed moment that began the tradition of restaurant stops.

After criss-crossing the state, the top two Republican presidential candidates will be in Miami-Dade and Broward on Wednesday attending several campaign events.

JACKSONVILLE - Florida Baptist officials are celebrating that during a year when the state's economy continued to struggle from the financial recession, churches gave $31,746,322 through the Cooperative Program in 2011, surpassing the budget of $31 million by $746,322 or 2.41 percent.