By Susan Jacobson, Orlando Sentinel8:08 p.m. EST, May 16, 2012 A man who was arrested last weekend on a charge of murdering his wife called 911 the evening of her death and told a dispatcher that he had punched and kicked her and couldn't wake her up, audio released Wednesday shows."I think my wife is dead, man," Guillermo "Willie" Cardona tells a dispatcher.The couple, who were living at the home of a widow and her son in the Conway neighborhood, had been fighting for two or three weeks, Cardona, 44, told the dispatcher.Cardona is a sex offender with a violent criminal history, records show."I was punching her and kicking her and she said her stomach was hurting," Cardona said.When he was transferred to a dispatcher ... Continue reading →

Greg Dawson, Working6:01 p.m. EST, May 15, 2012 An email pitching an interview with a sleep-disorder expert had me at, "Would you ever show up at work drunk?" The line would be too clever by half if it weren't so on-point. My answer, based on personal experience many years ago, is that anyone that drunk would have such an epic hangover they couldn't get out of bed much less go to work. Yet every day, people who are equally impaired by sleep deprivation usually drag themselves to work — which is not doing them or their employers any favors. A Harvard-led study estimated that poor job performance by sleep-deprived workers costs the economy more than $63 billion in lost productivity each year. "It's a huge ... Continue reading →

Critical violations of state sanitation and safety laws observed by inspectors last week at 10 South Florida restaurants included eight dining spots at the Bayside Marketplace outdoor mall in downtown Miami. Inspection results prompted the Florida Department of Business & Professional Regulation to cite the owners and briefly suspend their operations. Marie Balbuena, marketing director of Bayside, emailed the following statement: “The safety and well-being of our visitors are of paramount importance to us. Food vendors, whether at a mall or elsewhere, have a responsibility to operate under the highest of health and safety standards. Any time a violation or infraction is discovered, food vendors are required to take immediate corrective action. We support and cooperate fully with all health department inspections of food vendors.” ... Continue reading →

Kim Segal Kim is a journalist and a member of the Florida Bar. She maintains this travel website for fun. Continue reading →

TURTLES: Saw a bunch of them during my dive Boynton Beach, FL FRM: http://t.co/6nhzJZEg http://t.co/VlQvAzyk Continue reading →