Those days of calling your bank to let them know that, yes, you really are in Thailand, and yes, you really did use your credit card to buy $200 in sarongs, may be coming to an end.

Tavares – A group of community members teamed up to help a bar owner get back on his feet after his establishment was vandalized with an anti-gay slur.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. says it opposes a new law in its home state of Arkansas to ban cities and counties from expanding anti-discrimination protections to include sexual orientation and gender identity.

Wal-Mart will try again Wednesday to get approval for its planned supercenter on Oakland Park Boulevard at Northeast Sixth Avenue, but it could face the same stumbling block that stymied its efforts in August.

Recently, the Paul James Salon moved from Downtown Fort Lauderdale to their new digs on Wilton Drive at the old location of Richard’s across from the Shoppes of Wilton Manors. Salon owners, Paul Stewart Huether and his partner J.C. Reigart, are “thrilled to be on the drive.”