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    Janie Campbell

    Janie Campbell

    Senior Editor, Life (Money, Home & Living, Work/Life)

  • Lost Your Job Due To Coronavirus? Here's What You Need To Know

    Unemployment and layoffs are rampant thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic. Here's what to do if you lose work and need unemployment, health insurance and other resources.

  • USPS's Informed Delivery Service Shows You Your Mail Before It's Even Delivered

    Get a morning email that lists the letters and bills you'll receive later in the day.

  • LOOK: The First Same-Sex Weddings In Florida

    Some 37 years after Miami-Dade County saw?one of the most notorious and vitriolic anti-gay legislative campaigns?in U.S. history,?the area has become the first place in Florida to allow same-sex marriages. A judge on Monday lifted a legal stay for Miami-Dade hours before same-sex marriage was set to become legal across the state at midnight on Tuesday. Among couples who lined up Monday afternoon in Miami for marriage licenses were several who served as plaintiffs in a lawsuit that led?a judge to rule in August that Florida's 2008 ban on same-sex marriage was discriminatory.

  • Florida Gets Four More Years Of Rick Scott

    Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R)?narrowly defeated?former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist (D) in one of the nation's most competitive gubernatorial contests Tuesday. Scott, a former healthcare executive who was first elected in 2010, was considered one of the country's most?vulnerable?governors after years of low approval ratings. Crist switched to the Democratic Party in December of 2012 after having identified as a Republican for decades.

  • Group Suggests Medical Marijuana Will Lead To Date Rape By Pot Cookie

    There's been a lot of chatter about Florida's upcoming vote on medical marijuana legalization bill, Amendment 2. "Will the new face of 'date rape' look like a cookie?" the ad asks, showing a man and woman facing a picnic table holding a plate of chocolate chip cookies. “I think any woman should find that offensive to somehow suggest that if you use medical marijuana to deal with a health issue that you’re trying to deal with that somehow that’s going to make you more susceptible to rape," he added.

  • GOP Challenger Wants To Spank Rick Scott With A Flip-Flop

    Incumbent Gov. Rick Scott is expected to sail through the Florida Republican gubernatorial primary in August, but he might want to sleep with one eye open. A fellow party member has her eye on Tallahassee and her?grip on a shoe meant for Scott. At a campaign forum in Fort Lauderdale Wednesday, Elizabeth Cuevas-Neunder -- one of a few Republicans hoping to steal the party's nomination from Scott -- brandished a flip-flop in the air and said she wants to "discipline" the governor with it.

  • GOP Billionaire Wants To Fly Nation's Tallest American Flag Over Miami

    Mike Fernandez, a Cuban-American billionaire who famously feuded with the re-election campaign of Florida Governor Rick Scott (R), is?offering to fund the $5-10 million flagpole project, according to WSVN. The Miami Herald reports the idea was inspired by?a 400-foot flag that the insurance company Acuity erected over its Wisconsin offices. “It's kind of a symbol to the world that Hispanic Americans, we're not just proud of our Cuban heritage, but we're also proud of our American heritage,”?Miami City Commissioner Francis Suarez told the Herald.

  • After Rick Scott's Secret Trip, Guess Who Got A Post?

    A month after Gov. Rick Scott took a secret hunting trip to the King Ranch in Texas last year, he faced a big decision. A seat had come open on the board that oversees Florida's efforts on the multi-billion-dollar project to repair damage to the Everglades caused by agriculture.

  • LOOK: 'Monster' Alligator Fight Captured In Grisly Photos

    One such instance of gator-on-gator violence was captured in stunning photos by Tampa amateur?photographer Neil A. Furlong, who witnessed a bull gator -- a large, dominant male -- utterly destroy a smaller alligator estimated to be about eight feet long. "Monster Gator!!!" Furlong posted on Facebook, explaining that after the bull gator chomped the smaller one in two, it then slammed the bottom half of the carcass against the water to rip out a piece of meat. Furlong had been photographing birds at the?Circle B Bar Reserve, a former cattle ranch turned wildlife-filled nature preserve, when he heard a splash and turned his camera to the water.

  • American Eagle Rips Off Street Artist In Painfully Obvious Way

    According to?a lawsuit filed last week in federal court, the teen clothier is guilty of "blatant, unlawful and pervasive infringement" for using Ahol's eyeballs motif in advertising on its website, social media pages, targeted marketing, a billboard in downtown New York City, and store displays from Tokyo to Panama. Become a founding member of HuffPost Plus today. Ahol's eyeballs first made their way into American Eagle imagery when the company held a March photo shoot in Miami's Wynwood Arts District, where the walls of neighborhood buildings are covered in commissioned street art from the likes of?Shephard Fairey,?Ryan McGuinness, Retna, Kenny Scharf, and locals like Ahol.

  • A Majority Of Florida Voters Support Legalizing Recreational Marijuana

    Florida residents don't just love medical marijuana, they support legalizing the recreational use of it, too. According to a Quinnipiac University poll released Monday, a whopping?88 percent of residents support legalized marijuana for medical use, with the number in favor reaching as high as 95 percent among voters 29 and under. "Forget the stereotypes of stodgy old folks living out their golden years playing canasta and golf," Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University poll, said in a statement.

  • Bikini Secrets From Miami Swim Week's Top Designers

    You never know who you'll run into at?Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Swim?in Miami Beach. New York Fashion Week's?scantily-clad little sister?features four straight days of runway shows, presentations, trade shows and endless industry parties, all focused on one thing -- bikinis. Tori Praver: You definitely don't want it to be too tight or cutting into the skin or bulging.

  • Florida Fisherman Catches Stingray Giving Birth, And It's Super Cool

    Floridians run across the strangest stuff in Sunshine State waters: rare goblin sharks, a mysterious giant eyeball, massive squid, rocket parts, long-lost treasure, and hard-to-identify creatures of the deep. Still, Calvin Conger didn't expect to witness anything weird when fishing with his family off Port Charlotte. But then he hooked a stingray, and when he laid it out on the boat, the Conger family noticed something unusual: a smaller stingray was wriggling half in and out of its mother.

  • Charlie Crist Picks A Running Mate

    Former Florida Governor Charlie Crist has picked a running mate in his bid to re-take the state's top office -- and, like incumbent governor Rick Scott (R), he chose an experienced Hispanic political operative from populous South Florida. Crist introduced Annette Taddeo Goldstein as his running mate Thursday morning at a campaign event in Miami, calling the well-liked local party chair “a remarkable woman and a classic American success story. Taddeo, who was born on a U.S. military base in Colombia to an American father and a Colombian mother, moved to Miami at 17.

  • These Vintage Photos Prove Publix Has Always Been Awesome

    When a grocery chain has reached bumper sticker status, you know it's golden.

  • Alex Morgan Talks World Cup, Wedding Planning, And Yoga On The Road

    Alex Morgan?is everywhere: from winning Olympic gold with the U.S. women's soccer team to beaming on?your box of Cocoa Pebbles?to making the?New York Times' bestsellers list?to?posing for Sports Illustrated's swimsuit issue. Then it's back to Oregon with the Portland Thorns of the National Women's Soccer League, before training begins in earnest for the 2015 Women's World Cup in Canada. "I'm really happy with where our team is right now," she says of the U.S., who aim to win their first World Cup since 1999.

  • The Saddest World Cup Fans On Earth

    Listen, world: we feel you. We remember the terrible, growing hole of sadness that gnawed away more and more of our soul while the U.S. crashed out of the World Cup in 2006. It felt like it would take at least two days before emotional eating (cheese pizza, mostly) would help us feel whole again!

  • PHOTOS: The USA Fans In Brazil Were AMAZING

    From sea to shining border with Peru, fans of the U.S. men's national team are representing for all of us at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. Time for a new narrative, haters.

  • Think You're A Good Sports Fan? Japan Has You Beat.

    Do you fancy yourself a good sports fan? Show up to games and color-coordinate your clothes? Own a replica jersey and maybe once made a sign?

  • LOOK: The Most Incredible Photos From The 2014 World Cup

    There's nothing like the FIFA World Cup, and these are the dramatic images that prove no other sporting event has this kind of impact. Some of the world's best news photographers have descended upon Brazil alongside the world's best soccer players, and their work has captured just how big, how magical -- and how controversial -- this year's tournament has become already.