Chinese Drywall Toxic?

TAMPA — Some homeowners dealing with defective Chinese drywall might be able to get some help from Hillsborough County. County commissioners Wednesday approved shifting $500,000 from money earmarked for blighted areas to replace drywall and other …

INDIAN RIVER COUNTY — More than 40 homes in the Antilles community north of Vero Beach on US 1 and hundreds more in the county have toxic Chinese drywall causing a variety of health and homeowner issues. US Congressman Bill Posey arranged to tour a few homes at the Antilles community Thursday to get a [...]

TAMPA Some homeowners dealing with defective Chinese drywall might be able to get some help from Hillsborough County.

12:14 P.M. — Lee County commissioners unanimously approved a resolution to ask Gov

Palm Beach County Commissioner Jess Santamaria blamed a perceived slight by Gov. Charlie Crist for keeping him away from the county’s lobbying trip to Tallahassee this week. Santamaria has been a past critic of county commissioners spending …

GREEN COVE SPRINGS, Fla. — A man who is a person of interest in the slaying of a 7-year-old girl has been extradited from Mississippi to Florida. Jarred Mitchell Harrell is jailed in Clay County on $1 million bond

FORT MYERS: At Saturday’s town hall meeting many people came out with shirts and some even brought in Chinese drywall to show their frustration. The meeting at the old Lee County courthouse was supposed to be a civil discussion, but tensions ran high …

Homes in at least 30 states have been built with drywall fabricated in China. Locally, homeowners in Newport News, James City County, York County, Williamsburg and South Hampton Roads have reported problems with the drywall, which emits a rotten egg …

Replacing defective Chinese drywall in South Florida should be considered an emergency deserving of federal help for local neighborhoods, Palm Beach County commissioners said Tuesday.

ST. LUCIE COUNTY, FL — Brian Sexton summed up quickly the problem with unknowingly buying a home with Chinese drywall