Ugly video of boot camp beating won't be released
posted by Mr.Orange 2203 days 12 hours 2 minutes ago
Legislators who have seen the tape say it's terrible to which the Bay County Sheriff Frank McKeithen issued a prepared statement accusing Barreiro and Gelber of overreacting with "irresponsible, premature and incorrect statements" that "add fuel to an already volatile situation." Ok Frank.
Explosion & Radiation Leak on Southside
posted by Mr.Orange 2214 days 1 hour 32 minutes ago
An explosion at a Southside company sent eight people to the hospital and another forty people through decontamination.
24 years stolen, but 'not bitter'
posted by Mr.Orange 2220 days 12 hours 22 minutes ago
Twenty-four years after he was sent to prison, a St. Petersburg man was set free, becoming the fifth long time convict in Florida exonerated by DNA evidence.
UF researcher's study challenges 10-20-Life rule
posted by Mr.Orange 2221 days 11 hours 33 minutes ago
Though well intentioned, the 10-20-Life law requiring mandatory sentences for using a gun during a crime has had no effect on the crime rate.
Death penalty law under scrutiny
posted by Mr.Orange 2227 days 11 hours 4 minutes ago
Some legal authorities, including the Florida Supreme Court, are suggesting Florida should consider requiring a unanimous jury recommendation in death cases to protect the state's death penalty law from future constitutional challenges. They say if the law isn't changed it may become more difficult for the state to sustain a death sentence in cases.
Cops were told 15-year-olds gun wasn't real
posted by Mr.Orange 2229 days 11 hours 47 minutes ago
The parents of a 15-year-old boy accused of terrorizing classmates with a pistol warned authorities the weapon likely was fake before police shot him in a middle school bathroom, a family attorney said Saturday.
Close juvenile boot camps, legislator says
posted by Mr.Orange 2232 days 11 hours 3 minutes ago
His proposal comes a week after a teen died after entering a Panhandle camp. But some lawmakers support the camps.
Orange County judge abruptly resigns
posted by Mr.Orange 2239 days 11 hours 41 minutes ago
"After discovering that Orange County Deputy Sheriff Mindy Hood was an unwed mother, Todd told her "it is acceptable for a male to have sex before marriage, but if a female does so, she is not respected and considered a tramp," according to a notice." Probably not appropriate workplace behaviour.
Report lists ways that mistreated kids die
posted by Mr.Orange 2240 days 8 hours 5 minutes ago
Drowning caused 22 of 111 deaths by abuse or neglect in Florida in 2004.
Top FSU linebacker accused of rape, suspended
posted by Mr.Orange 2245 days 11 hours 26 minutes ago
FSU coach Bobby Bowden said A.J. Nicholson will not participate with the team in the Orange Bowl.
Teenage son's journey to Iraq takes Florida mother by surprise
posted by Mr.Orange 2245 days 11 hours 28 minutes ago
A 16-year-old Florida boy who traveled to Iraq by himself wanted to experience the plight of its people firsthand and had asked his Iraq-born mother for months to take him to her homeland, she said on Thursday.
Hate crimes on rise in Florida
posted by Mr.Orange 2246 days 8 hours 46 minutes ago
State statistics show hate crimes increasing -- but it's unclear how many of the reported incidents have been prosecuted.
A determined search for fugitive
posted by Mr.Orange 2250 days 12 hours 2 minutes ago
As the manhunt for Reynaldo E. Rapalo continued, Miami beat cops juggled regular duties with the fugitive search -- on Christmas Eve.
Area lawmakers assail U.S. tracking of Quaker group
posted by Mr.Orange 2252 days 10 hours 33 minutes ago
U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler introduced a resolution of inquiry asking that the government provide detailed information about a secret Pentagon program that tracked people in a Lake Worth activist group.
Legislators wary of corrections spending
posted by Mr.Orange 2255 days 8 hours 58 minutes ago
Following a string of scandals in Florida's prisons and juvenile justice system, House lawmakers will be keeping a closer eye on the dollars going to the courts and corrections systems.
Lauderdale police try to recruit more gay officers
posted by Mr.Orange 2255 days 23 hours 58 minutes ago
The department has begun running advertising targeted to a gay and lesbian audience, hoping to add diversity to the ranks. The department also will have its first booth at the next gay Pridefest here, officials said.