Senate will try again to privatize prisons

From the News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — After being rebuffed by a judge for its effort to privatize several prisons because of the way lawmakers went about it, the Legislature will try again to shed several prisons, this time doing it in statute. The Senate Rules Committee on Friday Read More

Tuesday Morning Reads: Gambling lawsuit and problems in Florida’s police force

TALLAHASSEE — It’s a dreary Tuesday in the state capital city, but there’s plenty of news to read this morning. Here are the top five stories you should be reading. * The Sun-Sentinel reports that the state’s controversial stand-your-ground law was key in helping a Read More

Emboldened by Penn State Case, Two Men Allege Abuse by AAU Head

The Amateur Athletic Union has permanently removed Robert “Bobby” Dodd from the president’s post after two men accused him of sexually abusing them when they were teens, an AAU spokesman told ABC News.

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News of Henry Flagler’s death rediscovered years later

Lloyd Smith holds up the news article that his daughter Jeanette Hawkins found in his home last Wednesday.

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Report: Man beats girl to ‘teach respect’

Shaune Harito Johnson, 43, an investigator for a Tampa firm that searches for fugitives, wanted to teach a girl respect. Instead, he demonstrated in a very up close and personal way the horrors of domestic violence. Johnson handcuffed the girl to a chair, hit her legs with a buckled belt and Read More

Girl, 9, faces multiple felony charges after fit of rage on school bus

Think your job is tough? Imagine the workday of staffers at schools for exceptional children. Like this past Monday at Royal Palm Exceptional Center in Fort Myers. A 9-year-old female student at the school is accused of spitting at staff members, jumping off the school bus, then throwing large Read More

Potato salad rage leads to woman’s arrest

Karen Henry, 45, was so angry that her 80-year-old father told her she couldn’t eat his potato salad that she threatened him with a large kitchen knife, reports The Daytona Beach News-Journal. The Palm Coast woman is also accused of throwing and breaking items. Don’t get caught up in Read More

Potato salad rage leads to woman’s arrest

Karen Henry, 45, was so angry that her 80-year-old father told her she couldn’t eat his potato salad that she threatened him with a large kitchen knife, reports The Daytona Beach News-Journal. The Palm Coast woman is also accused of throwing and breaking items. Don’t get caught up in Read More