For those of you who didn’t study Latin, annus horribilis means horrible year. That’s probably understating it a bit when it comes to the Catholic Church. In a year when church officials must be scratching their heads wondering what else can go wrong? something worse happens. Just before the Pope’s much publicized summit on clerical […]
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“This is the worst place I have ever been for base housing,” said Master Gunnery Sgt. Blaine Jones who is the first Marine selected to be the Joint Operations senior enlisted advisor for U.S. Central Command. He has also had nine combat deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq, earning a Bronze Star for valor. Both he
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With the threat of litigation hanging over their heads like the sword of Damocles, the Florida House’s Health and Human Services Committee has taken up debate on the controversial smoking ban. The ban is a result of Florida voters overwhelming approval of medical marijuana use for medicinal purposes in the last election. While the 2017
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A military appellate court has upheld a lower court’s ruling that a sailor sexually assaulted four women with whom he had consensual sex because he failed to disclose his HIV status. The appellate court last week affirmed an earlier ruling in the case, U.S. v. Forbes. The women could not provide “meaningful, informed consent” to
In the wake of the nationwide opioid epidemic, elected officials took measures to curb the ease of access to powerful and addictive drugs. Florida mandated that healthcare professionals such as doctors and dentists take continuing education courses on the proper prescribing methodology for opioids. Nearly 25% failed to comply with the law. The Florida Department
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For years, the “tough on crime” lobby has won the day in Tallahassee, often shooting down common sense measures that would serve justice and make the punishment actually fit the crime. Instead, we’ve got mandatory minimums and the judges hands are tied when it comes to sentencing. That may be changing. State Senator Jeff Brandes
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We know that military service members aren’t paid well. They join the service to serve their country and make many sacrifices to ensure the freedoms we take for granted. So when an issue arises that causes harm to them or their families, I pay attention and want to do something about it. A story in
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A Florida court has ordered Detroit Tigers star Miguel Cabrera to pay $20,000 a month in child support to an ex-mistress he fathered two children with and pay off her nearly $1-million mansion by July. He’d had an ongoing affair with the woman and supported her financially for years. When the wife found out, Cabrera
At least the Hillsborough County attorney’s office has admitted it doesn’t have enough evidence to try Dean McKee again for the 1987 murder of a homeless man in Tampa. Today, McKee is a free man but he spent 30 years in prison and the actual murderer is still free. The office of Hillsborough State Attorney
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Wrongful arrests or false arrests pertain to technical legal definitions concerning police behavior in detaining and arresting someone. There are very specific factors that make an arrest wrongful or false. There are two criteria which you would have to demonstrate in order to prove that you were arrested wrongly or falsely and those are: 1)you
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