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Officials: Statewide synthetic drug ring busted in Volusia County
A Volusia County-based drug ring responsible for distributing kilos of synthetic drugs across the state and country was dismantled by narcotics agents after a series of raids and arrests, state and county officials announced Thursday. Attorney General...Tags: Career and Workplace, Labor Legislation, Dwayne Johnson, Heroin, Ormond Beach
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Attorney general Bondi investigating Nationwide Pools
Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi's office has opened an investigation into a Pompano Beach-based pool company accused of leaving a trail of unfinished jobs. Some customers say Nationwide Pools Inc. took thousands of dollars but didn't complete the...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Boynton Beach, Pompano Beach, Justice System, Broward County
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AG Bondi goes after Urban Outfitters
TALLAHASSEE -- Don't look for Attorney General Pam Bondi to be shopping at Urban Outfitters this year. Bondi, and 21 other state attorneys general and the attorney general of Guam, wrote a letter to the Philadelphia-based retailer asking it to...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Lobbying, Prescription Drugs, Politics, Urban Outfitters Incorporated
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Floridians get so far more than $8.6B from mortgage settlement
Sun SentinelThe historic settlement involving the nation's five largest mortgage lenders has so far helped nearly 112,000 struggling Florida homeowners for an average $77,341 in relief, according to a new report released Tuesday. The relief so far totals more...Tags: Banking, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Human Interest, Mortgages, Bank of America Corp.
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Bondi urges aggrieved tea-party groups to call 1-866-9-NO-SCAM
Republican conservatives and tea partyers are in full cry in Washington at reports that the IRS held up -- and inappropriately questioned -- applications for tax-exemept status by groups with "tea party" or 9/12" or even "liberty" in their names. And some...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Department of Justice, Politics, Taxation
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Photos, Video: Florida Cabinet, on the road again
Orlando SentinelGovernor Rick Scott and his cabinet made one of their semi-regular road trips out of Tallahassee for a cabinet meeting, this time to Orlando's Lake Nona, at the Nemours Children's Hospital, Wednesday. Scott was joined by Attorney General Pam Bondi, CFO...Tags: Rick Scott, Jeffrey Atwater, Politics, Executive Branch, Lake Nona
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Douglas C. Lyons: State will go on break next year as politics trumps policy
Okay. State lawmakers obviously dropped the ball when it came to expanding health care by failing to take federal funding for Medicaid. Too close to Obamacare, a majority of Republicans in the Florida Legislature felt as they stood tall on partisan...Tags: Government Health Care, Rick Scott, Health Insurance, Political Fundraising, Republican Party
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Newborn exposure to prescription drugs on rise
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Florida officials are launching an initiative to tackle the growing problem of newborns exposed to prescription drugs. Newborns exposed to prescription drugs while in the womb suffer from Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome. Symptoms...Tags: Tampa, Prescription Drugs, Symptoms, Drugs and Medicines
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Single tip led to Osceola drug case with more than 400 suspects in 18 counties
In the fall of 2011, an anonymous tipster set off one of Central Florida's largest recent drug cases by reporting Kissimmee residents dealing prescription painkillers. Months earlier, the pills had become harder to obtain when a new state law started...Tags: Court Preliminary, Kissimmee, Methadone (drug), Osceola County, Justice System
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AG Bondi enlisting private sector to go after human trafficking
The News Service of FloridaTALLAHASSEE -- Attorney General Pam Bondi is enlisting private businesses to help combat human trafficking, in both the sex and labor industries. Bondi held a meeting with a group of business leaders in Tallahassee on Tuesday as her office establishes a...Tags: Career and Workplace, Rick Scott, Politics, Labor Legislation, Human Rights
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Pennsylvania swing state in ‘hot’ political race
Capitol IdeasYo! It’s no secret Attorney General Kathleen Kane has turned heads in Harrisburg since taking office in January. She closed a gun purchase loophole that allowed state residents, barred from getting handguns here, to apply for a permit in less-... -
Accused pill-mill docs keep getting wrist slaps
Last summer, after I wrote about prosecutors cutting a sweetheart deal with a doctor accused of writing prescriptions for more than 500,000 oxycodone pills, I heard from a lot of grief-struck parents. One woman mourned the suicide of her son, whose...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, OxyContin (drug), Justice System, Prosecution, Trials
May 30, 2013
|Story| Orlando Sentinel
May 25, 2013
|Story| South Florida Sun-Sentinel
May 22, 2013
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May 21, 2013
|Story| South Florida Sun-Sentinel
May 15, 2013
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May 8, 2013
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May 11, 2013
|Column| South Florida Sun-Sentinel
May 10, 2013
|Story| AP Broadcast
May 24, 2013
|Story| Orlando Sentinel
May 7, 2013
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Apr 23, 2013
| Allentown Morning Call
Mar 23, 2013
|Column| Orlando Sentinel
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