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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: Politics, Human Rights, Labor Legislation, Rick Scott, Personal Service
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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: Justice System, Prosecution, OxyContin (drug), Lawyers, Punishment
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Orlando police employee honored for helping prevent domestic violence
Orlando police's Roland Clee can't forget the night a teenage girl became an instant orphan. The 13-year-old was hiding in the bathroom while her jealous father, Eligio Isalgue, shot to death her mother, Rosa Barrientos, in 2011. Then the girl told...
Tags: Abusive Behavior, Environmental Issues, Conservation, Murder, Human Interest
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Scott signs ban on 27 new synthetic drugs into law
Gov. Rick Scott signed a new ban on drugs such as K2, spice and bath salts Wednesday. The bill adds 27 new synthetic drug compounds to Florida statute and outlaws their sale or possession. The bill, sponsored by Sen. Rob Bradley, R-Orange Park, and...Tags: Politics, Bath Salt Drugs, Punishment, Government, Rick Scott
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Bondi files lawsuit against BP, Halliburton seeking $5.4 billion
Attorney General Pam Bondi said she filed a lawsuit against BP after the giant oil company did not respond to her proposed $5.4-billion settlement offer for damages caused by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill three years ago. “We complied with...Tags: Justice System, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill (2010), Oil Spills, Laws, Environmental Issues
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Florida Democrats are short on statewide candidates
Florida's largest political party has a problem. Although registered Democrats outnumber Republicans in Florida by 500,000, and President Barack Obama has carried the Sunshine State in the past two presidential elections, the party has no obvious...
Tags: Fort Lauderdale, Jeffrey Atwater, Bob Graham, Rick Scott, Alex Sink
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Despite tax-fattened coffers, lawmakers still raid housing fund
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando SentinelTALLAHASSEE – Despite a cash-flush budget that has policymakers considering a grab-bag of corporate and stadium incentives, Florida lawmakers are still raiding a fund created two decades ago to help provide low-income housing. And housing... -
RPOF announces major staff shakeups
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando SentinelTALLAHASSEE — The Republican Party of Florida announced some major staff departures and arrivals Friday, the biggest being that Executive Director Mike Grissom is leaving to take a job as political affairs director with the Florida Chamber of... -
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The Supreme Court must decide whether the Bible trumps our Constitution, as Speaker Boehner believes on homosexuality, or do we follow the principles in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Tax and other breaks for married couples...
Tags: Charlie Crist, Al Gore, Rick Scott, Crime, Law and Justice
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Democrat Thurston weighing Attorney General bid
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando SentinelBy Jennifer Curington TALLAHASSEE — House Democratic Leader Perry Thurston is weighing a potential run for Attorney General. Thurston is filing for state Senate in 2014, but still toying with the idea of switching to the race for Attorney General.... -
Bondi seeks exhumation of bodies at Dozier school campus
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando SentinelAttorney General Pam Bondi has sought a court order that would allow Jackson County's medical examiner to search for and exhume human remains on the grounds of the now-closed Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys in Marianna. Anthropologists from the...
May 7, 2013
| Orlando Sentinel
Apr 23, 2013
| Allentown Morning Call
Mar 23, 2013
|Column| Orlando Sentinel
May 4, 2013
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Apr 24, 2013
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Apr 23, 2013
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Apr 21, 2013
|Story| Orlando Sentinel
Apr 9, 2013
| Orlando Sentinel
Apr 5, 2013
| Orlando Sentinel
Mar 30, 2013
|Column| Orlando Sentinel
Jan 30, 2013
| Orlando Sentinel
Mar 12, 2013
| Orlando Sentinel
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