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Former FAMU student Rikki Wills pleads no contest in hazing case
Former FAMU drum major Rikki Wills, who insists that he tried to shield his college roommate Robert Champion from a brutal hazing in Orlando in 2011, pleaded no contest today to felony hazing resulting in death. Wills, 25, will not be sentenced until...
Tags: Orlando, Lawyers, Hazing, Orange County (Florida), Trials
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State high court hears clash over redistricting plans
TALLAHASSEE -- For more than a year, a quiet legal battle over the partisan intentions of Florida's Legislature and Fair Districts backers has been playing out over whether the state's re-drawn legislative and congressional district maps were designed...
Tags: Government, Crime, Law and Justice, National Government, Lawyers, Elections
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Florida Supreme Court hears redistricting challenge
Tallahassee Bureau ChiefTALLAHASSEE -- For more than a year, a quietly simmering legal battle over the partisan intentions of Florida's Legislature and Fair Districts backers has been playing out over whether the state's re-drawn maps are still designed to protect ruling...Tags: Trials, Government, Crime, Law and Justice, National Government, Lawyers
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FSU's athletic programs had nation's 13th-highest revenue in 2012
TALLAHASSEE -- Florida State was one of 13 schools that generated more than $100 million in revenue from its athletics department last year, according to a study released Wednesday by the USA Today. In a report that was tracking increases in subsidies,...
Tags: USA Today, Syracuse Orange, Services and Shopping, National Collegiate Athletic Association, Finance
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Teachers union plans new "legal challenge" to teacher evaluations
The Florida Education Association plans tomorrow to file a new legal challenge to Florida's new teacher evaluation system, a teacher union spokesman said. Mark Pudlow, the spokesman, said he could provide no other details until tomorrow. The union...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Academic Progress, Florida Legislature
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Charges against FSU sprinter and Olympian Josh Mance dropped by State
TALLAHASSEE -- Florida State sprinter and Olympian Josh Mance was cleared Tuesday of all charges pertaining to a gunplay incident last month that allegedly involved he and another FSU athlete. The state attorney's office submitted to Mance's attorneys...
Tags: Track and Field, Lawyers, Summer Olympics, Witnesses, Police Arrests
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FSU athlete Stephen Newbold denies firing gun in late-night incident
TALLAHASSEE -- Florida State sprinter Stephen Newbold and his attorney are joining fellow FSU track athlete Josh Mance in questioning a pair of Thursday arrests that came after an off-campus gunplay incident. Two days after being charged with...
Tags: Track and Field, Crime, Law and Justice, Lawyers, Tallahassee (Leon, Florida), Firearms
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FSU athlete Josh Mance, attorney question Olympian's arrest for fake ID
TALLAHASSEE — Florida State sprinter Josh Mance and his attorneys are questioning the Olympian’s felony arrest on charges of possessing a fake identification card and resisting arrest without violence following an off-campus gunfire incident....
Tags: Track and Field, Lawyers, Police Arrests, Trials, Crime, Law and Justice
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FSU track athletes arrested after off-campus gun incident
TALLAHASSEE -- Florida State track athletes Josh Mance and Stephen Newbold were involved in an off-campus shooting incident late Wednesday night, according to Tallahassee police. Although a gun went off, no one was actually shot. Mance, a 2012 Olympic...
Tags: Track and Field, Tallahassee (Leon, Florida), Florida State University, Florida State Seminoles, Witnesses
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1st DCA finds for Orbitz et al in bed-tax dispute
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando SentinelBy Jim Saunders, The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — Rejecting arguments that counties have been shortchanged, a state appeals court Thursday sided with the online-travel industry in a major legal battle about payment of hotel bed taxes. The... -
Clendenin running away with FDP chairmanship?
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando SentinelTALLAHASSEE — Leon County Democratic activist Jon Ausman last night sent out to reporters a spreadsheet tracking the announced endorsements for Alan Clendenin and Allison Tant in their race for the Florida Democratic Party chairmanship. It... -
Judge says state can’t privatize all prison health-care
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando SentinelBy Brandon Larrabee, The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — A judge struck down a decision by the Legislative Budget Commission to privatize health-care at prisons across most of the state, one of the first times a court has weighed in on the...
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