The state Department of Children & Families will no longer document whether prospective foster parents own a gun. ...more

December 22, 2009

A former auto mechanic found guilty of strangling 11-year-old Carlie Brucia, whose abduction was captured by a security camera, lost an appeal of his murder conviction and death sentence this week in the Florida Supreme Court. ...more

December 19, 2009

The man accused of killing a 3-month-old boy and tossing him out of a car had to be removed from court Friday after an outburst during a routine hearing. ...more

December 12, 2009

The man accused of killing a 3-month-old boy and tossing him out of a car had to be removed from court today after an outburst during a routine hearing. ...more

December 11, 2009

WASHINGTON (AP) — A seemingly divided Supreme Court wrestled today with whether teenagers can be locked away forever for their crimes. ...more

November 9, 2009

At his invitation I re-read Jim Gries' letter twice with my reading glasses to make sure I didn't miss a punctuation mark which may have slanted my interpretation of his context. I still found it arrogant and insulting and pointedly left leaning. Picture this, Jim, me standing here with my right hand raised and my left hand on the Bible and my swearing that I haven't listened to Rush Limbaugh, Kieth Oberman or Chris Matthews once in the last six or seven years and I never even heard of "Local Bob" whoever he is. I confess I have watched the Sean Hannity TV show two or three times in the last five years, and you are right ... he is a screechingly repetitious bloviator, but amazingly, listening to him did not cause my gray matter to turn into a gelatinous blob and come oozing out of my cranial orifaces! Maybe they all are bloviators. Who cares. It's their constitutional right to be, just as it's yours to disparage them for it, and mine to flip it back at you. I don't care for the opinions of any of them; but I guess because you include Chris Mathews that makes your attitude fair and balanced. Neither do I really care much about who is on your list so much as I do that you have a list in the first place. ...more

November 6, 2009

I firmly believe that consumers should have the right to buy and consume raw milk as a basic freedom right and a constitutional right to choose for ourselves. ...more

June 11, 2009

No one wants to see the return of the day when Florida businesses were bombarded by crippling workers' compensation claims. But reforms adopted by the Legislature in 2003, as the state Supreme Court found, went too far. ...more

March 4, 2009

Florida House Speaker Ray Sansom said Gov. Charlie Crist should suggest ways to offset any items he vetoes in a deficit-elimination package when he submits his recommendations for the next state budget. ...more

January 22, 2009

The criminal contempt case against Sami Al-Arian may collapse because of the actions of the federal prosecutor who brought the charges in Virginia, two law professors say. ...more

December 21, 2008