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'Kill' bill an insult to justice, victims, public
BY FLORENCE BETH SNYDER "Beating Justice: The Martin Lee Anderson Story" should be required viewing for Rep. Rachel Burgin, R-Tampa, and Sen. Ellyn Bogdanoff, R-Fort Lauderdale, the sponsors of a misguided and pernicious change to Florida's
Updated: 04/13/2011 12:04A
Cannon reining in state's judicial branch
Cannon, a Winter Park Republican and attorney, says he wants to speed along justice, offer accountability to citizens and "add transparency to what is an obscure system." Retired Supreme Court Justice Gerald Kogan, appointed by Republican former Gov.
Updated: 04/13/2011 12:04A
Mexican workers sue Newport farm
By Ed Marcum Fifteen Mexican guestworkers have filed a lawsuit in federal court against Newport-based tomato grower Fish Farms, alleging a series of abuses including spraying pesticides near their trailers, subjecting them to inhumane working
Updated: 04/13/2011 12:04A
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Many have called it heresy due to its possible implications that all people will get to go to heaven when they die, regardless of their response (or even lack thereof) to Christ on earth. Shibley says people going to heaven isn't the problem: "I want
Updated: 04/13/2011 12:04A
Woman to serve 45-day term in jail for assault
Justice Michaela Murphy banned Marie R. Towers, 31, from contact with the victim -- her boyfriend -- until she completes an anger management course and gets court approval. "No calls, no e-mails, no texts," the judge told her. "If you see him,
Updated: 04/13/2011 12:03A
Japan raises rating of nuclear accident
Still, people living nearby who have endured a month of spewing radiation and frequent earthquakes said the change in status added to their unease despite government efforts to play down any notion that the crisis poses immediate health risks.
Updated: 04/13/2011 12:03A
More than one child abducted every week last year
The Minister for Justice, Equality and Defence, Alan Shatter said: "It is important at times of family conflict that estranged spouses and estranged parents seek to resolve differences by agreement . . . and do not unilaterally remove children."
Updated: 04/13/2011 12:03A
Solicitor denies mixing up nature of 25m Lynch loan
By Tim Healy A SOLICITOR denied he "mixed up" concepts over the nature of a 25m property development loan to businessman Philip Lynch, his family and property developer Gerry Conlan, the Commercial Court heard yesterday. Imdaad Sulaiman, a solicitor
Updated: 04/13/2011 12:03A
Wedding day drama as couple and guests take plunge
A BRIDE'S dream day almost turned into a nightmare after a freak accident while taking wedding photos on a wooden footbridge resulted in the entire party being dumped into a muddy stream. However, the wedding of Michael Hickey and
Updated: 04/13/2011 12:03A
Gardai vote for abolition of 'mollycoddled' Reserve
The association has been consistently opposed to the Reserve since it was established by then Justice Minister Michael McDowell in 2006. It is concerned that one of the motives behind its creation was to use the part-timers as substitutes for
Updated: 04/13/2011 12:03A
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