By NEETZAN ZIMMERMAN -- Controversial footage from a $50,000-a-plate Mitt Romney fundraiser that took place in May has already been viewed more times than any Romney campaign video currently on YouTube. http://gawker.com/5944349/secret-recording-of-mitt-romney-fundraiser-may-have-broken-florida-law … [Read more...]
Personal Injury Attorney Matt White Launches Spine Revitalizer
September 17, 2012 By
By DOTTIE PARIS, TFLJ Features Editor -- The expression "No Pain, No Gain" has a special meaning for personal injury lawyer Matt White. After suffering a debilitating back injury, White devoted every spare minute to research, and he created Spine Revitalizer, a nutraceutical product that helps heal those with similar injuries. "My injury was like an electric current that rushed up my back," White said. "It was terrible. I drove home and got out of the car and the minute I stood up, I knew something had happened. The pain would come and go. For a few weeks the pain go away, but it would come back. It got to the point where I remember being on the den floor and couldn't move." It got to the point where he couldn't pick up his baby, and that's when he went to talk to a surgeon. The prospects were not good. "After the surgeon told me … [Read more...]
FAMU faults Champion in his hazing death
September 11, 2012 By
ORLANDO SENTINEL -- Florida A&M University is not responsible for drum majorRobert Champion's hazing death, according to a court document filed Monday night. Champion himself is. In a 23-page motion seeking dismissal of a wrongful death lawsuit filed by Champion's family in Orange County circuit court, FAMU's attorneys laid out a blunt response: Champion was a 26-year-old leader in FAMU's famous marching band who knew the dangers of hazing. He had signed an anti-hazing pledge with the university months before he was beaten aboard a charter bus in Orlando last fall. He had witnessed two other students Read more http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2012-09-10/features/os-famu-hazing-champion-lawsuit-20120910_1_robert-champion-keon-hollis-christopher-chestnut … [Read more...]
Feds OK Florida early voting plan for 5 counties
September 6, 2012 By
TAMPA (AP) - U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder agreed Wednesday to accept Florida's revised early-voting plan for five counties covered by the federal Voting Rights Act. Holder filed his response with a three-judge panel in Washington, D.C. Last month, the panel ruled that a new Florida election law that reduced early voting to 8 days from as many as 14 violated the federal law in the designated counties because they could discourage minority voting. http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/story/19469661/2012/09/06/feds-ok-florida-early-voting-plan-for-5-counties … [Read more...]
