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GOLF DIGEST INVESTIGATION SETS MAN FREE AFTER 27 YEARS IN PRISON
Recently, a New York post-conviction case made international headlines and offered a fascinating story of man wrongfully imprisoned for a crime another man committed. The guilty man had already confessed to the crime years earlier. The New York man now set free was using his artistic talent drawing golf courses while incarcerated when good… Read More »
Near-Fatal Pedestrian Wreck In Tampa
Investigators believe that a 76-year-old driver may have suffered a medical episode shortly before he plowed into two people on the sidewalk, sending one to the hospital with serious injuries. Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Deputies believe that the 74-year-old driver had a medical episode as he pulled out of a YMCA parking lot, causing him… Read More »
Regulators Pull Blood Pressure Medicine Off Tampa Shelves
Both the United States Food and Drug Administration and its foreign counterparts suspended sales of some Valsartan pills, after some tested positive for the deadly poison N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA). Most of the contaminated pills came from Zhejiang Huahai Pharmaceuticals, which is based in Linhai, China. Zhejiang is one of the world’s leading suppliers of the… Read More »
Fatal Road Rage Crash In Bartow
An apparent disagreement between two frustrated motorists ended in tragedy, as authorities found a man dead in his pickup truck. According to witnesses and the Polk County Sheriff’s Office, a 22-year-old man and a 27-year-old man were weaving in and out of traffic on southbound U.S. Highway 98. As tensions escalated, the former apparently… Read More »
Spate Of Swimming Pool Drownings Prompts Public Warning
During the weekend after July Fourth, two children drowned and another was seriously injured in three separate swimming pool incidents. In one incident, witnesses found a 5-year-old girl face down in the Harbor Lakes Resort pool. First responders rushed her to a nearby hospital, but she did not survive her injuries. A similar incident… Read More »
Tampa Car Crash Kills Puppy
A chain-reaction car wreck seriously injured two people and killed a two-month-old family dog. This crash happened on the Courtney Campbell Causeway. According to investigators, an emotionally-distraught driver smacked into a concrete median. Five other vehicles then crashed into the wreckage. Two people were seriously injured in the pile-up wreck. One vehicle also contained… Read More »
AAP UPDATED CAR SEAT REGULATIONS; HERE’S WHAT PARENTS NEED TO KNOW
Car seat safety is a very important topic, and one that the majority of parents pay close attention to. We’ve come a really long way since the days of our childhoods, when car seats were sort of an afterthought, or worse, so poorly designed that they made riding in a car MORE dangerous. Today’s… Read More »
Search Warrant Requirements In Florida Drug Trafficking Cases
Most federal drug trafficking prosecutions are huge cases which involve multiple law enforcement agencies. Given the size of the investment, law enforcement sometimes cuts corners to make an arrest. These shortcuts often come during the search warrant phase. The Fourth Amendment lays out some general requirements for search warrants. But the Founding Fathers left… Read More »
EXPLOSIVE LETTER ON SEXUAL ABUSE ROCKS POPE FRANCIS AND CATHOLIC CHURCH
Over the last couple decades countless horrific crimes have been uncovered of sexual abuse of children at the hands of Catholic priests worldwide. The world has been both shocked and disgusted. As a result, a multitude of the Catholic faithful have now sincerely called into question their allegiance to the church in Rome and… Read More »
Fatal Head-On Crash In New Port Richey
A three-car crash killed a teenage driver near the intersection of Moon Lake and Oconee. According to the Florida Highway Patrol, a 19-year-old woman was northbound on Moon Lake in a 2008 Hyundai Accent. A 25-year-old woman was in a GMC Sierra waiting to cross Moon Lake and turn left. As she waited, a… Read More »
