FREE – AND HIDING
Here’s an update on the George Zimmerman trial as of the Florida Courier’s press time on Wednesday night. Zimmerman out George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer who shot and killed an unarmed teen, Trayvon Martin, was released from the Sanford Jail on a $150,000 bond about midnight Sunday. Zimmerman had to post 10 percent, or [...]
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA / CAMPAIGN 2012
Obama’s eyes and ears Secret Service agents surrounded President Obama as he visited the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill on Tuesday. (CHUCK LIDDY/RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER/MCT)
Carroll leads diverse ‘Stand Your Ground’ group
COMPILED FROM STAFF REPORTS Last week, Gov. Rick Scott named the members of a task force – including prosecutors and defense attorneys, women and men, Blacks, Whites and Hispanics, and gun control opponents and advocates – formed to look at the state’s self-defense law in the wake of Trayvon Martin’s shooting death on Feb. 26. [...]
States settle with MetLife over burial insurance
COMPILED FROM STAFF REPORTS Metropolitan Life insurance companies will pay nearly $500 million in benefits on small-value life insurance policies – often sold door-to-door in Black communities around America – under an agreement reached between Florida and 29 other states. MetLife is the latest insurer to come to agreement over the sale of industrial policies, [...]
Gulf regions rebound two years after spill
BP settlement estimated to cost company $7.8 billion BY MICHAEL PELTIER THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA TALLAHASSEE – Two years after an explosion killed 11 workers and sent oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico, BP has paid nearly $2.7 billion in claims to Florida businesses and individuals for damages caused by the worst spill [...]
Recession forces violence shelters to turn victims away
BY MARGIE MENZEL THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA TALLAHASSEE – A perfect storm of slashed funding, strapped donors, underwater mortgages and high unemployment is causing battered women’s shelters to turn victims away at a time when the need may is greater than usual. Domestic violence has risen during the economic downturn, and services are eroding. [...]
FLORIDA BRIEFS
Florida House drops Amendment 6 challenge The House will not appeal a federal court decision upholding new state standards for drawing congressional districts, a spokeswoman for Speaker Dean Cannon, R-Winter Park, confirmed last week. The lawsuit, started by Republican Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart and Democratic Congresswoman Corrine Brown, had argued that the state constitution could not [...]
African scholars: Too much focus on continent’s crises
Western journalists accused of rarely reporting on uplifting stories BY NADRA KAREEM NITTLE SPECIAL TO THE NNPA The media coverage of Africa: Impoverished. Corrupt. Helpless. That’s how Western mainstream media often portray nations of Africa. Rarely do broadcast and print news agencies report uplifting stories, instead favoring sensational tales that frequently depict Africa as a [...]
Why ‘Negroes’ should get guns
ANN COULTER GUEST COLUMNIST Liberals have leapt on the shooting death of Trayvon Martin to push for the repeal of “Stand Your Ground” laws and to demand tighter gun control. (MSNBC’S Karen Finney blamed “the same people who stymied gun regulation at every point.”) This would be like demanding more funding for the General Services [...]
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‘Stand Your Ground’ panel – If you don’t think Rick Scott has morphed from businessman to politician, think again. I’m seeing reports about how he “loves this job” and expects to keep it without spending $75 million of his own cash during the 2014 election. Polls indicate that Florida is split on Stand Your Ground, [...]
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