Kids or adults?
Lawmakers consider legal options
BY MARGIE MENZEL
THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA
TALLAHASSEE – Bills are moving in the House and Senate that would limit the ability...
THE GIFT OF LIFE
Florida Courier writer Penny Dickerson, a cancer survivor, reflects on her personal challenges and blessings during this year’s holiday season.
BY PENNY DICKERSON
The Florida Courier
Cancer...
Holiday party at the White House 2015
First Lady greets young guests
First Lady Michelle Obama speaks with military children as she hosts a preview of the 2015 holiday decor at the...
Congresswoman to revise federal redistricting challenge
NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA
U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown, a Jacksonville Democrat who has been perhaps the most-outspoken opponent of a congressional redistricting plan, will file...
Remembering Leander Shaw as justice and role model
BY MARGIE MENZEL
THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA
TALLAHASSEE – Former Chief Justice Leander Shaw, who died last week at age 85, lay in state Monday...
LEFT BEHIND
As the Florida Supreme Court wrestles with whether the state’s workers compensation law is constitutional, the Florida Courier begins a series of stories on...
CHRISTMAS 2015
The reason for the season
St. Ruth Missionary Baptist Church in Dania Beach (Broward County) continued its “Hope for the Holidays” tradition this year. As...
Old SunPass transponders going bye-bye
BY JIM TURNER
THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA
TALLAHASSEE –Time is running out for about 100,000 SunPass customers to convert, for free, to new transponders. Older,...
Leander J. Shaw Jr. dies
State’s first Black chief justice was 85
COMPILED FROM WIRE REPORTS
TALLAHASSEE – When Leander J. Shaw Jr. took the Florida Bar exam in 1960, he...
CHICAGO HYPOCRISY
Mayor Rahm Emanuel apologizes for the police killing of a Black teen, even as his lawyers convince a judge to keep video of a...
