Democrats attack Bondi over gay-marriage fight
TALLAHASSEE — Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi has used her first term in office to go on the offensive against synthetic drugs, prescription-pill mills and human trafficking. But all summer, she has...
View ArticleNeo-Nazi death-threat suspect from Virginia on trial in Orlando court
FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force Agent Kelly Boaz is a veteran of undercover cases involving narcotics rings and hate groups, but said Tuesday that a 2012 emailed threat against his family was like...
View ArticleAmerican Front domestic terrorism trial begins in Kissimmee
KISSIMMEE – Once facing possible life in prison, American Front leader Marcus Faella turned down a prosecution offer Tuesday to plead guilty to a crime routinely carrying a three-year sentence. He...
View ArticleOrlando airport turns down PETA ad attacking SeaWorld
Animal-rights group PETA wants to pay for advertising inside Orlando International Airport to attack SeaWorld's use of killer whales, but the airport won't clear it for takeoff. The ad, depicting a...
View ArticleAmerican Front leader turns down plea deal
KISSIMMEE – More than two years after the feds arrested the leader of a white-supremacy group in Central Florida's largest domestic-terrorism case, the trial for American Front leader Marcus Faella...
View ArticlePlancher attorneys argue appeal court made flawed decision
Attorneys representing the family of former UCF football player Ereck Plancher argued a lower court decision was deeply flawed, according to a brief filed Monday with the Florida Supreme Court. The...
View ArticleDrum major Robert Champion's parents settle with bus company, driver in FAMU...
The parents of FAMU drum major Robert Champion have settled the wrongful-death lawsuit against the company that owned the bus on which their son was beaten during a band hazing in Orlando before he was...
View ArticleCasey Anthony: Jose Baez talks to WFTV
Here's a chat that should fascinate anyone who followed the Casey Anthony trial: Defense attorney Jose Baez sits for an interview with Greg Warmoth on WFTV-Channel 9's "Central Florida Spotlight." Baez...
View ArticleOrange County settles with victims in home confinement scandal
Orange County has settled a civil case with the families of three victims shot in a home invasion two years ago by an assailant accused of trying to silence two of them in a previous case. Bessman...
View ArticlePaid FBI informant testifies in trial of white-supremacy leader
KISSIMMEE — The state's star witness in Central Florida's largest domestic-terrorism case couldn't remember anything particularly violent or damaging about accused American Front leader Marcus Faella...
View ArticleTrial continues in white supremacist death-threat case
When Central Florida law enforcers received threatening emails in May 2012, demanding the release of recently arrested members of a white supremacist group, their origin was difficult to trace...
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