In recent years, an amazing number of sitting and former state House speakers have run into serious legal troubles, and as The Detroit Free Press reported, the list grew a little longer yesterday. The Free Press’ report added that the most serious of the charges, conducting a criminal enterprise, is a felony that could put the former Republican state House speaker behind bars for decades. “Our investigation has uncovered evidence that Lee Chatfield used various different schemes to embezzle,...
Former Florida Governor and U.S. Senator Bob Graham served more than four decades in public service. He led the Senate Intelligence Committee, the congressional investigation into the September 11th attacks, and drove lasting change in his home state of Florida. He died Tuesday at the age of 87, leaving a striking legacy of achievements, and a large family he always considered his greatest accomplishment. Graham’s family released a statement noting, "Bob Graham would tell people his favorite...
A Grayslake man is accused of filming him and his girlfriend engaged in sexual relations without consent and then threatening to publish the videos after they broke up. Fredrick G. Warren, 37, of Grayslake, was charged with dissemination of unlawful video, a Class 3 felony, and unlawful video recording at a residence, a Class 4 […]
A Miami man was arrested after police said he allegedly beat his girlfriend's 5-year-old son for watching "PAW Patrol" because it was "for girls," according to reports. Miami Police told local station WPLG that Keyyun Bryant, 36, was arrested for an incident that happened at a home the day-after-Christmas in 2022. A witness told police that Bryant grabbed the boy "super hard" on his arm before telling him that the show was "for girls," a police report obtained by the station states. In the...
Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) On Friday, April 12th, the Florida Sun-Sentinel newspaper headlined “DeSantis signs controversial bill banning civilian boards from investigating police misconduct” and reported: Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a controversial bill Friday stripping citizen oversight boards of their power to investigate police misconduct. The bill, HB 601, instead allows local chiefs of […]
MORNING NEWSBREAK | S.C. Rep. Marvin Pendarvis, D-North Charleston, and his law firm are being accused of settling a lawsuit without a client’s permission and other allegations. He has not yet responded, according to multiple media reports.
A former St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office employee was arrested for domestic violence on Friday, April 12.
A former charter school teacher is under investigation by the Columbia Police Department after being accused of giving drugs and alcohol to a teen student.
A Florida judge denied the ACC's motion to stay Florida State's lawsuit against the conference on Tuesday, as dueling lawsuits between the two sides continue to move forward, and the league later said in a statement that "we respect the court's decision."
The news out of Florida this week might have seemed positive at first glance: Yes, the state’s ultraconservative Supreme Court gave the green light on allowing the state’s voters to decide whether the right to abortion should be enshrined in the Florida Constitution. Democrats were heartened by this development, as statewide referenda on the issue have (to date) passed overwhelmingly, even in Republican-dominated states such as Kansas and Ohio. The success of these measures in GOP-led states...
On Thursday, lawyers for seven women who were denied abortions and two doctors in Tennessee argued for a temporary block of the ban
Bob Graham, a former senator, Florida governor, and one-time presidential candidate, has died at 87, his family announced Tuesday night.