Rick Scott picks Wal-Mart exec for emergency management
Enough talk about cutting the federal budget. Let's start the job in Florida, beginning with Jacksonville's pork. Senators Bill Nelson and Marco Rubio want to move a nuclear aircraft carrier from...
View ArticleEreck Plancher trial: Player says O'Leary ordered trainers, water out
Former UCF football player Anthony Davis told a jury coach George O'Leary ordered athletic trainers and water be removed from the fieldhouse during Ereck Plancher's final workout. Davis was the second...
View ArticleEreck Plancher trial: Former team captain says O'Leary ordered water,...
Former UCF wide receiver Brian Watters, a team captain during the 2010 season, testified coach George O'Leary ordered water and trainers be removed from the fieldhouse during Ereck Plancher's final...
View ArticleEreck Plancher trial: O'Leary says he never ordered trainers, water out
UCF coach George O'Leary defended his actions during football player Ereck Plancher's final workout, testifying Thursday that he never ordered athletic trainers and water be removed from the building....
View ArticleEreck Plancher trial: Doctor says sickle cell trait can't cause death
Dr. Martin H. Steinberg, a Boston University hematologist, testified the suggestion complications from sickle cell trait caused Ereck Plancher's death was "nuts." Steinberg, an expert hired by the UCF...
View ArticleCould a nuclear crisis happen here?
I understood the theory of what could go wrong in a nuclear power plant. Seeing it go wrong in Japan is another matter. It's also quite relevant, given plans by Progress Energy to build two more...
View ArticleWindermere Police Chief Daniel Saylor asked statewide police group to destroy...
More than a year before his recent arrest, Windermere Police Chief Daniel Saylor asked Florida's largest police executive organization to destroy public records documenting his suspension for...
View ArticleLocal high-tech systems at work up North in emergency response to Sandy
After Superstorm Sandy ripped through much of the coastal Northeastern and mid-Atlantic states two weeks ago, hundreds of rescue workers equipped with high-tech, all-weather radios raced to aid those...
View ArticleEreck Plancher trial: Planchers poised to rest their case Monday
The family of UCF football player Ereck Plancher has called 18 witnesses, hoping their testimony convinces a jury the UCF Athletics Association is guilty of gross negligence. Plancher collapsed and...
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