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Labor Day 2019 will be on Monday, September 2nd. Traditionally, Labor Day is celebrated every year on the first Mon…

In 2016, more than 70 percent of Florida residents voted in favor of medical marijuana in the state. But when then-…

All news and media outlets have been taken over with coverage regarding the college admissions scandal, codenamed O…

There are a few things that are clear about drunk driving on Superbowl Sunday: There is an overall spike in DUI’s…

The house was supposed to be vacant, the owner says. The partygoers in a poor neighborhood in the District of Colum…

A movement has been underway in Florida to help convicted, nonviolent felons who have served their time restore som…

A defendant in Texas had his conviction thrown out on appeal after a judge used a stun belt — normally outfitted …

Legislators write the laws, and law enforcement (as the name implies) enforces them. But the role of prosecutors pl…

The idea of a cash bond system — wherein you can stay out of jail while your case makes its way through the syste…

A poll from released in February conducted by the University of North Florida found that a majority of registered v…

Why do we think it’s so important to aggressively defend your rights? Because of cases like this. A suspect in a 19…

A funny thing about Florida is that we love to change our state Constitution. Instead of treating it as a document …

What’s next after a federal judge declared unconstitutional the way Florida’s governor and a panel of his top execs…

A federal judge in Tallahassee on Thursday ruled that the way Florida restores voting rights to convicted felons  

Inmates convicted in Florida’s Fourth Judicial District have a new lawyer on their team, and she comes from a surpr…

Andrew Gillum, mayor of Tallahassee, last week tweeted his support of recreational marijuana.

In response to a t…

A 2015 report from the Norwegian School of Economics says it pretty plainly: Decriminalizing marijuana can lead to …

The local chapter of the League of Women Voters is asking the Pensacola City Council and Escambia County Commission…

Florida is one of just three states that permanently revokes felons’ right to vote, even after they’ve served their…

The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine has released a new report that recommends lowering the…

The United States Justice Department, under Attorney General Jeff Sessions, is expected to backtrack on an Obama ad…

A group seeking to put the possibility of recreational marijuana use before Florida voters in 2018 says it’s more t…

It’s legal to carry a concealed weapon in Florida, if you’ve got the right permit. But in declining to hear an appe…

The Florida Commission on Access to Civil Justice has released a smartphone application that helps Floridians get e…

Ninety percent of opioid deaths and 80 percent of opioid-related convictions in Florida involve whites, the Sarasot…

Orange County and Osceola County in Central Florida saw the number of first-time misdemeanor arrests against juveni…

The United States Supreme Court has heard oral arguments in Carpenter v. United States, the case of whether it’s pr…

Escambia County — home to Pensacola — ranks third for 2015-16 in the number of juvenile offenders charged as ad…

The limit for felony theft in Florida is $300. That’s pretty much the cost of your basic cell phone these days. And…

Is a car a weapon, like a gun or knife? Is it just a vehicle? Conflicting appellate decisions have led attorneys to…

The importance of proper evidence testing — and the importance of challenging such tests — led to a Central Flo…

Chronic low wages in Florida’s juvenile justice detention centers led to a bizarre system in which detainees were “…

At least 12 questionable deaths since 2000 have occurred in Florida’s juvenile detention facilities — including t…

The inability to pay bail doesn’t meant someone can be locked up in perpetuity, an appeals judge has said. In the p…

Thousands of cases still on the books after a drug lab chemist was convicted of stealing and using the drugs from t…

The incoming Attorney General isn’t considered a fan of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. But policin…

Nobody deserves to die in a prison’s scalding-hot shower room. But three years after that tragic death in Dade Corr…