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• County sends teams to aid South Florida

  super super | October 28, 2005 11:08 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  A contingent of Osceola County public-safety and electric-utility workers is helping residents in South Florida recover from Hurricane Wilma.On Thursday, eight Kissimmee police officers left for the Miami area to provide security for Florida Power & Light Co. as the utility restores electricity in the storm-devastated area. They plan to spend a week on the assignment.Earlier, Kissimmee Utility...

• A rip in fabric that holds law enforcement together

  super super | October 28, 2005 11:02 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  ike many Americans, I watched with great interest, and with increasing anger, the recent beating of a 64-year-old retired schoolteacher on the streets of New Orleans. The glare of the public eye almost wasn't there. A New Orleans police horse appeared to be made to walk backward, apparently to block the probing eye of the TV camera.Unlike many Americans, as a former police chief and current...

• Fla. Physicians, Plaintiffs Lawyers Battle Over Med-Mal Discovery

  super super | October 28, 2005 10:56 AM | 1 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  A West Palm Beach, Fla., attorney has won a ruling declaring that the state Legislature's implementing law for last year's Patient Right to Know ballot initiative is unconstitutional because it fails to provide full public access to records on medical errors.The ruling is at least the second recent Florida circuit court decision in favor of medical malpractice plaintiffs who want to use the new...