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Darryl E. Owens: GOP revolt – too little, too late to stop Donald Trump

Published on June 8, 2016 in Statewide/Top Headlines by Guest Author

From Congress came stunning news this week of a mutiny on the “Trumpy.” After Donald Trump recently judged Mexican-American U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel unable to adjudicate impartially a lawsuit involving Trump University, his latest bid at political self-immolation made Republican Illinois Sen. Mark Kirk want to holler, throw up both his hands. “I cannot and will not support my party’s nominee for president,” Kirk, the first GOP Senator facing re-election to rescind his endorsement. “After much consideration, I have…

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Hillary Clinton compares email attacks to White House controversies

Published on September 27, 2015 in 2017/Top Headlines by Associated Press

Hillary Rodham Clinton on Sunday again defended her use of a private email server while she was secretary of state, comparing the multiple investigations to Republican-led probes into her husband’s administration more than two decades ago. “It is like a drip, drip, drip. And that’s why I said, there’s only so much that I can control,” she said in an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “I can’t predict to you what the Republicans will come up with, what kind…

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Officials: More work emails from Hillary Clinton’s private account

Published on September 25, 2015 in 2017/Top Headlines by Associated Press

The Obama administration has discovered a chain of emails that Hillary Rodham Clinton failed to turn over when she provided what she said was the full record of work-related correspondence as secretary of state, officials said Friday, adding to the growing questions related to the Democratic presidential front-runner’s unusual usage of a private email account and server while in government. The messages were exchanged with retired Gen. David Petraeus when he headed the military’s U.S. Central Command, responsible for running…

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Jill Kelley back in the news with malpractice suit against former foreclosure attorneys

Published on August 12, 2015 in The Bay and the 'Burg/Top Headlines by Janelle Irwin

Tampa socialite and military scandal superstar Jill Kelley is back in the news. She’s suing her former foreclosure attorney for malpractice. Kelley and her husband, Scott Kelley, were having financial difficulties in 2012 during the same time Kelley became the subject in a made for daytime television drama. The couple paid $1.725 million in 2005 for an office building in downtown Tampa. By 2010 their lender, Central Bank, entered into foreclosure proceedings on the nearly 19,000-square-foot building. During settlement proceedings…

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