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NFL plans to increase security inside and outside stadiums

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The NFL says it will increase security inside and outside its stadiums for Sunday’s games, two days after the Paris terrorist attacks. Spokesman Brian McCarthy said Saturday that there will be more security and law enforcement personnel at the venues and in parking lots, along with other added security measures. A league statement says it has been told by the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI “that there are no known threats against NFL stadiums.” The league says it…

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Ben Carson profits from ties with convicted felon

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Republican presidential contender Ben Carson has maintained a business relationship with a close friend convicted of defrauding insurance companies and testified on his behalf, even as the candidate has called for such crimes to be punished harshly. Pittsburgh dentist Alfonso A. Costa pleaded guilty to a felony count of health care fraud after an FBI probe into his oral surgery practice found he had charged for procedures he never performed, according to court records. Though the crime carries a potential…

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NBA Commissioner Adam Silver suggests regulations on daily fantasy operators

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Daily fantasy operators, despite several outside investigations, continue to face serious questions about legality of industry trade practices under federal and state gambling laws. Steve Fainaru and Mark Fainaru-Wada of ESPN are reporting that NBA Commissioner Adam Silver has called for federal regulation of fantasy operators, even though he insists the league will continue its relationship with FanDuel – one of the organizations under scrutiny. Silver’s remarks, made on ESPN’s Outside the Lines, is the first from a major sports…

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Tampa Police Chief Jane Castor calls Times piece unfair, yet agrees to call in Justice Dept. to review citations of black bicyclists

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In her five-and-a-half-year tenure as chief of the Tampa Police Department, Jane Castor has received mostly laudatory treatment from the media and the community, even though there have been some high-profile misdoings at the department during that time. But nothing has rocked the department back on its heels more than the revelations reported by Tampa Bay Times‘ Alexandra Zayas and Kameel Stanley over the weekend that the department has been disproportionately singling out black bicyclists for infractions. Facing the media for the…

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Prison workers with ties to KKK accused of plotting to kill black inmate

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Florida officials say three current and former prison employees were members of the Ku Klux Klan who planned to kill a former inmate who is black. The three men — Thomas Jordan Driver, 25, David Elliot Morgan, 47, and 42-year-old Charles Thomas Newcomb — each were arrested Thursday on one state count of conspiracy to commit murder, according to a statement from Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi‘s office. Attorney General Pam Bondi’s office says they planned the murder after the…

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Pam Bondi goes to Nevada

Drawing on lessons learned after a nightclub massacre last year in Orlando, Attorney General Pam Bondi and members of her

FBI seizes Leon County School’s email server, working with U.S. grand jury in corruption probe

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The Tallahassee Democrat is reporting that FBI agents have seized the email archiving system of the Leon County District Schools. The FBI is working with a grand jury investigating how the district has awarded construction projects. The story dates to last summer and involves allegations between Superintendent Jackie Pons and a high-ranking administrator involving district funds and supplies. The Democrat has more here.

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Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein says he’s been working undercover for FBI

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From none other than Lucy Morgan: Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein, the Fort Lauderdale lawyer who spent the past five years handing out millions of dollars in campaign contributions to Florida politicians, says he has spent the past few months working undercover for the FBI. The admission, made in letters and other documents filed in a bid to reduce the federal prison sentence he will get Wednesday, does not identify the people who may soon learn they have legal problems of…

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