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249 people were shot by Florida authorities in 2013, 2014

Published on November 9, 2015 in Statewide/Top Headlines by Associated Press

A newspaper has reported that Florida law enforcement agencies shot people an average of once every three days in 2013 and 2014. The Daytona Beach News-Journal reported Monday that Florida authorities shot at least 249 people in the two-year span, with 162 of the shootings being fatal. The newspaper reported the numbers after making hundreds of public records requests and combing through hundreds of media reports. Still, it says the statistics are likely incomplete because authorities don’t have to release…

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Loaded: Players with handguns are all over college athletics

Published on October 16, 2015 in Sports/Top Headlines by Gary Shelton

Is this college football? Or is this the remake of Young Guns? Think of it as a warning, but there have been three handgun incidents in Florida in the last week. University of Florida football player Deiondre Porter was arrested for allegedly shooting at a wall where his pregnant girlfriend was leaning. And USF has now arrested a second player, Lamar Robbins, for allegedly discharging a firearm in the hours after USF’s victory over Syracuse. Robbins is also accused of lying…

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Florida successful in heading off campus shootings

Published on October 12, 2015 in Statewide/Top Headlines by Associated Press

With recent shootings on college campuses in Oregon and Arizona, Tallahassee Community College president Jim Murdaugh has received plenty of questions from staff and students about Florida’s plans to deal with such incidents. The main thing he has stressed to them is that everything has been well planned. “I would say Florida has been progressive in these areas,” Murdaugh said. “We have had a heightened sense of awareness the past couple weeks but we have always been prevention-oriented.” Florida has…

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