Ohio is postponing executions by lethal injection until at least 2017 because of a shortage of supplies, the prisons department announced Monday. Execution dates for 11 inmates scheduled for next year and one scheduled for early 2017 were all extended through warrants of reprieve issued by Gov. John Kasich, according […]

Tallahassee will be hosting a Constitutional Revision Committee preparation project. The project will be a daylong event that will educate the public on the upcoming revisions that are set to take place by the Constitutional committee.   18 partners including the LeRoy Collins Institute who are strong advocates for a […]

Oscar Pistorius, the infamous double-amputee and 2012 London Olympic runner, who shot and killed his girlfriend in 2013, was released from prison and placed under house arrest Monday night. “Oscar Pistorius was placed under correctional supervision tonight,” Manelisi Wolela, a spokeswoman for South Africa’s correctional services department, said. The Olympic […]

McGraw-Hill Education, one of the largest textbook publishers in the United States, is being criticized this week for referring to slaves brought to America during the Atlantic Slave Trade as “workers” in its 2016 edition of “World Geography.” Roni Dean-Burren, a 38-year-old mother from Pearland, Texas posted a screenshot of […]

A 6-year-old boy fatally shot his toddler brother while playing ‘cops and robbers’ in Chicago, Ill., Monday. The gun belongs to the children’s father, Michael Santiago, who was a former member of a gang and was in fear for his life. Joseph DiBella, the prosecutor, told a Cook County courtroom […]

Senate democratic leader Arthenia Joyner was successful in removing the Confederate flag from the seal that marks the Florida Senate. The seal is located in the Senate chambers of the Florida Capitol and replicas appear throughout the Capitol. The seal is also included on Senate stationery. Joyner asked the senate […]

Representative Gwen Graham, D-Fla., sponsored a bill called the Quality Care for Moms and Babies Act. The bill would build on the successful and bipartisan Pediatric Quality Measures Program, providing a much-needed focus on maternity care quality and health outcomes for mothers and infants. Graham, announced the Quality Care for […]

A 17-year-old male was arrested late Saturday evening, after unintentionally shooting himself while stealing a car, according to the Tallahassee Democrat. Tallahassee Police Department stopped the stolen car near the intersection of Miccosukee Road and Magnolia Drive. Arrested on concealed firearm and vehicle theft charges, TPD disclosed, “Two males were […]