First year Florida A&M Law student LaVonne Idlette competed in the 2012 Olympics in the 100m hurdles Monday. Although she does not move on in the Olympics, Idlette holds a national record for the 100m hurdles in the Dominican Republic and is a World Championship Qualifier. She has […]

LaVonne Idlette, who recently completed her first year as an evening student at the Florida A&M University (FAMU) College of Law, will make her debut in the 2012 Olympic Games on Monday, August 6, at 10:05 a.m. (BST), 5:05 a.m. (EST). She will compete as a member of the Dominican […]

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Maurice Moorer is not the kind of person lawmakers had in mind when they gave Florida the broadest self-defense law in the nation in 2005. State legislators sold “stand your ground” as a legal protection for law-abiding Floridians who were forced, through no fault of […]

Cascade Park, the $30 million construction project downtown, looks like an abandoned archeological dig, but after completion, it is expected to become the city’s premier park destination. The park, which is scheduled for completion in spring 2013, will feature a large amphitheater performance space, more than 80 water fountains designed […]

CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — Colorado prosecutors on Monday charged a former neuroscience graduate student with 24 counts of murder and 116 counts of attempted murder in the shooting rampage at the midnight showing of the new Batman movie. James Holmes appeared just as dazed as he did in his first […]

DENVER (AP) — James Eagan Holmes came from a well-tended San Diego enclave of two-story homes with red-tiled roofs, where neighbors recall him as a clean-cut, studious young man of sparing words. Tall and dark-haired, he stared clear-eyed at the camera in a 2004 high school yearbook snapshot, wearing a […]

AURORA, Colo. (AP) — As the new Batman movie played on the screen, a gunman dressed in black and wearing a helmet, body armor and a gas mask stepped through a side door. At first he was just a silhouette, taken by some in the audience for a stunt that […]

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