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...fire alarm learned of her son's plight from a text message he sent her: "Mom, I'm in trouble - please come to school." A second text followed: "I'm probably going to jail." She found her son in leg shackles at the juvenile detention center. Similar stories prompted Florida legislators this spring to adopt changes to their law, but most states have shown zero tolerance for change, Hink says...
Graham v. Florida / Sullivan v. Florida At issue: Whether life imprisonment for juveniles on nonhomicide charges constitutes cruel and unusual punishment...
...Reported to a new position in Florida less than 24 hours after being asked to run a string of bank branches in 1985. (Read "Bank of America Officials May Face Charges...
...about Modern Family is how many laughs it gets out of the most ordinary of its three couples: Phil (Ty Burrell) and Claire (Julie Bowen), overscheduled and driven by competing parenting impulses. She wants to compensate for her wild childhood. "If Haley never wakes up on a beach in Florida half-naked," she says, "I've done my job." He wants desperately to be cool, mortifying his kids by memorizing every dance move in High School Musical and asserting his (faulty) knowledge of text-message-speak ("WTF: 'Why the Face...
...awarded for pain and suffering--that Republicans and doctors want. Supporters call the caps, already in place in some states, a quick and easy way to reduce malpractice-insurance premiums. An obstetrician in Texas, where such damages are capped, could pay 20% of what a colleague is charged in Florida, where awards are unlimited...