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MANASSAS, Va., May 6, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Readers of Richard Viguerie's ConservativeHQ.com have chosen two lovely legal eagles for a third and final round of the website's best-looking female state attorney general poll. The original poll held last month let readers vote for their favorite among the eight female attorneys general, but no one candidate won a clear majority in a second round. Pam Bondi of Florida, Kathleen Kane of Pennsylvania, Lori Swanson of Minnesota,...
MIAMI, Oct. 12, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi spoke today at a breakfast forum hosted by Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, a national law firm with offices in New York, Miami and Los Angeles. Stroock partner and four-time New York Attorney General Robert Abrams conducted a one-on-one discussion with Attorney General Bondi, covering a wide array of priorities including Florida's challenge to the Obama administration healthcare law, human trafficking and cracking...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Feb. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Florida Society of Pain Management Providers (www.flspmp.org), The Florida Academy of Pain Medicine (www.fapmmed.net) and The American Academy of Pain Management (www.aapainmanage.org) applaud Senate President Mike Haridopolos and Attorney General Pam Bondi for their support of the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP) and their opposition to the recently announced attempt to repeal the program. These three organizations which...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Jan. 11, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Florida Society of Pain Management Providers (www.flspmp.org) commends Attorney General Pam Bondi on her appointment of former Senator Dave Aronberg as Special Counsel for pain clinics. The appointment will keep attention on the pain clinic issue in light of Governor Rick Scott's reorganization and elimination of the Governor's Office on Drug Control. It was this office that led the way in the 2009 passage of the Prescription Drug...
ST. PETERSBURG, Florida (Reuters) - Two dogs that survived Hurricane Katrina are at the center of a custody battle between their old owners in New Orleans and their new ones in Florida. Master Tank and Nila were owned by Steven and Dorreen Couture of St. Bernard Parish. When Katrina destroyed their home last year, they had to evacuate and left the dogs at a local animal shelter. When the Coutures returned five weeks later, they learned the dogs had been sent to a shelter near St....
MIAMI (Reuters) - Embattled former baseball star Dwight Gooden chose on Wednesday to go to prison for a year and a day rather than enter a drug rehabilitation facility after using cocaine while on probation, court officials in Tampa said. Gooden, a Tampa native who won the National League Cy Young Award in 1985, had been on probation since he fled from police after a traffic stop in 2004. Submission to regular drug tests was one of the conditions of his probation and he was sent to...
MIAMI (Reuters) - Embattled former baseball star Dwight Gooden chose on Wednesday to go to prison for a year and a day rather than enter a drug rehabilitation facility after using cocaine while on probation, court officials in Tampa said. Gooden, a Tampa native who won the National League Cy Young Award in 1985, had been on probation since he fled from police after a traffic stop in 2004. Submission to regular drug tests was one of the conditions of his probation and he was sent to...
MIAMI (Reuters) - Embattled former baseball star Dwight Gooden chose on Wednesday to go to prison for a year and a day rather than enter a drug rehabilitation facility after using cocaine while on probation, court officials in Tampa said. Gooden, a Tampa native who won the National League Cy Young Award in 1985, had been on probation since he fled from police after a traffic stop in 2004. Submission to regular drug tests was one of the conditions of his probation and he was sent to...
TAMPA, Florida (Reuters) - Former All-Star pitcher Dwight Gooden was ordered held without bail on charges he fled from police when asked to take a sobriety test, a Florida judge ruled Friday. Tampa police said they stopped Gooden on Monday because he was driving erratically. When asked to take a sobriety test, Gooden refused and drove away, police said. The former New York Mets pitcher surrendered to police on Thursday after an arrest warrant was issued. Gooden, 40, appeared in...
