Bondi Wants Private Businesses On The Lookout For Human Trafficking 
Attorney General Pam Bondi is enlisting private businesses to help combat human trafficking, in both the sex and labor industries.
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Bondi Wants Private Businesses On The Lookout For Human Trafficking
Charity Gambling Suspects Set To Be Arraigned
Dozens of defendants charged with running a gambling operation disguised as a veterans charity are due to appear before a judge in Seminole County.
Ex-Hillsborough Official Sentenced On Fraud Charge
A U.S. district judge sentenced a former director of real estate for Hillsborough County to a year and a day in federal prison for mortgage fraud. Anthony Haynes must also serve five years of probation once he's released from prision.
House Sends Malpractice Bill To Governor
With critics complaining to the end that the results will hurt victims making claims, Florida lawmakers finished work on legislation making changes to medical malpractice rules.
House Passes Texting While Driving Ban
The Florida House overwhelmingly passed its version of a statewide ban on texting, but a late change close to the end of the legislative session cast some uncertainty over its fate.
State Senate Revives Auto-Fee Rollback
The Florida Senate has revived a proposal to roll back automobile fees by tacking it onto an omnibus insurance bill.
ACLU Sues Florida School Board Over Gay-Straight Club
The American Civil Liberties Union sued a Florida school board claiming its delay in allowing the formation of a gay-straight alliance club at a middle school is a violation of free speech and equal access.
BP Lawsuit Money Causes Storm, Then Passes
A non-profit organization got a thumbs up by a Senate committee to oversee money recovered from Attorney General Pam Bondi's lawsuit against BP and Halliburton Energy Services over the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
Florida House passes bill banning foreign laws
A bill that would ban Islamic law and other foreign laws from being applied in state courts passed despite no evidence that judges have used foreign law against Floridians.
CDC report: Carnival Fascination got unacceptable health grade
Federal inspectors cited Carnival's Fascination cruise ship in February for flies, dried food waste and a roach nymph. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said inspectors with the agency's Vessel Sanitation Program gave the ship a score of 84.
State House rolls out health insurance plan
Governor Rick Scott slammed a Florida House proposal that would pass up billions of federal dollars to provide health care coverage to 115,000 uninsured Floridians in a watered down alternative to expanding Medicaid under the federal health law.
