Jacob OglesMarch 28, 2023
4min0
Funds will be set up for service centers, overdose treatment and efforts to take fentanyl off the streets.
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Jacob OglesMarch 28, 2023
Jim RosicaApril 4, 2018
7min542
Despite a legal right to cut off the money, the Seminole Tribe of Florida has decided to continue paying the state its share of Indian casino gambling revenue each month. The Tribe “confirmed” its decision Tuesday night, according to its outside counsel, Barry Richard of the Greenberg Traurig firm, who participated in a conference call. The Tribe pays $19.5 […]
Jim RosicaApril 3, 2018
7min389
Despite increasing calls for and against a Special Legislative Session on gambling, the Seminole Tribe‘s lawyer continues to back his client’s promise to keep paying millions to the state. “They’re not just going to stop paying just because they have the right to,” said Barry Richard on Tuesday. That said, if lawmakers come back with […]
Jim RosicaApril 2, 2018
5min290
The head of a group that opposes casino gambling in Florida is telling lawmakers to take a pass on a Special Session for unresolved gambling issues. “If ever there was an issue that the Legislature has already spent too much time, energy, intellectual capacity and political capital, it is gambling,” No Casinos president John Sowinski wrote […]
Staff ReportsMay 24, 2017
2min390
Florida’s share of a settlement with Johnson & Johnson over adulterated over-the-counter drugs will exceed $1.6 million, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Wednesday. Florida was among 43 states that sued the company and its Johnson & Johnson Consumer Inc. subsidiary, alleging that they misled consumers into believing that they’d manufactured the medications in FDA-compliant facilities. In […]
Jim RosicaOctober 2, 2015
7min892
The Florida Department of Children and Families and private companies it contracts with to oversee the state’s child-welfare system agreed to pay $750,000 to head off any lawsuits resulting from a Gilchrist County man who killed his daughter and his six grandchildren. Documents dealing with the settlement, one of which appeared hastily hand-written during a […]