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There are just over 100 people in the world serving sentences of life without the possibility of parole for crimes they committed as juveniles in which no one was killed.

Less than four months before 13-year-old Catherine Jones and her 12-year-old brother, Curtis, shot and killed their father's girlfriend in 1999, child welfare investigators found signs that they were being sexually abused by a family member.

This is in response to an op-ed column published in the Oct. 22 issue of The News Herald .

The two men killed Wednesday early evening in the single-engine plane crash near Tallahassee Regional Airport were both skilled, licensed pilots who lived in Tallahassee.

Technology is no longer what it used to be: Computers have replaced typewriters and landlines are in rapid decline.

Racial discrimination threatens the mental health of black women in the United States and leaves them susceptible to depression, a study says.

Racial discrimination is a major threat to African American women's mental health.

Jasper, October 28, 2009 - Representatives from Duke Energy, AREVA, and ADAGE joined Hamilton County residents and county representatives today to discuss job creation and local economic development through ADAGE's planned biomass project in Hamilton County.

Attorney General Bill McCollum urged Florida lawmakers Tuesday to make it tougher for former felons to get occupational licenses for jobs involving children, seniors and disabled people.

Offshore drilling would pose relatively little risk to Florida's environment, according to academics and industry experts who participated Monday in a symposium sponsored by Florida State University.

'The world doesn't owe you anything,' says Don Robinson. 'It's that sense of entitlement that seems to be getting all these young kids in trouble these days.' Robinson, Jacksonville Area Legal Aid's Pro Bono Attorney of the Month for November, thinks a lot about today's youth.

Most of the speakers at today's symposium are from oil producing states, and that makes clean energy advocates question whether they are pro-oil. The institute's director, Dave Cartes, says organizers went out of their way to find objective scholars to talk about the logistics of drilling near Florida's coast.

Sir Ian McKellen, renowned thespian and gay rights activist, spoke to Florida State University's Pride Student Union on Wednesday Oct.

Mention that you need to start saving for your child's college tuition and you will hear the same advice from many financial planners: Pay for it in advance.

A public forum at the studios of 4FSU on Wednesday on whether Florida should lift its long ban on drilling for oil and natural gas off our coastline was good conversation and debate.

The Florida Supreme Court revised standard jury instructions for death penalty cases Thursday in ways the justices hope will reduce widespread confusion among jurors disclosed by an American Bar Association survey.

Gannett Florida and Florida State University are sponsoring Florida Forum on Energy Exploration from 6 to 8 p.m. today from the studios of WFSU-TV in Tallahassee.

Thanks to How Appealing, we can all read this interesting article by Lawrence Hurley in The Daily Journal of California, which is headlined "U.S. Supreme Court Considers Life Sentences For Juveniles." As these excerpts reveal, the piece provides a west-coast perspective in the issues that the Justices will be dealing with the in the Graham and ...

Computer users will be able to participate in an interactive debate tonight over opening Florida waters to offshore drilling for oil and natural gas.

Offshore drilling would bring 20,000 new jobs and $2 billion a year to Florida, or it would doom a $60-billion-a-year industry that draws millions of tourists to Florida's pristine beaches.