Food for guns trade worked in LA. How much chicken can you buy for a rocket launcher?

The Los Angeles Police Department offered for one day only a buyback program. Turn in a gun, get a grocery store gift card. According to…

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The escalating violence in crimes committed in Pensacola is troubling

The violent crime in Pensacola is escalating to a much more dangerous level. In 2009, I was writing about drive-by shootings. Shots were fired over…

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Body of kidnap victim found. Does Pensacola have a neighborhood gang war brewing?

The Pensacola Police report that the body of Torrance L. Hackworth, who was kidnapped from his residence early Monday morning, was yesterday afternoon found in…

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Pensacola violence escalates. When will it get its own mayoral press conference?

Probably not the greatest photo op for the mayor. These types of press releases from Pensacola Police Department have become commonplace: Christmas Night Shooting Pensacola…

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Sticky fingers caught with $18 million of maple syrup. Mrs. Buttersworth?

New York Times reports that Quebec police have arrested three men in connection with the theft of $18-million worth of maple syrup from a warehouse….

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Dead body indentified. It is a homicide

Escambia County Investigators have identified Alfred L. Watson, 28, of Pensacola found this morning as the victim of a homicide. Today about 8:50 am deputies…

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Schieffer: Too afraid to make world safer for kids? (video)

Bob Schieffer asks if legislators have become too afraid of powerful lobbies to explore ways to make world safer for children. Source: CBS

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Dead body found

Press Release: Escambia County deputies are investigating a body which was located in the woods near Wentworth St and Maxwell St about 08:50 a.m. this…

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More gunshots in west Pensacola

Gunshots rang out in the early hours of Sunday morning on Cervantes at the Travel Inn, a block west of Tom Ann Buddy’s. According to…

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5,740 Children and Teens were Killed by Guns in 2008 and 2009

The Children’s Defense Fund published earlier this year a report (Protect Children, Not Guns 2012) on the rise of gun deaths of children and teens….

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Woman tasered over trying to buy too many phones. Thank goodness, it was not in Pensacola (video)

A woman trying to buy too many iPhones at a New Hampshire Apple store and ends up being Tasered by police outside the store. See…

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Florida Voices: When mandatory sentence does not fit the crime

On Thursdays, I write a column for the website Florida Voices, which is picked up the Tampa Tribune for its community papers and other papers…

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