For some, indentured misery is a way of life
`They're not worth killing anyhow.'' With those compassionate words, North Florida farmer Thomas R. Lee summed up his view of many of the laborers who sweat and toil in his potato plant.
( 09/07/2003 03:01 AM EDT)

Memo to jurors: Accept no gifts from defendants
A true news item: Prosecutors in Miami say that three of the 12 jurors in the 1996 trial of drug kingpins Willy Falcon and Sal Magluta took bribes from the smugglers in exchange for a vote of acquittal. The U.S. Department of Justice says that it's the first time in history that one-fourth of a federal jury panel has been corrupted.
( 08/31/2003 03:01 AM EDT)

Fringe embraces 'martyr'
The man who did more damage to the anti-abortion cause than anybody in history is at peace with himself. Paul Hill, sitting on Florida's Death Row, says he's glad that he murdered an abortion doctor and would do it again.
( 08/24/2003 03:01 AM EDT)

A politician's worse nightmare?
Those of us who don't live in California are free to be entertained by the gubernatorial recall campaign, because the outcome will have little effect on our lives.
( 08/17/2003 03:01 AM EDT)

DCF's woes a full-time job
A year ago, an Oklahoman named Jerry Regier was brought in to run Florida's Department of Children & Families, the scandal-ridden agency that's supposed to protect abused and neglected children.
( 08/10/2003 03:01 AM EDT)

We won. Now what?
E arly last Thursday, hours before this column was finished, a U.S. soldier died when an armored personnel carrier struck a land mind on the road to Baghdad International Airport.
( 08/03/2003 03:01 AM EDT)