Comment On City Room: Officials Pull Up Boat On Which 3 Children Died

The Westwood Civic Association is seeking input for the revitalization of the neighborhood business district.

One of the biggest black bears in the Florida history books was captured recently in Lake County, sedated and relocated.

Senator Hardie Davis will be the guest speaker at this month’s Pride and Progress meeting. Pride and Progress of Augusta-Richmond County is a non-profit and non-partisan grass roots community organization with a mission to “facilitate positive change in order to create a better community in which to live an work.” The meeting will be held at 7 p.m. Tuesday at University Medical Center South, 3121 Peach Orchard Road, Room 201.

Describing what it called a "damning indictment" of representation for poor criminal defendants, the Florida Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the Miami-Dade County public defender's office could withdraw from a large chunk of felony cases because of excessive workloads.

There's just a week and two days left in the 2012-2013 academic school year (even less with Monday being Memorial Day and with the early dismissal of our students on the three last days of school, May 31, June 3 and 4).