Curt Anderson

October 26, 2016 | Daily Business Review

For a quarter century, Shawnee Chasser has lived in a tree house not far from downtown Miami. The 65-year-old grandmother who once protested the Vietnam War and nuclear weapons says she hates the oppressive feeling of walls and air conditioning, loves the open breeze and relishes the connection to nature in lush, tropical surroundings.

By Curt Anderson, Associated Press

9 minute read

August 03, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Criminal defense attorney David O. Markus denies the family of professor and law blogger Dan Markel was involved in the murder-for-hire plot.

By Curt Anderson

6 minute read

July 27, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Circuit Judge Michael Usan rules for a deputy asserting a stand-your-ground defense in the shooting death of a black man with an air rifle.

By Curt Anderson

6 minute read

July 15, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Florida cannot use the vague threat of potential budget shortfalls to deny thousands of prisoners kosher meals they request for religious reasons, a federal appeals court ruled.

By Curt Anderson, Associated Press

5 minute read

July 13, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Florida asked a federal appeals court to allow it to discontinue a kosher meals program for thousands of religiously observant prison inmates in the event that chronic budget problems worsen and other costs take priority.

By Curt Anderson, Associated Press

5 minute read

July 08, 2016 | Daily Business Review

The Jacksonville Democrat is accused of fleecing a charity offering scholarships to poor students.

By Jason Dearen and Curt Anderson

6 minute read

July 06, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Despite two intense days of negotiations, a settlement remained elusive in a lawsuit filed against the U.S. government by two women who claim their rights as victims were violated in a case involving abuse of numerous teenage girls and a wealthy, well-connected South Florida sex offender.

By Curt Anderson, Associated Press

6 minute read

June 03, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Convicting a police officer for an on-duty killing hasn't happened in Florida in nearly three decades, in part because officers are given wide latitude to protect themselves from perceived danger.

By Terry Spencer and Curt Anderson Associated Press

4 minute read

May 02, 2016 | Daily Business Review

The FBI has charged a man with plotting to bomb a South Florida Jewish center.

By Curt Anderson

4 minute read

April 28, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Cuban baseball players paid a South Florida-based smuggling ring more than $15 million to leave the communist island in secretive ventures that included phony documents, false identities and surreptitious boat voyages to Mexico, Haiti and the Dominican Republic, federal prosecutors say.

By Curt Anderson, Associated Press

7 minute read