Tamara Lush

December 09, 2009 | Daily Report Online

NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. AP - A Florida judge has ruled that the state must pay for a costmetologist to cover up neo-Nazi tattoos on a man on trial in a murder case.Judge Michael Andrews, acting on a request by the man's lawyer, ruled that the tattoos are potentially offensive and could influence a jury's opinion.

By TAMARA LUSH

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December 14, 2009 | Daily Report Online

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. AP - Florida's judges and lawyers should no longer "friend" each other on Facebook, the popular social networking site, according to a ruling from the state's Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee.At least one South Florida judge warned her pals with a Facebook status update that they could be "unfriended," and the ruling has prompted others to do the same.

By TAMARA LUSH

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December 22, 2009 | Daily Report Online

By TAMARA LUSH

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October 26, 2009 | Daily Report Online

ORANGE PARK, Fla. AP - Investigators had more than a thousand tips but are still trying to figure out what happened when 7-year-old Somer Thompson disappeared on her walk home from a north Florida school last week.At a fundraiser Sunday for Somer's family, children played in a bounce house as adults watched carefully.

By TAMARA LUSH

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April 12, 2011 | Daily Report Online

A video company paid homeless men $50 to be filmed while scantily clad women punched, kicked and whipped them, according to a lawsuit filed this month in a Florida court.Lawyers for two homeless men said the website www.shefights.net sells videos on the internet of the so-called "beatdowns," starting at $2.

By Tamara Lush

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October 23, 2008 | Daily Report Online

MIAMI AP - Unprecedented numbers of early voters in Florida and other southern states are prompting election officials to add equipment, extend schedules and hand out water and chairs to make people comfortable as they wait for hours at polling places.About 150,000 people cast ballots in Florida on Monday and Tuesday, the first two days of early voting.

By TAMARA LUSH

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November 15, 2011 | Daily Report Online

STARKE, Fla. AP - A 65-year-old man who was convicted of killing an Ohio woman and her two teen daughters was scheduled to die by lethal injection Tuesday at the Florida State Prison.The U.S. Supreme Court denied Oba Chandler's appeal for a stay of execution. He has been on death row for 17 years.For his last meal, Chandler ate two salami sandwiches on white bread, a half of a peanut butter sandwich and had coffee.

By Brent Kallestd and Tamara Lush

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April 01, 2009 | Daily Report Online

MIAMI AP - Federal authorities seized disgraced financier Bernard Madoff's vintage yacht and a smaller boat from two Florida marinas early Wednesday, part of an effort to recoup assets to pay back his swindled investors.The 55-foot yacht named "Bull" and a 24-foot motor boat were taken from marinas on Florida's east coast, said Barry Golden, a spokesman for the U.

By TAMARA LUSH

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June 06, 2011 | New York Law Journal

By Tamara Lush

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January 06, 2010 | Daily Report Online

LAKELAND, Fla. AP - In 2006, Abraham Shakespeare - a truck driver's assistant who lived with his mother - won $30 million in the Florida lottery. His good fortune may have cost him his life.Shakespeare vanished months ago. His mother hopes he is somewhere in the Caribbean, lying on a beach and enjoying the good life away from all the hangers-on who were constantly hitting him up for money.

By TAMARA LUSH

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