Looks like the Florida Sheriffs Task Force's crackdown on underaged drinking during spring break was a success.

And by success, we mean craploads of arrests were made, drugs were seized, and fewer visits to the emergency room were made by underaged kids who had been iced one too many times by their bros.

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Good news, everyone! It looks like it's going to be a little harder for the government to vaporize you with a drone, thanks to a 39-0 vote by the Florida Senate for SB 92.

Sponsored by Sen. Joe Negron, who is the chamber's appropriations chair, the bill will keep local law enforcement officials from using drones to rain death from above without a warrant. 

Unless you're a dirty stinking terrorist. Then all bets are off.

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-No More Visits to Strip Clubs With Your EBT Card, if Florida Bill Gets Passed

-Florida Senate Bill Wants to Ban Bongs and Glass Pieces

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Hallandale Beach Police Department needs to be reaccredited.

And it wants to make sure it's doing its job well.

And so, it's going to you, John and Joan Q. Public, to make sure everything is hunky-dory.

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Florida Rep. Dennis Baxley has a fantastic solution to preventing another tragedy like the one suffered in Newtown, Connecticut, on Friday: All teachers and principals should carry guns in their schools.

Baxley, who is also the state rep who helped sponsor an equally fantastic idea that became Florida's "Stand Your Ground" law, is now supporting the idea that Newtowns wouldn't happen if only teachers were less Mr. Rogers and more Yosemite Sam.

GREAT HORNY TOADS! TODAY WE'RE GONNA LEARN ABOUT THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION!

*shoots pistols into the floor*

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Orange County sheriff's Capt. Angelo Nieves admitted on Sunday that detectives investigating the disappearance of Casey Anthony's 2-year-old daughter, Caylee, overlooked evidence that someone in the Anthony home did a Google search for "fool-proof suffocation."

During the June 16, 2008, search, detectives looked through several entries only from the computer's Internet Explorer browser. They apparently failed to look through the Mozilla Firefox browser commonly used by Casey Anthony, according to Orlando area television station WKMG.

More than 1,200 Firefox entries, including the suffocation search, were overlooked.

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Every few months the Florida Supreme Court lays down the law on attorneys who've been acting a fool.

Last time around the court doled out 22 reprimands, including the disbarment of five attorneys. This round is a bit more tame: 18 attorneys disciplined, including two who were disbarred and five who were publicly reprimanded.

People in need of a lawyer tend to have enough crap going on in their lives that they don't need the added stress of working with a shyster. That said, it's probably best to avoid the following nearby attorneys.

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- Florida Supreme Court Disciplines Broward and Palm Beach Attorneys
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The former director of boys' lockup Thompson Academy, Renza "Craig" Ferguson, resigned under a cloud of suspicion in March. Staff members had made allegations that he was transporting young male inmates off campus and bringing them home to shower.

See also:
- Our cover story on abuse at Thompson Academy
- Ferguson resigns under investigation

Now the lawyer who called to report those charges has filed suit against Thompson's owners on behalf of an alleged victim, with backup testimony from a number of former staff members. It details sexual harassment and inappropriate behavior by Ferguson.

Despite Ferguson's resignation and the pending closure of Thompson, the company has never acknowledged inappropriate behavior by Ferguson. This could force them to confront those charges in court.

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A kooky South Florida story made the big time in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, as justices heard arguments in a case that will decide whether Fane Lozman's floating home -- targeted for removal from a marina by Riviera Beach and towed away by U.S. marshals -- was a building or a boat.More »

Edward Crisante Jr. was, by his parents' account, struggling with depression at the age of 32 in July 2010. He was a Fort Lauderdale barber with multiple felony counts in his past, including many drug charges, but it was a traffic ticket that led him to his death.

After failing to appear in court for the ticket, he turned himself in at the jail on June 29, 2010. On July 3, he hung himself with a bedsheet in his cell. He was in a coma until July 13, when he died.

Now, his parents have filed a wrongful-death suit against Sheriff Al Lamberti the Broward Sheriff's Office, claiming that jail officials were negligent and indifferent to his condition.

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