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Former Fla. Senate president released from jail
Sun-Sentinel.com, FL -
11-14-04
PENSACOLA -- Former Florida Senate President WD
Childers was released from jail Tuesday after serving the final 11 days of
his sentence for breaking Florida's ...
Official's Body Found Under House
Tampa Tribune, FL -
Dec 11, 2004
PENSACOLA - The body of former Escambia County
Commissioner Willie Junior, missing since Nov. 9, a day before he
was supposed to ...
Florida
anti-abortion activist gets 18 years for molesting teen
By
Associated Press
Thursday, May 13, 2004
MILTON,
Fla. - An activist with ties to anti-abortion violence again insisted he was
innocent of molesting a
15-year-old girl as a
judge sentenced him Wednesday to more than 18 years in state prison...
Officials in Pensacola resisted effort to clean radioactive water
Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel, FL - Sep
8, 2003
About 10,000 people served by the Escambia County
Utilities Authority in Pensacola and Gulf Breeze drank radioactive water more
than twice the federal standard ...
Radioactive water flowed to thousands of homes
Scott Streater@PensacolaNewsJournal.com 9-7-03
Thousands of people in Pensacola and Gulf Breeze drank
water contaminated with high levels of radioactive material for more than four
years...
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Prison term will punish Childers and deter others from temptation ...
Pensacola News Journal, FL - 5-18-03
... But the balance is much harder to find when the
defendant is WD Childers, who did
so many good things, yet dragged Escambia County into a ditch from which it's
...
Ex-Fla. Senate President Is Sentenced
Guardian, UK - May 16, 2003
... A jury last month convicted WD Childers,
once one of Florida's most powerful
politicians, of bribery and unlawful compensation for an official act. ...
Pot full of money dooms politician
Miami Herald, FL - May 16, 2003
CRESTVIEW - Oh, that it should come to this: that WD
Childers, one-time king of the
Florida Senate, master purveyor of legislative pork, a rich and feared man
...
Childers'
Rise, Fall Has Been a Wild Ride - Lakeland
Ledger
Childers
gets 3 1/2 years in prison for bribery - Pensacola
News Journal
Former
lawmaker sentenced to prison - Orlando
Sentinel
Bass avoids jail time
Pensacola News Journal, FL - May 12,
2003
Mike Bass listens to his sentence of paying court,
investigation and prosecution ... the
Escambia County Courthouse Complex and its purchase of the old Pensacola
...
Sentencings set for Bass, Childers
Pensacola News Journal, FL - Apr 16,
2003
WD Childers and Mike Bass, whose lengthy political careers were
darkened
by violations of the Sunshine Law, will be sentenced May 12. ...
News Journal columnist
Pensacola News Journal, FL - 4-13-03
WD Childers never would make it as a news reporter. He
would rather talk
than listen, although one learns more by listening than by talking. ...
Childers
couldn't get the six votes he needed most in his career - Pensacola
News Journal
Childers
still could go to jail - Pensacola
News Journal
Colleagues
are quiet, glad ordeal is over - Pensacola
News Journal
Crestview ready for Childers trial today
Pensacola News Journal, FL - 3-31-03
WD Childers returns to his native Okaloosa County
today for jury selection
in his corruption trial. Circuit Judge Jere Tolton moved ...
Panhandle bribery case against Childers rests on shaky witness
Birmingham News, AL - 3-30-03
By BILL KACZOR. PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) -- The bribery and money
laundering case against
suspended Escambia County Commissioner WD Childers, once one of
Florida's ...
Eglin test a direct hit
Pensacola News Journal, FL - 3-12-03
... Force's 21000-pound bomb massive ordnance air blast, or MOAB
... The boom and shock wave
from the 1 pm test ... around here before," said James Jenkins, 25, of Pensacola
...
Test
of 'mother of all bombs' at air base is called a success - Newark
Star Ledger
US
Tests 'Mother of All Bombs' in Florida - Reuters
THE
MOTHER OF ALL BOMBS - The
Mirror
Results disputed in Florida school voucher plan
Boston.com, MA - 04 Mar 2003
... Judith Ladner attributed the closing in part to
politics ... Last spring, 10 more Florida
schools landed on the voucher list, including another one in the Pensacola
...
Childers bribery trial hits bump
Pensacola News Journal, FL - 07 Mar
2003
WD Childers' convoluted case took on a new wrinkle Friday when
star prosecution
witness Willie Junior's lawyer asked a judge to delay a Tuesday deadline for
...
Childers lawyer want to ban witness testimony in Panhandle trial
Montgomery Independent, AL - 07 Mar
2003
PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) -- A lawyer for suspended Escambia County
Commissioner WD Childers
wants the state's star witness barred from testifying at his client's ...
Childers trial moves to Crestview
Pensacola News Journal, FL - 19 Feb
2003
... A professional pollster asked 268 Okaloosa County
residents: "Do you know who former
County Commissioner WD Childers is?" Nearly 48 percent of the respondents ...
Ex-commissioner's trial moved
Orlando Sentinel, FL - 19 Feb 2003
SHALIMAR -- Suspended Escambia County Commissioner WD
Childers' bribery and money-laundering
trial will be moved to Okaloosa County from Pensacola, a judge ...
Childers trial set for Okaloosa, Junior still a question
Montgomery Independent, AL - 19 Feb
2003
By BILL KACZOR. SHALIMAR, Fla. (AP) -- Suspended Escambia
County Commissioner WD
Childers' bribery and money laundering trial will be moved to Okaloosa County
...
Junior released from area hospital
Pensacola News Journal, FL - 13 Feb
2003
... Complex. Ousted Commissioner WD Childers is accused of
delivering Junior
some $90000 in exchange for his vote in favor of the complex. ...
Florida Panhandle Facts:
Pensacola News Journal
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The Pensacola Bay Area
releases 41 million pounds of toxic chemicals into the environment yearly,
more than
all the industries of New Jersey
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1970 - Pensacola workers
made fifty cents more per hour than the average Florida worker
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2001 - Pensacola workers
make one dollar less than the average Florida worker
First Congressional District of Florida -
U.S. Congressman Jeff Miller
biography on his congressional website
Counties represented by Rep. Jeff Miller
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Escambia County - Principal
City is Pensacola -
People below
poverty rate is 15.4%
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Santa Rosa County -
Principal Cities are Gulf Breeze, Pace and Milton -
People below poverty rate is 9.8%
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Okaloosa County
- Principal Cities are Ft. Walton
Beach and Crestview -
People below
poverty rate is 8.8%
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Walton County -
Principal City is DeFuniak Springs-
People below
poverty rate is 14.4%
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Holmes County - Principal
Cities are Bonifay and Chipley -
People below
poverty rate is 19.1%
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Washington County -
Principal City is Vernon -People
below poverty rate is 19.2%
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Bay County - Principal City
is Panama City -People
below poverty rate is 13%
All Links are from the U.S. Census Bureau
Most favor
Navy-Marine training in the Panhandle
By Bill Kaczor
The Associated Press
Posted February 2 2003
FORT WALTON BEACH · Few
objections were raised to moving Navy and Marine Corps training to the
Florida Panhandle from Puerto Rico as military officials met Saturday
with more than 100 citizens, mostly government and business leaders. |
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Wynn Haven
Beach resident Margie McKay was one of those who spoke against the training,
specifically the amphibious landings. "It's noise and it's scary and I have a
pacemaker already," McKay said. "I don't need any more stress. It's not that
we're not patriotic people. We are."
Read the entire story
November 2002
Attention: Before reading the opinion piece below you
may want to ask young children to leave the room. It's mean.
This commentary was written by a Republican ex- U.S.
Congressman that had a dead female aide turn up in his Florida Panhandle office.
Read all about it
Commentary:
In this election, the D
stands for Dumb-ocrat
Joe Scarborough
News Journal correspondent
...Foreign policy fumbling aside, the Paul-Wellstone-Is-Dead pep rally put on by
the Democrats last week was beyond tasteless. In the end, the prize most coveted
by Democrats was not Paul Wellstone's Senate seat.
It was Jeb Bush's political head.
Read the entire Pensacola News Journal commentary
Joe Scarborough had a dead female aide turn up in his
office in Florida at the same time the media was covering Condit 24/7. The
"liberal media" virtually ignored the story. Which seemed a little odd
since no dead body was involved in the Gary Condit media coverage unlike the
dead 28 year old female aide found in Scarborough's Florida office. Just
more proof that Democratic politicians are treated differently then their
Republican counterpart.
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Another Conservative republican from the panhandle. And a good friend
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Jerry Melvin Florida
Representative Website
Jerry Melvin backed the portion of this bill that included allowing Florida
high school students to have guns locked in their cars while at school.
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