Law and public safety

Nevin Shapiro developed a Ponzi scheme in Florida and collected more than 880 million dollars over a four year period. 89.1, WUFT-FM’s Kara Van Hoose spoke with Lori Schock, the Director of Investor Education and Advocacy at the Securities and Exchange Commission. While Ponzi schemes do actually work at first, …

University of Florida Police Chief Linda Stump admits the University Police Department could have handled things differently in the shooting of UF graduate student Kofi Adu-Brempong this past march. As Dan Katz reports, one of the four officers involved in the case has lost his job. [audio:http://www.wuft.org/media/audio/shootingreport2.mp3]

The limit on the number of people the St. Francis House can feed in one day has been lifted for Sunday, July 4th. The house has obtained permission from the city to feed more people. St. Francis House will be providing traditional American meals for the holiday. This comes one …

Saturday marks the beginning of National Drug Court Month. WUFT-FM’s Lauren Walters reports on what Alachua County is doing to recognize this initiative. [audio:http://www.wuft.org/media/audio/3drug.mp3]

It’s been more than a month since a University of Florida campus police officer shot a graduate student at his “on campus” residence. Police officers claim the man came at them with a pole and a knife and was a threat. Even though some time has passed, the cries for …

Marion County investigators continue to look into the death of a 3-year-old girl killed over the weekend. They say the toddler was mauled by at least one of the family’s dogs in her own back yard. Dog bites are a real problem in the United States. Dogbitelaw.com says some 4.7 …

Over a five month period in the current school year four teenagers in Marion County have lost their lives while driving. All were students at North Marion High School, and all four of them died in car accidents involving excessive speed. As Kaitlyn Ash reports, students at North Marion High …