Law and public safety

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 …