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Latest Apalachicola Trials News
Political spending up; do big spinners win?
Apalachicola, Florida
A Florida judge has accepted a plea agreement that would spare a German grandmother from a potential death sentence. Marianne Bordt, 73, was charged with first-degree murder and aggravated child abuse.
October 17 2012
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Update: German grandma gets 21.5 years in slaying of 5-year-old
Apalachicola, Florida
APALACHICOLA - In a hushed Apalachicola courtroom Monday afternoon, a grieving father relived the pain of his young son's murder, and then watched as the boy's grandmother was sent to state prison for what likely will be the rest of her life. Circuit Judge Angela Dempsey sentenced...
September 28 2012
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County contends with rabies case
Eastpoint, florida
A case of rabies has been confirmed from a fox killed last week in the residential district of Apalachicola. On Thursday morning, August 31, at about 8 a.m. Lisa Hooker was working in the yard of her home on Avenue D in Apalachicola when she noticed...
September 14 2012
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Dr. Rose C. Kurz
Apalachicola, florida
Former director of nursing at Sheppard Pratt had co-authored a noted book on schizophrenia Dr. Rose C. Kurz, a retired psychiatric nurse and educator who had been a consultant to the Pan American Health Organization, died Aug. 3 of complications after surgery at Upper Chesapeake Medical Center in Bel Air.
September 04 2012
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Father of slain boy opposes deal
Apalachicola, Florida
A German woman could get a settlement without trial in the 2010 drowning death of her grandson.
August 17 2012
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Trial of German grandmother accused of murder postponed - News Herald
Florida
APALACHICOLA — More than two-and-one half years after the crime swept like a cold wave from Franklin County across the globe, the trial of a German national ... death penalty if convicted of first-degree murder and aggravated child abuse in the death ...
July 28 2012
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Ricky Polston to be next Chief Justice of Fla. Supreme Court
Apalachicola, florida
The Florida Supreme Court elected Justice Ricky Polston to be the next Chief Justice of the state's highest court. Polston, who has served on the court since 2008, will take over from current Chief Charles Canady on July 1. Polston hails from Graceville, in Florida's Panhandle, and attended Florida State University, as an undergraduate and as law student. He was appointed to the Supreme Court by ...
April 23 2012
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