Trayvon Martin

Imagine you were a space alien who just landed on earth. And imagine there was no such thing as race or ethnicity, that all humans were simply human. Which situation would be more shocking and outrageous to you? a) A......

Special prosecutor Angela Corey threw the book at Trayvon Martin shooter George Zimmerman, bringing the maximum possible charge of second-degree murder. Corey said she went where the facts led her. Cynics might say she went with the path that would......

As I wrote in my Sunday print column, the Trayvon Martin-George Zimmerman case has the potential to expose racial fault lines in this country like nothing since the 1995 O.J. Simpson murder trial. The latest evidence of that: the flap......

We've seen it before in Florida, and we'll see it again. A confrontation turns deadly, with shots fired under questionable circumstances. People wonder whether the shooter overreacted, and whether the response was disproportionate to the threat. In the...

Thirty-nine yeas, zero nays. Hard to believe that such a bad bill could have been approved unanimously, but it was. When the so-called Stand Your Ground bill went to a vote in the Florida Senate on March 25, 2005, the......

Polo magnate and air-conditioning heir John Goodman took the stand in his own defense at his DUI manslaughter trial in West Palm Beach on Wednesday. The fact he testified is indication that his defense, headed by superstar lawyer Roy Black,......

There's a right way and a wrong way to express outrage over Trayvon Martin's tragic shooting death by Sanford neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman. The wrong way: Offering a $10,000 bounty for Zimmerman's capture. That's what a group called the.....

On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson — No. 42 stitched on his back — trotted out of the Brooklyn Dodgers dugout and broke baseball's color barrier. On Friday, the movie "42" opened across the nation, recounting how Jackie Robinson, through...

One hundred years ago this month, Seminole County shook off the reins of Orange County and took charge of its own destiny. To mark its centennial, I asked you all to help me come up with a list of 100 things people love about Seminole County. Thanks...

So, how does Florida commemorate the anniversary of the tragic shooting death of Trayvon Martin, whose death following a confrontation with an armed and overzealous neighborhood watch volunteer prompted national outrage over one of our more...

Tuesday will mark one year since George Zimmerman shot and killed Trayvon Martin. The gap between what we all thought we knew then and what we know now is as wide as Sanford's Lake Monroe. Zimmerman wasn't a white man who gunned down a black kid. It...

The simple story — cops yawn when burly white vigilante stalks and kills unarmed African-American child for the "crime" of walking while black — shocked the conscience of much of the nation a year ago and touched off an explosion of...