Posts tagged florida

• Football Player’s Death Calls Attention to Depression Caused by TBIs

  Ed Normand | May 16, 2012 8:57 AM | 2 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  video platform video management video solutions video player This is an ABC News report discussing the death of former National Football League (NFL) linebacker...

• A Power Grab in Florida -- Special Interests and Political Power

  Patrick Quinlan | May 11, 2012 11:23 AM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  We Floridians are faced with a threat that is all too real. Something is quietly sneaking up on us, which before we know it could change our great State of Florida forever and not for the...

• Florida Supreme Court Justices Merit Retention

  Joe Saunders | May 09, 2012 6:32 PM | 1 CommentPinellas, FL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Every six years Florida Supreme Court Justices appear on voters' ballots for what is called a merit retention vote. This provision of Florida law has served for decades as a check to allow...

• Motorcycle Awareness Month Applies to All Motorists

  Orman Kimbrough, Jr. | May 09, 2012 8:59 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: Motorcycle Accidents
  

  I hear the same stories over and over again,” Jim Gladstone says in the video above. Gladstone is the president of West Coast ABATE of Florida, a non-profit organization that promotes...

• Parents Have the Power to Prevent Bullying

  Council Wooten | May 02, 2012 8:56 AM | 1 CommentOrlando, FL Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  This is a trailer for the documentary “Bully,” which was released last month and has garnered much national attention. While many people have an understandable tendency to dismiss...

• Majority of Work Zone Fatalities are Motorists, Pedestrians

  Ed Normand | April 25, 2012 8:55 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  This video from the New York Times was part of a December 2009 story about deadly accidents in highway work zones around the country. The segment above begins with the story of a 42-year-old...

• Aggressive Driving, Road Rage Have Similar Causes but are Different Offenses

  Council Wooten | April 11, 2012 8:57 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  This video features a WPTV-TV report about a campaign by the Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) to crack down on aggressive driving. While this story revolves around one phase of the campaign that...

• Hundreds of Parks, Thousands of Injuries Every Year in Florida

  Ed Normand | April 04, 2012 9:30 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  While last month saw far too many headlines across the nation involving school bus accidents, the video above is news footage of another type of incident that many of us never really think...

• Plane Crashed into Publix Supermarket in Deland Florida

  Ed Normand | April 03, 2012 11:53 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  A plane recently crashed into a Publix Supermarket in Deland Florida injuring the plane occupants and some of the shoppers in the store. A briefing is being held now by the National...

• ‘If We Save One Life by Doing This, We're Doing Something Right’

  Orman Kimbrough, Jr. | March 28, 2012 9:00 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  This public service announcement (PSA) features Grammy-nominated singer and songwriter Justin Bieber promoting the Drive Safe anti-texting application from PhoneGuard, Inc. The application...