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The University of Florida announced in January that it would provide health benefits to domestic partners of its employees, but the employees must declare in an affidavit that they and their partners “have been in a non-platonic relationship for the preceding 12 months.” A university human resources official said such a pledge is “increasingly standard” in domestic-partner programs; married couples enrolled in the UF health plan, however, are not required to affirm that they actually have sex.
On October 31 and again on November 1 judges in Sangamon County, Illinois, sentenced 27-year-old Jason Holman to fines and court supervision for traffic tickets; according to Springfield’s State Journal-Register, Holman holds the county record for tickets, having accumulated 188 of them over 13 years. And in Jacksonville, Illinois, in September 49-year-old Oscar L. Cushionberry was sentenced to three years in prison for violating probation. Cushionberry has at least 93 arrests and 29 convictions in the past decade; he’d gotten probation in 2004 for causing more than $500 damage to the county jail and he’d been arrested five times since.
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